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Posted by SK, April 22, 2008 - 10:47 pm

• Seahawks just cut Sean Alexander.  Dude was breaking rushing records and was the league MVP in 2005 and now he’s looking for a job.  With a fall from grace like that, his name might as well be Bear Stearns.
• It’s official - Jake Long will be the first pick of the draft this Saturday.  It’s possible that him, Chad Henne, and Mario Manningham could go in the first round, even though they played for a Michigan team that finished 9-4 and lost to Appalachian State.  Can someone say underachievers?
• The Vikings just got Jared Allen from the Chiefs.  Terms aren’t available yet, but the Vikings were reportedly offering a first round pick and a third round pick this year, and possibly more.  Pretty good haul for the Chiefs, with who Allen said that he wouldn’t re-sign with after his franchise season was up at the end of the year.  You’d think after the Herschel Walker deal that the Vikes would know not to give up so many draft picks for one player.
• Okay, if someone threatened to come after your family unless you paid them $15 grand, you’d pay it too.  Pacman Jones isn’t my favorite guy in the world by any stretch of the imagination, but reaming him out for something that any of us would do?  I call horseshit.
• Shout out to ESPN for putting together those draft steals and busts features.  Really goes to show you how much of a gamble this thing is.  And goes to show that Mel Kiper is a genius.  Not for his picks (at which he’s no better than me) but for thinking forward enough to pioneer the business of football scouting and mock drafts for people outside the league.  Now he’s a millionaire for doing something that any of us could do.  Only in America, folks.