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Day 3 of the draft.
This isn’t the sexy day, but it’s the day where superbowls are won and lost.
Day 1 is for the guys with diamond studs in their ears. Day 1 is for the guys who have Crystal champagne in their limos. Day 1 is for the guys who got cash advances for Rolex watches and alligator shoes. Day 1 is for the “playahs” the headline makers.
Day 1 of the draft is sexy like a supermodel, it’s sleek like a Ferrari. You want to caress day 1 of the draft, you want to get it’s autograph and stand at the red carpet rope and watch it walk into the club. You name your baby after Day 1. Day 1 of the draft dedicates a new cancer ward at your local hospital.
Day 3 is the dark side of the moon. Day three is players who bask in relative obscurity. Dead guys on your local obituary page have more name recognition than day 3. Day three is bologna and cheese on white bread. Day three is lineman who weigh 300 pounds and go to middle of the country U and run a 5.2 in the 40.
Day 3 is nothing else to watch on TV, but it’s still football so I can’t take my eyes off it.Day three is lunch pails and time cards and hard hats.
Day 1 of the draft is the flashbulb popping, breaking news alerts, stop the presses, bottom of the screen crawls, get me another beer enthusiasm.
The 1st pick of the 2014 NFL draft was Jadeveon Clowney. He was that man, drafted 7 pm Thursday night.
The 1st quarterback off the board went a few minutes later. Blake Bortles, QB from University of Central Florida went number three over all.
Johnny Football blew up the Twitosphere at pick 22.
That was three days ago. An entire news cycle has come and gone. Nigerian girls are still kidnapped. 3 people have died in a hot air balloon disaster. The West warns Russia to stay out of Ukraine elections or else.
3 days ago.
Jadeveon Clowney has bought three Rolex watches since then. Johnny Football has been married twice since then.
Now it’s the rest of the NFL draft. It’s the slop, the newspaper that wraps the salmon at the fish market.
It’s Saturday morning, and the kids being hired to play professional football are at home on their momma’s couches eating Pringles and waiting to see what their new postal zone will be.
These day 3 guys are the guys who will form the nucleus of the league.
These day 3 guys are where the diamonds in the rough are found.
Day 3 is the place where chips go to sit on the shoulder of angry college football players who feel they should have been drafted yesterday.
Remember New England Patriot Tom Brady, the 199th player taken in the 6th round? How many quarterbacks went ahead of him? Can you name them without googling?
Tom Brady still plays with a chip on his shoulder.
Day 3 is a day where some superstars are waiting to do Old Spice commercials and go to pro bowls saying I told you so.
Could Bama QB, AJ MCarron be that man?
It’s Saturday afternoon and lawnmowers are cranking all over the neighborhood as residents run outside trying to beat the rain.
My neighbors don’t care much about AJ McCarron getting drafted.
And somewhere, AJ McCarron sits and stews and spews and fires off angry Twitter rants.
All the University of Alabama Quarterback did was go 36-4 as a starter. All he did was get engaged to Ms. Alabama, Brent Musburger’s national Faux Pas. All he did was guide the Crimson Tide to National Championships. He does everything right and he isn’t good enough to be drafted through 3 days of the NFL draft.
“The process is frustrating and sobering,” draft expert Todd McShay will say. “He is told he’s this and that and then he watches the coverage and we all start talking about this kid missing this trait or has that mechanical flaw, and he’s angry, he’s frustrated. Some people told him he was a projected day 2 pick. But he wasn’t. And now we hear that some NFL GM’s didn’t like him in the interview process. But this kid is a winner.”
Then the best quote of the day comes from former quarterback Trent Dilfer. “It’s like dating,” he says. “But the question is, who is going to marry you? Who is going to commit to you. Lots of teams will tell a quarterback they are pretty and they want to date you. But the question is, who is going to commit to him.”
The kid goes to the Bengals with pick 164. That should keep him good and motivated.
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