Live Blogging: NFL Draft 2012

Starting at 7:30, the OTWT will be taking you through the fun of the NFL Draft

The Andy Reid Coaching Tree

Check out Andy Reid's 2001 coaching staff, look at all of those head coaches on that staff. It's Bill Walsh like. 

Some NFL owners care more about the Premier League

The Bucs and Browns are a combined 1-14 this season, while across the pond Manchester United stands second and Aston Villa stands eight in the Premier League standings.

I know what some people are thinking, what is the connections between the four teams. The connections is simple The Browns and Aston Villa are owned by Randy Lerner, while the Bucs and Manchester United are owned by Malcolm Glazer (pictured right).

Both owners bought their Premier League clubs a couple of years ago under different circumstances. Lerner was hailed as a hero after taking over the club from Doug Ellis, while the Glazer family was hailed as villians for buying United. But both men have been turned into good owners in England and terrible owners of their NFL teams.

In England, both men let the soccer people run their clubs. At Villa, Lerner has Martin O'Neil. O'Neil is a soccer man and makes all of the decissions on trasnfers and any other on the pitch related decissions. While at United, the Glazer family has Sir Alex. Sir Alex rules United, he does everythign froom pick the players to picking the food at the training center.

Both owners are hands off in England, but in American its a different story. With the Brown, their is no clear figure head. Just this week the Lerner fired the general manager and it looks like their first year coach could soon be on his way out. While in Tampa, its also a complete mess. The head coach is two years older then me, their is no qb and nothing really to look forward to.

Maybe both owners should do what they are doing in England and have football people run the show and stay away from the action. One of the reasons that this works across the pond is because owners know very little about the soccer, but over here its a different story, both think that they know what is right. Maybe they should take a hands off approach and see what happens. In Philly the hands off approach of owner Jeffrey Lurie, seems to have worked very well for the Birds over the last decade. Maybe both owners should put their egos in check and do this.

OTWT Draft thoughts

The picks have been made and now teams get to see what they have selected. Here are some thoughts on the NFL Draft from the OTWT Scouting Department.
• Eagles fans always scream about them never drafting a receiver in the first round and this year they did with Mc9 and then got a guy to help take the toll off of Route 36.
• Another year another QB for the Jets and the New York Daily News sums up the trade with Cleveland and former head coach Eric Mangini: Thanks Eric.
• Remember Jet fans Sanchez only started approximately 16 games and that is not a good thing.
• The big winner in the draft was the state of New Jersey. Seven guys in the first round not bad for the Garden State.
• The Lions are in the process of building a nice little offense. Last year it was running back Kevin Smith to go with CJ now the lions add Stafford, Pettigrew and Derrick Williams. Maybe the Lions have figured this out.
• The Raiders should just pass on their first round pick. Hayward-Bay over Crabtree come on.
• Could Percy Harvin be the a new version of Randy White. A receiver who slid because of issues. Great boom bust player.
• The Bears got the best player during the draft process Jay Cutler.
• Glad the Bucs love Josh Freeman cause I think he might be one of the most over rated QB in the history of the draft.
• I think some NFL fans should watch some college football games before talking about their teams picks.

NFL Week 1: The Patriots might be done

The first week of the NFL Season is always good for some interesting talking points and this year it was no different, from the end of Tom Brady's season to the last second win by the Panthers to Brett Favre first game as a Jet, here are how some of the papers around the country covered the opening Sunday of the season.

New York Daily News covers Brett Favre and the Jets win over the phish.

From one Hall of Fame quarterback to another, The Boston Herald covers the end of the season for Tom Brady.

The Philadelphia Inquirer covers the explosion that was the Eagles offense yesterday.

The Buffalo News covers the Bills opening win of the season

The Charlotte Observer covers the Panthers come back win in San Diego

Cleveland Plain Dealer covers the Brown poor opening

The Cover Story: NFL Version

The NFL Season is almost here and that can only one thing preview magazines. Here are the covers from the different editions of the Sporting News NFL Preview.

Missouri edition

Rocky Mountain Edition

Bay Area edition

Arizona edition

New Orleans edition

Florida edition

Indianapolis edition

Wisconsin/Minnesota edition

Texas edition

New England edition

New York City edition

Pennsylvania edition

Beltway edition

South version

The Fat Man produces good baseball players

Two years ago, the offensive genius of the Fat Man at Notre Dame was being shown. Brady Quinn was throwing touchdown passes to Rhema McKnight and Jeff Samardzija and running back Darius Walker was running for touchdown.

Fast forward and who have ever thought that the biggest impact that this group has had in professional sports would come in baseball.

With Kerry Wood on the DL Sweet Lou has called on Samardzija to be one of the major cogs in the Cubs bull pen. That is a lot more then can be said for the other members of the record setting offense.

Quinn can not beat out starter Derek Anderson for the job in Cleveland, Walker is trying to get playing time with the Texans, and McKnight is nowhere to be found. At least Charlie can produce good professionals at one sport

Training to hold a clip board

All during the playoffs, Brady Quinn has been appearing on our television sets telling us all how great EAS is. During the course of his first NFL season EAS has appeared to help Quinn a great deal, a quick look at his stats shows that: 3 of 8 for 45 yards in the one game that he played in. Not bad for a player that some people called the most ready college quarterback to be in the 2007 NFL Draft.

I guess Quinn has to take EAS after his work out in order to have the strength to carry Derek Anderson helmet and the clipboard. I bet Quinn is really trying to get as strong as his brother-in-law Green Bay Packers linebacker AJ Hawk.

Quinn should continue to follow Hulk Hogans advice and Train, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, and take EAS Myoplex to be the best clipboard holder you can be.