So, we are less than a week away from the 2016 NFL Draft. A day that used to bring me so much joy. Since i was a lil boy i can remember waking up early on Saturdays, going to the kitchen to get my large bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch(or Frosted Mini-Wheats), all while still in my tighty-whities, and id plop down in front of my tv to watch college dudes become millionaires, and dream of my time to do the same. Well the 1st round of the draft no longer happens on Saturdays, and eating cereal in my underwear just doesn't feel the same on a Thursday evening... it Feels broke. Nothing wrong with being broke, just aint for me. So this year we have some drama before the draft even starts. The top 2 picks have been traded by the Tennessee Titans and Cleveland Browns(respectively) to the LA Rams(soon to be dubbed the "1OAK All Stars") and the Philadelphia Eagles, respectively. And i gotta say I'm scratching my head here on the amount of reaching the Eagles and Rams GM's have done. They're reaching so much we might need to nickname them Mr. Plastic! For the Rams, i kinda get it, they're coming back to LA and they want to make a splash, they're also on Hard Knocks this season so they wanna be attractive, and hell this is LA-we like shiny things. But even more than shiny things, LA likes winners. We got a bunch of folks from other parts of the country that migrate here to WIN at whatever they came for and they aint got time for Losers. Only losers we tolerate are the Lakers and that leash aint gonna stretch too long if they don't shape up. There's just too much other stuff to do for us to support a loser. And the Rams aren't gonna be good, not with Case Keenum as their starter and the presumable No.1 overall pick Jared Goff is good, but he's no Cam Newton/Andrew Luck, which is who i feel you trade up to get in the draft. Not Goff. If that generational type player isn't available, then u stay put and draft what's there for you, or you end up settling for a QB like Sam Bradford who benefited from being the best available qb in a qb light draft...ooops, Rams already did that. And they traded away so much to move up. Good luck with that Rams. Y'all better make sure you put a HYDE in ur stadium too, cause if Goff aint the dude u thought he was, thats where most your fans gonna be during the game...or standing in line trying to get in. Then you have the Eagles, who gave up a GRIP to be the bridesmaid of the draft. They get to draft the QB the Rams don't want, and they gotta act like they're happy to get whoever it is. You know them dudes got their heart set on one of these dudes and I'm still finding it hard to believe a QB from a Div-1aa School(Carson Wentz) is bout to be drafted No.2 overall, in the NFL DRAFT!!! Who the hell has he played against? I seen the highlight package...every pass he completes, the dude is like open by yards! That aint gonna be the case in the league, and he's out there shaking them defenders left and right so all the analysts are calling him "mobile", wait til he's trying to evade Von Miller and the likes, can you say TATTOO? Cause that's whats gonna happen. And all the pundits are saying "Carson Wentz is gonna go to Philly and sit a year or two". What?!! Don't y'all understand that he's going to Philly. The same fans that boo'ed Santa Claus and an immobilized Michael Irvin...after Sam Badfor(i left the 'R' out on purpose) gets off to his normal Awful start, they're gonna be bloodthirsty for Wentz to get on the field...and that's not gonna end well, especially if its early!
The clear winners in these trades are the Titans and Browns, the Titans getting the edge cause they don't play in Cleveland. They've got their QB of the Future in Marcus Mariota. But the Browns came up!!! They moved back only 6 spots and will still be able to draft elite talent at the 8th spot. Plus they get Philly's 1st pick next year which WILL be in the top 10. Only hiccup i see here is the "Browns" have a Brown Head Coach(Hugh Jackson)/Brown Def Coordinator(Ray Horton)/Brown Off Coordinator(Pep Hamilton)/Brown Starting QB(RG3)...that leash is gonna be "shorter than a little person on their knees". Lord they better win. A Lot. And fast. Peace.
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