You know what really grinds my gears……less than one week after this years draft I’ve already seen 2009 NFL Mock Drafts on the net. You have got to be kidding me. This is absolutely absurd.

These rookies haven’t even put on a set of pads with their new teams and already the so called experts are starting to analyze how things will shakeout next April. There are simply things in this world you can’t predict and one for sure is what will happen on the field from September to February in late April/early May.

There are two prime examples of this lunacy from the 2008 NFL Draft. I can’t imagine the odds Vegas would have given someone if they walked into a sportsbook last April after the 2007 Draft and wanted to put $100 that the Patriots would lose their first round pick because of forfeit. Why such unimaginable odds? Well, prior to this year the NFL has never made a team forfeit a first round pick.

The “Spygate” incident simply won’t go away and as I’ve said time and time again during Jetscast shows, I’m ready to move forward. Matt Walsh, the former video operator of the Pats, will finally meet with commissioner Roger Goddell on May 13^th and give his testimony of this mess and handover any additional tapes/other items he still has in his possession during this meeting. Let’s hope this is the light at the end of the tunnel.

The other example is the Atlanta Falcons and Michael Vick. Same reach if someone had said in April of ’07 that the Falcons would pick a quarterback in the first round, let alone be drafting in the top five. The Falcons were forced to go through the motions of an underachieving season with Joey Harrington and Byron Leftwich after losing Vick to suspension in August and followed up by a 23-month sentence on dogfighting charges in December.

The Falcons were expected to contend in the water-downed NFC in 2007, but the Vick suspension came at the worst time just weeks before the start of the regular season. That left the Falcons scratching their heads after losing 2006 backup Matt Schaub to free agency, a player many fans of the feathered wanted as the starter due to Vick’s inconsistency completing passes.

Now, Matt Ryan removes any chance of Vick returning behind center for the Falcons, which many had still speculated Ryan has big shoes to fill because of Vick’s popularity in Atlanta and to chore of putting a messy situation in the rearview mirror.

So a mock draft for the following season is not a wise move considering the team that just won the Super Bowl, The New York Giants, were considered by many to be the weakest team in their own division at the beginning of the 2007 season and the mock drafts I’ve seen have our beloved Jets picking in the top 10 next spring so the free agent signings apparently will only vault the Jets to a 5 or 6 win season and no reason to watch the games.

And that’s what grinds my gears.

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