No comment today on the Sox taking 2 out of 3 from the Yanks in the Bronx...it's no fun kicking a dog when it's already lying down. I mean, Julian Tavarez got a win for Christ's sake! Karma will rear it's head at some point this season, trust me, the Yanks will be in the running for the East, as usual. So, that was 3 sentences about something that I said I had no comment on...wow, the coffee is really working this morning!
So the NFL draft was this weekend, of course, and once again the Pats seemed more interested in stockpiling draft picks and proving how smart Belichick and Pioli think they are. First round pick Brandon Meriweather definitely fills a need and was a good pick, all character issues aside. Maybe they just drafted him to stomp on Eric Mangini if there ever was a brawl. What I don't understand is New England trading away their other 1st round pick when they definitely had another need to fill. Maybe they'll just keep trading picks until they end up with 30 first round picks in the year 2016. Their linebacking corps is getting old and could have been improved with the addition of a player like Paul Posluzsny, who has all the makings of the next Mike Vrabel. Seeing him go to division rival Buffalo could be a painful mistake for the P-Men.
A big part of the draft festivities, of course, was the trade for Randy Moss. They didn't have to pay a very steep price to get him, who'd have thought 5 years ago that Moss trade value would be equal to that of Josh McCown and Mike Williams (traded to the Raiders for a 4th round pick)? I'm not worried about Moss' attitude, he genuinely wants to win, but he doesn't seem to be a fit for what the Patriots try to do on offense. They have never been a team that throws a lot of deep passes, and that is all Moss is able to do. Granted, they have never had a deep threat like Moss, but isn't that why they signed Donte' Stallworth? The biggest knock on the group of wideouts that the Patriots had this past season was that none of them were able to establish any sort of chemistry with Tom Brady...well, there's NO way that Moss will ever develop that relationship. He won't go over the middle, he'll take plays off if he's not the main target, and he just doesn't run any crisp patterns. Moss will have a few good games here and there, but he alone does not suddenly make the Patriots Super Bowl favorites...sad to say, but Wes Welker will probably end up leading the team in receptions this year.
Also, I do need to say kudos to the Vikings for grabbing Adrian Peterson with their top draft pick. I was terrified they were going to select the un-mighty Quinn, but it looks like they are committed to the 2nd year guy Tarvaris Jackson at QB. Peterson and Taylor will give the Vikings one of the strongest running games in all the league...if their passing game can catch up, they could challenge the Bears in the NFC Norris this fall. I would have preferred Dwayne Jarrett or Steve Smith to Sidney Rice though, I don't trust underclassmen receivers out of South Carolina...paging Troy Williamson! (The only good thing about Williamson is, unlike the rest of the Vikings, you know he'll never commit a crime, because if he got sent to jail, he'd be so worried about Bogs that he would constantly be dropping the soap in the shower.) And on that horribly lame joke, I'm out like Jeff Karstens' leg.
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