I didn't type those words ... they were transferred from a story in the Chronicle for ThuunderKyss to read .... because he said he couldn't read the first link that I posted and had made clinkable. I was falling asleep when I saw the first request. He had said something like .... "someone on here, keeps saying that they had seen it in the newspaper, or somewhere, but he never saw any proof of it. So, I reawakened, googled several phrases .... until I found the one that I had posted. I copied and posted the article. I thought that would resolve the issue of (someone, somewhere, sometime, somehow). It was simply an honest effort to help others find the answer to a question that was plaguing them. This morning when I checked, others had liked or quoted it. Neither from TK. You and he seem to be having a devil of a time believing it's genuine. It's genuinely in the damn paper .... there are copies of it on this board .... at this moment. Whether it is true or not is up to the discretion of the reader.
I have watched Bill O'Brien and his approach to football and his manner of team building. Among the copious amounts of information that I research and digest, I see the lists of collegiate prospects that, in one way or another, O'Brien is interested in .... watching some closely, interviewing some, making some of them official preseason invitees. I could actually believe that O'Brien and Gaine, valued Tytus Howard as much or more than Andre Dillard. I can also believe that he drafted Howard a round too early as well Max Scharping. It's called a knee jerk response .... made to cover ones a$$, when they realize they've sh!t their nest .... again ! At some point, these errors upon errors catch up to them. They realize they are about to be publicly humiliated .... by being fired. It is not the loss of money that they fear .... they've got plenty. It is the thought of public .. humiliation that frightens them to death .... after all, everyone thinks of them as "the smartest guy in the room"! They can't bear to face that, so they mortgage the farm, to get the talent that others have amassed ... providing they have a forgiving General Manager. Most of us here, love and look forward to the annual NFL Draft.Some of us make it a hobby. Others find it a burden or a distraction. Some dread it so much, they try to avoid it. If it is in their job description, and they hate, dread, even fear it, they will try to avoid it. Some of those folks are lucky, in so much as, they could actually hire a "Director of Player Personnel" if they are blessed with a sympathetic GM ! "Alas .... conscience doth make cowards of us all" .... Hamlet .... by Slick Willie !