By the way, how do you pass on Crosby and pick Medlock.

It’s easy when our jackass GM has a UCLA fetish that makes him pop wood whenever a Bruin (like Medlock) pops up on the draft board. Nice job, Carl.

The ironic thing is that Medlock was picked with the 5th rounder we got from St. Louis for Dante Hall. Medlock eventually ended up on St. Louis’ practice squad. So basically we gave away Dante Hall to St. Louis so that we could draft a kicker for them and spend a season watching Eddie Drummond botch returns. Absolutely brilliant maneuvering there.

I think Medlock was a better kicker, he just got a mental block, and a mental block is the worse thing for an athlete.

All I know was that Medlock couldn’t even hit his kicks in practice. Kickers have got one basic job…putting the ball where they need it to go. If they can’t do that, they’re as useless as you or I would be to the team. And if he developed a mental block that precludes him from hitting his marks in practice, what do you think would happen if you stuck him in a game where it really mattered? He’d be crapping little green apples.

I think we’re going to have to agree to disagree on McIntosh…I saw him give up on too many plays for me to think that he’s going to be anything better than an average reserve that you’d never want to start. I suspect that’s why Miami let him go.

As for Allan, I think draft projections are kind of pointless (actually, I think the draft itself is kind of pointless, but that’s another conversation). Production is what matters. It’s probably not fair to judge Allan’s future prospects right now, mainly because he’s young and this was his first year and he was fourth on the depth chart (behind Tony G, Dunn, and Wilson, sort of). But I think that the fact the team basically relegated him to the practice squad after one game and only put him in three games, despite the fact that Dunn was washed up and Wilson sucks indicates that at his current talent level, the 7th round was about where he deserved to be drafted. He might turn out to be better this year, given a bit more opportunity. Or he might turn out to be fit only for the practice squad. I just don’t think we can classify him as either a steal or a scrub until we see more of him (because you can’t really judge any draft class accurately until about three or four years later).