A Texas-Sized Mistake
OK, I’m willing to go out on a limb here, and sometimes, I’m sure wrong, but I will take my chances on this one: the Houston Texans just made a Texas-sized mistake!
Who’s No. 1? Texans, Williams sign contract
I mean, it’s right here in cyberspace that you can feel free to check five years from now, but it says here that Mario Williams, who may or may not turn out to be a pretty good player, will categorically not be the best player to come out of the ’06 draft. If I’m the New Orleans Saints right now, I feel like I’ve just hit the jackpot, although as many needs as they have, if I’m them, I’m working the phones hot and heavy, hoping to drop down several spots and pick up another high pick and a money-in-the-bank player for some team willing to go nuts for Reggie Bush. Bush is a prospect that doesn’t come along often, and both Matt Leinart and Vince Young could be super-talents. Brick Ferguson is probably going to be a better pro than Williams, and he might drop down as far as seventh or so (though I doubt it); as many times as David Carr wound up on his butt this past season, you’d think that Houston would be interested in Brick.
I could be wrong, and it won’t be the first time, but today is a good day not to be a Houston Texans fan…
UPDATE: Chuck Klosterman agrees with me…
UDDATE II: So does Len Pasquarelli…
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
4 Responses to “A Texas-Sized Mistake”
I can’t help feeling sorry for Reggie Bush. Can there be a worse situation in the NFL then the New Orleans Saints? And it’s not like they really needed another running back what with Bennett and McAllister already sitting in the backfield. Frankly, I thought the whole first round of the draft was pretty bizarre. Matt Leinart dropping to #10? What, are you kidding me?
Don ~ May 1, 2006 at 11:13 am
hey, I hear my brother is beating you in Nascar. Is this true?
laura b. ~ May 2, 2006 at 3:41 pm
I’m sorry, but this blog is not the place to discuss such irrelevant things…
And not for LONG, you can bet, the little wump!!!!!!!
Byron ~ May 2, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Yeah well, I felt I had to mention it
laura b. ~ May 2, 2006 at 11:24 pm