Character Matters
I don't know enough about whatever it is Jimmy Clausen is or does to honk people off, but to go from being a lock top ten pick (and some talking about you in the top 3) to falling out of the first round is about a $30 million dollar hit.
Holmgren said, "I wish I liked him more."
And Denver trades up to be sure to get Tebow.
I guess nice matters. It is one thing for teams to consider a guy like Tebow to be chancy because he comes out of a spread offense or has weird mechanics. ( and somebody still trading up for him in the first round because they think he's a great person and great athlete)
But imagine all those teams passing on somebody who is supposed to be the most "NFL ready" QB in the draft just because they think he's an a$$hole. <g>
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
