New Blogger (It looks the same to me) = New Post

It's been a while (again). I've decided that more often I need to write things down when I think them. There's been quite a few times lately that the sports guy has stolen my ideas but I haven't had the hard facts to prove it. That changes now. And, it's hilarious to read past posts and see how prophetic they have become.

On the main page right now, two of my previous posts mentioned Brady Quinn as a possibility for the Texans. How close it came to being true! Only Houston would have been dumb enough to trade for Matt Schaub before the draft. I didn't think about this before, but wouldn't it make sense to see if you could land a QB with the 10th pick? If both Russell (who I would have loved to have had) or Quinn were gone, then start working for a trade for Schaub. Worst case, you end up with hometown boy Kevin Kolb in the 4th round or Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith in the sixth! I might have bought season tickets to watch Sage play for the first half of the season and then Troy Smith for the second half. Schaub doesn't do it for me and it makes Quinn - for half the money - look like a pretty good investment.

Biggest winner? Not Cleveland. ESPN made too much about Quinn playing for his hometown team. He never said anything about it before the draft or after the pick - only when somebody asked him about it. After falling that far, he didn't seem all that grateful that somebody moved up to get him in the first round. Everyone could have let him fall right into the second. The biggest winner, in my opinion, was Troy Smith. He'll play for a pretty decent team and behind a quarterback that was a mentor to (2006 Rookie of the Year) Vince Young. Boller is in the last year of his deal and McNair is getting older. Smith should get a shot, but he'll have a couple years to learn the system with a QB that isn't bitter about training his replacement.

We'll see about all this. At least in a couple years, when I read a Simmons article about how Troy Smith was the steal of the draft, I can say I said it first.