The Truth Hurts

Ignorant?  Disrespectful?  He did call the Jets defense the best in the league.  You know what's been lost in the juvenile trash talk and sanctimonious smack?  Bill Belichick, father of the year, sharing a tender moment with his son.

Say Ow

His name was an affirmation of the game he played. Say Ow. He played linebacker in the NFL for 20 years.  Not quarterback.  Linebacker.  He played 268 games and made 1,526 tackles.  Maybe that was too many. Just three years after he played his last game, Junior Seau is dead.

Haters Gonna Hate

I think it’s pretty classy of Jim Harbaugh to make an actual apology apology. I hate the non-apology apology. You know what I mean. If I offended anyone. If you offended anyone? Why else do you think you’re apologizing, exactly?  As far as it goes, Harbaugh was right about one thing. Haters gonna hate. If you’re still tagging your tweets with #Cheatriots or #Belicheat you don’t need John Harbaugh to tell you to continue wallowing in your pathetic, red-eyed recriminations, sobbing and bleating “Why, God, why?”

Those guys are such a bring down.

These guys are a cool breeze.

In Bill We Trust

When your team goes completely off the board and drafts a kid that SI.com doesn’t even have a picture of, you tell yourself that genius is the exception, not the rule.  Maybe they see something in this young man that other teams didn’t.

Reaching

We knew the first two picks long before Roger Goodell had been showered with boos by restive Jets fans as he walked to the podium.  I guess we knew the first four picks – though not in order – as Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Trent Richardson and Matt Kalil were taken by Indianapolis, Washington, Cleveland and Minnesota, who looked into the box and found hope. 

WWBD

What would Bill do?  Or more appropriately, what will Bill do?  Nobody seems to know. I don’t think even Belichick knows what Belichick will do.  He has so few peers he sometimes has to play mind games with himself. He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, he prefers Dos Equis.

Waiting for 27 and 31

If judged by the commentariat in the Google Machine, one might think Bill Belichick had – with the exception of that flier on a certain Michigan QB – drafted nothing but busts as an NFL head coach.  This hardly seemed possible given the Patriots success during the Belichick era but other than a few, “I think if you look at other teams you’d find as many busts,” or “Nobody had a good draft in 2006” defenses of Belichick’s record (and saying you’re no worse than others is hardly a ringing endorsement), it seemed to be the consensus of the hive brain that Belichick sucked at drafting NFL-quality football players. 

So, it was with some interest that I perused this piece on Cleveland.com, asserting Bill Belichick’s mastery of the draft board.