Former Texas A&M quarterback and newly drafted Dallas Cowboy Stephen McGee apparently made a few enemies while in college and one of them was Texas Tech coach Mike Leach…who says that his A&M coaches didn’t much like him either.

When asked to comment on the Cowboys’ drafting McGee, Leach had this to say about the move:

“I’m happy for Stephen McGee,” Texas Tech coach Mike Leach said. “The Dallas Cowboys like him more than his coaches at A&M did.”

Well, it is possible he does like him and that isn’t some not so subtle backhanded slap at the young QB…but I doubt it. Maybe Leach is just bitter his QB Graham Harrell didn’t get drafted.

From Dallas Morning News Cowboys Blog

Friends of the Deuce made this hilarious video you should check out. I don’t know any guy that doesn’t do this but the guy that plays Mel Kiper has one dead-on impression of him. Love the wig and anyone that can make Mel Kiper cry is ok in my book.

At the NFL draft this year, one of these lucky fans above will have the chance to be hired for the job of a lifetime. It won’t be me sadly, I would’ve loved to have given up my gig as a low powered attorney for this job, but I guess it wasn’t meant to be. Anyway, the job is the NFL Director of Fandemonium and you can see what is going with it here at nfl.monster.com. Whomever it is that wins not only gets the job, they also get a $100,000 signing bonus to go along with it. Not too shabby indeed. As if there wasn’t enough drama on draft day, we’ve got THIS going on.

Here’s some video of the rigorous training that one must go through to get this job here as demonstrated by Michael Strahan. Bonus points for the electric football set…man I love those. I still have the one from when I was a kid. Now i’m gonna have to take it out and play with it all weekend.

Dear Vinny, Danny, Jimmy, et al.

Don’t do it. Its not worth it to start over again. Not at the price that will be asked. The amount of draft picks that you will lose this year and next is not worth it. You will be starting over with a new quarterback and no one else to go with him except players that all the other teams in the NFL didn’t want.

I dunno about the way you run businesses Danny, but in the NFL the proven way to win is to have a team that fields young talent that can do the job of older guys but for way less money. You draft players, lots of them, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Load up on cheap players, keep the ones that stick and drop the ones that dont and do it again and again year after year. Once you have depth and a base of young talent, you then use free agency to compliment the talent you have cultivated…not the other way around.

What I am trying to say is, cut this crap out and just leave Jason Campbell alone. His numbers from last year were actually quite fine. Sure he had just a few touchdowns, you would as well if your #1 WR was a #2 and your #2 is a #3 and your #3 should be retired, and your #4 and #5 rookies couldn’t get on the field. That and having no red zone target to throw to makes it tough to be a quarterback in the NFL. But hey, he also had just a few interceptions and a really high QB accuracy. Sure he made his share of mistakes, but so did the wide-receivers who couldnt run the right routes or get open when they did.

Plus, the line was beat up last year, kid didn’t have a chance with the overmatched youngsters getting beat like a dusty old rug. Portis’ second half numbers suffered because of the line play as well, its not a coincidence. The injured line was a huge detriment to this offense and for some reason, there’s no talk about trading up to grab a RT to replace the ineffective duo of Heyer and Jansen. How does that make any sense?

So, I’m begging you, as a life-long Redskins fan, don’t do it. Don’t carelessly dump the QB we have, who should finally be comfortable in an offense after playing in it for 2 years straight, for yet another project. Instead, get him some more help so he can succeed. Get him some linemen to block for him. Give him time to throw, time to grow, time to be the quarterback you knew he could be when you traded back into the 1st round to draft him those years ago.

Seriously, I already hate you guys for what you’ve done to this once great team, don’t make it any harder to root for the Redskins.

Florida State safety Myron Rolle had a tough choice, either declare himself eligible for the 2009 draft or defer entry to the NFL until the 2010 draft and accept a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University. While admirably he chose the latter, at least in the short term, his decision to not enter the NFL draft until 2010 will certainly impact his financial interests if and when he decides to play.

Since the NFL appears to be headed for an uncapped season in 2010, the owners could institute a Rookie salary cap for the 2010 draft. This would mean that a player, like Rolle, that was looking at being drafted in the top 4o players will receive drastically reduced wages, not unlike incoming NBA players did when they put in place their own Rookie cap.

Not to mention that NFL personnel memories are short and if you aren’t playing, you aren’t going to get drafted high. By Rolle going to England for a year and since he wasn’t a top 10 candidate anyway, he almost certainly will slide down draft boards and not get anywhere near the draft pick and thus the money he would’ve gotten had he come out in 2009 even if there isn’t going to be a rookie cap.

Neither having a Rhodes scholarship nor playing in the NFL is a sure way to making millions of dollars and leaving yourself set for life for sure. While the prestige of playing in the NFL can take you places (ask Steve Largent and Heath Shuler) a Rhodes scholarship can certainly carry more weight in one’s life after one’s playing days are done (ask Bill Bradley) but either one’s prestige can only go so far to pay the bills and that 1st or 2nd round pick money could certainly have been of some use to a guy as smart as Rolle. Then again, maybe I have no idea how much someone in the field of medical anthropology makes.

Via The Quad, NY Times Blog