Every year it becomes more obvious that either the NFL is a total, pro wrestling-style charade, or it is just run by idiotic, glorified gym coaches. The race question is what we are most concerned with here, and this draft showed again just how hopeless the situation is for white players. If you watched any of the pre-draft hype on ESPN and the NFL Network, you saw every "analyst" virtually demanding that Tennessee pick Vince Young. You also saw most of these same clowns intimating that Matt Leinhart's stock was dropping. Think about it; a superhyped black QB has lackluster workout performances, and scores an incredible 6 on the wonderlic test, yet his stock doesn't fall? At the same time, last year's consensus #1 pick, Matt Leinhart, does nothing to diminish his value, yet every jock-sniffer in the media parrots the mantra that his stock is falling, for no discernable reason, and their inexplicable prediction comes true when several teams with horrible QBs pass him by on draft day. Then there was Lendale White, who was this year's Maurice Clarett. How many negatives can one player have going for him, and yet still have every lame, wannabe comedian on ESPN demand that teams take a chance on him? This clown showed up fat and out of shape at the combine, then ran a Clarett-like 40, then it was revealed he had a torn hamstring, and finally we hear that he failed a drug test. What an attractive package! What is Tennessee thinking in taking this idiot? Norm Chow doesn't have the influence to get his star college QB (Leinhart), yet he does get his slow, plodding backup RB, who isn't even as good as Chris Brown or Travis Henry, backs he already has?
As usual, many teams made incredibly stupid picks and decisions on draft day, aside from their clear allegience to the Caste System. Marv Levy has to be completely senile; Buffalo took some safety about 10-15 picks higher than anyone had him projected in the 1st round, when they could have traded down with several teams to pick up additional picks and still get him. Then they give away a 2nd and 3rd pick to trade up and grab a DT that wasn't projected to go until about two round later. Wow- nice job, Marv. How about Minnesota? After actually taking a white LB (Chad Greenway), the rest of their draft was horrendous. This organiation handed the starting RB job to Chester Taylor, and drafted no one to compete with him. I guess Mike Tice wasn't the only moron there. The Redskins continued to trade future draft picks for no reason, in order to select nondescript black playere they could have picked later.
As for the lack of white skill position players drafted, Mel Kiper just summed up the Caste Position pretty well when he declared that Jeremy Bloom would make a decent kick returner/4th or 5th WR. When's the last time you heard anyone that fast projected to be a 4th or 5th WR? Unbelievable. Sorry, but Mike Haas has no chance. There just is no Matt Jones out there for us to root for.