Brainfart NFL Draft Reactions

Alex's Takes

• Tampa Bay has huge people on offense now - Vincent Jackson 6'-5", McCown 6'-4", Glennon 6'-6", Tommy Streeter (WR) 6'-5", Mike Evans 6'-5", TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins 6'-6".  How do you guard that?
• I don't like Clemson but Martavius Bryant went way too low. He is 6'-4" and ran a 4.4 40 yard dash! Mike Evans is an inch taller but a tenth of a second slower.
• Miami went a fifth straight year without having a first round pick.  Even with all the ESPN draft coverage and everyone knowing that most ESPN analysts will pick Miami to win their side of the ACC.
• It took 8 picks for a team to draft someone I had never heard of.  You can always count on the Browns.
• With all the hype around him and potential marketing windfall coupled with the fact that Jerry Jones seems to be a jock sniffer, I am a little surprised Dallas didn't take Johnny Football (TM).
• Smart trade by the Vikings.  If you want a player, especially a potential franchise QB, it's always good to get them in the first round because the team gets a fifth year option for the average cost of the 3rd-25th highest paid QBs.  Basically if you take a player in the first round you get him really cheap for an extra year than if you took him in the second round.
• I have nothing against gay people, but it was a little strange to see a recently drafted football player, Michael Sam, kiss another man.

Sambo's Takes

• After walking off the stage, Clowney was immediately interviewed by Suzie Colber and I couldn't help but laugh because he kept calling her 'man'.
• It appears only the media likes Johnny Manziel and the ESPN guys keep making up excuses for every team to draft him.  At one point, Jon Gruden tried to convince the other hosts that the Eagles should take him even though they have their QB of the future in Nick Foles.
• Manziel is smaller, slower, and has a weaker arm than the guy who he probably compares to the most, that being RGIII.  So, tell me, what is it about him that screams Top 5 pick to these panelists?  I just don't get it.
• P.S.  Franchise-saving QBs don't fall to the 22nd pick.  Manziel will sell tickets, but the odds of him ever playing a full season (b/c he will get hurt a lot) is slim to none, and his career won't last long enough to be worthy of a first round pick.
• Why did Cleveland move up one spot (from 9th to 8th) for a player that Minnesota wasn't going to take anyways?
• My favorite part of the 1st round is seeing all of these so called draft experts' mock drafts crash and burn so quickly.  Why do we even listen to them?
• I laughed when Barry Sanders came out to announce the Lions pick and his head barely cleared the microphone on the podium (see below).
• Sammy Watkins and CJ Spiller (my Clemson Tigers' two greatest offensive players in school history) on the same team?  I would say that is scary except that team is Buffalo and there is nothing scary about Buffalo.
• How silly was it to hear Ray Lewis have to say the name Ha-Ha Clinton-Dix?
• Is it just me or does anyone else find the puppet wife from the DirectTV wireless cables commercial hot?  Just me?  Oh.  Never mind.
• If you were projected to get drafted late in the 1st round, why would you ever go to New York and risk having to sit in the Green Room overnight?
• I'm mad at myself for actually checking out 2nd Round Mock Drafts, but was happy when they all blew up when Houston didn't take a QB with the first pick of the 2nd round.
• The ESPN guys talked way too much about hand size and it made me giggle even though they never made any 'hand-size' jokes.
• Dear ESPN, once the 2nd round is over, stop scrolling the 1st round picks on the bottom-line, it takes way too long to cycle around to the current picks.  Same goes for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th rounds.  They finally stopped scrolling the whole draft at the beginning of the 6th round.
• Do you know how I know Mel Kiper Jr is an idiot?  His 31st ranked prospect was drafted 106th overall and then claimed him to be a steal instead of admitting he is an idiot.
• The University of Texas had zero players drafted despite having Top 5 recruiting classes during the years that those players would be draft eligible.  How is that even possible?
• Where in the draft does a player go from being a guy who will have a long career to a guy who will probably be cut next season with the crop of draftees?  The 3rd round?  4th round?
• The Johnny Manziel Award (goes to the player who will be the most over-analyzed player in the draft) for next year's draft will go to FSU's Jameis Winston.