Number 1 Overall

Later today Sam Bradford is going to be a number one overall pick most likely by the St. Louis Rams. If you are a fan of the Rams you should prepare yourselves for years of disappointment. However the Detroit Lions are about to fall into one of the great draft picks of all-time. I'm talking Michael Jordan to the Bulls kind of luck. Ndamukong Suh will be the best player of the draft and likely will be considered the best draft pick ever.

Look Bradford appears to have all of the measureables and he has proven on the field that he is a winner. Unfortunately he has also proven on the field that he is an injury risk. Look, Oklahoma is so much more talented then 90% of the teams thast they play that  he should have a successful career in college. His O-Line is big and better then most of the defenses that he plays

If you were to list the best QB's of all-time, I'm talking the top 50, you will be hard pressed to find a Quarterback that came from an overly talented college team. In fact, other than Peyton Manning, name one premiere QB over the last twenty-five years that came from a national powerhouse.

Brady was a backup at Michigan, Brees played at Purdue. Who else you got? Elway? Stanford. There just aren't any. Why? Because in order to be successful in the NFL you have to be able to react quickly and under pressure. Think about one of the most consistent stats used in the NFL to separate the decent from the All-Pro...fourth quarter comebacks. Matt Leinart never had to do that at USC and when he was called on to do it...they lost to Texas. Please don't tell me that he brought the Trojans back against Notre Dame. Lets face it that game was one of those, "Oh, my gosh we drank WAYYY too much last night and now we might lose to Brady Quinn? Hey Reggie, push me in the back," kinda games.

Reaction, composer and accuracy are the key to becoming a successful leader of an NFL franchise and successful QB's typically learn those attributes while they're getting beat up in college. Ask Danny Wuerffel or Josh Heupel whether or not they felt prepared for the NFL.

Oh, please don't tell me that his workout was the best anyone has seen since Troy Aikman. That's just stupid. You wanna know who had a better Pro Day than Troy Aikman? The first pick overall the after Troy was selected first overall. Any guesses? Yep, that's right Porno-stache Jeff George. Would you like to know the most impressive QB was at a Pro Day in the last twenty years? Rob Johnson. He looked great in shorts. One because he didn't have to react quickly to NFL caliber defenses and secondly because he's super, super dreamy. Oops, what? I mean he was throwing to ultra-slow and over rated Keyshawn Johnson.

Would you like to know who looked terrible in their Pro Days? Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Drew Brees, hell, Kurt Warner never had one.

I'll bet that Jimmy Clausen is going to be a better Pro than Sam Bradford for the aforementioned reasons.

If I were running the Rams I'd take the Mean Joe Greene, Ndamukong Suh and wait until next year for Jake Locker. It worked for the Steelers in the seventies and as always that's good enough for me.