Barbara’s Quick Reference Viewers’ NLF Draft Guide

 Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

Mary McGrory

All 32 Teams’ Draft Needs and Thumbnail reviews of the top prospects.

And the next Devin Hester Is…

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa

Sounds like Frank, doesn’t it?
 
Breaking down Special Teams:  rookie return men, kickers, punters – even a Long Snapper!

Cover 2, Tampa 2, Shell, Zone, Man: No matter what you call it, you need the DB’s.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one’s existence. I don’t want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children

Safeties and Cornerbacks of 2011.  Breaking down the Rookie Class.

Need to annihilate a QB? Plant a RB? Linebackers are the guys for you!

I think you should perform the same way every time. If fans are what motivates you, then so be it. I just want to win. That’s what motivates me.

Quarterback Geno Smith

Check out this year’s class of Rookie Linebackers.

Will we see the next Kris Jenkins or Jared Allen? 2011 Rookie Linemen

 At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
George Plimpton

3-4 or 4-3 – they’re Big, they’re Powerful, they’re Defensive Linemen!

Centers and Tackles and Guards – oh my!

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard, New York Times

Checking out the rookie class of Offensive Linemen.

TE’s and FB’s “Grow” into their jobs – 2011 Rookies

A winner never whines.

Paul Brown

Does this mean there’s no whining in football?

Who is the next Tony Gonzalez or Leonard Weaver?

Totin’ the Rock: Thumbnails on the rookie running backs.

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde

Only one probable first-rounder, but a few possible values.

They thrill us – and make us shake our heads: 2011 Wide Receivers

I want to enjoy the full pleasure of our victory, but then turn to new things I hope to achieve in football.

Ronoldo

Ladies and Gentlemen – the Egos… uh, I mean….Wide Receivers!

All those teams without a QB? Here are your choices – Yikes!

You guys line up alphabetically by height.
Bill Peterson

Well, sometimes the Draft is just about that confusing.   Especially when it comes to picking a quarterback.

Teams may be begging Brett and Kurt to give it one more try – the 2011 Quarterback Class.

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