![]() As the Beach Boys sang, I’d be alone, in my room, where I could do my sighing and my crying, laugh at yesterday, and lock out all my worries and my fears. If I were a top quarterback prospect, or an actor or actress up for an Oscar, no chance I’d have cameras on me. Watching Levis, my thoughts were confirmed. ![]() …Īlas, if only the Judases could have moved up to draft Health. The draft is the athletic equivalent of first marriages. They need a back.īut everybody needs somebody. He’s still under contract, and he’s said he would be willing to return to Inglewood. Sorry, I am a tailback guy, so I’m wondering about the Judases and Austin Ekeler, who had demanded a trade due a contract squabble. The J’s haven’t been able to return punts since they played in Balboa Stadium.Īnyway, the thing I liked the best about the first round was that two running backs - Texas’ Bijan Robinson (8) and Alabama’s Jahmyr Gibbs (12) - were among the first dozen picks. I am intrigued by another TCU receiver, speed merchant Derius Davis, their fourth-round pick, who may be the best punt returner in the draft. The Judases then went for USC edge rusher Tuli Tuipulotu, the only Trojan who could tackle and the national leader in sacks (13½), in the second round, and in the third chose mobile Washington State linebacker Daiyan Henley. No idea how he’ll do - no idea how anyone will do - which is the beauty of this crapshoot. ![]() Meanwhile, the NFL Team That Used To Be Here used their first-round pick on a big, fast receiver, TCU’s Quentin Johnston, to perhaps help Justin Herbert throw the ball more than 20 yards downfield. If he’s really good, he will make many, many millions the second time around, anyway. Hopefully there will be everlasting love. ![]() And all along his girlfriend made faces as though she were not the second-round type.īut Will went close enough, at 33 overall, when the Titans moved up to get him. Will sat in his seat through the entire first round squirming as though he had a bad rash as three QBs went ahead of him. Tennessee QB Will Levis went from 60-1 odds to be the first overall pick a few months ago to 4-1 last Wednesday. If Lamar was leaving, it was for Nowheresville. On Thursday, after an extended hair pull, Baltimore settled with protean quarterback and former MVP Lamar Jackson, so nothing was going to happen there to affect the draft. did (which since has paid the price), and I don’t see them getting a ring in a conference with the greatest assemblage of QB talent since Rockne threw to Gus Dorais. The Jets have talent, but not as much as L.A. They’re going the Rams Way, hawking their future for an aging quarterback in hopes of winning a Super Bowl. I won’t get into everything the Jets gave up for Rodgers, but let’s say it was too much. ![]() 2 overall on QB Zach Wilson, a team willing to go all Daniel Webster and sell its soul for a 39-year-old who won his only Super Bowl 15 years ago. To the football team Dan Jenkins lovingly referred to as the Dog Ass Jets.Īnd so that’s how NFL Draft Week began, with a four-time MVP quarterback, one of the best to do it, leaving where he’d spent all 18 years of his career for a franchise that hadn’t won anything in more than a half century. ![]()
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