Ten Things I Think I Think

	Roger Goodell received high marks after last week's annual meetings in Arizona. Al Messerschmidt/WireImage.com
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1. I think I heard raves about Roger Goodell's handling of the ownership, coaching and football masses at the meetings, particularly in the general sessions in the ballroom at the Arizona Biltmore. "In the last four or five years,'' one owner who was a big fan of Paul Tagliabue told me, "Paul had become a little bit dismissive and impatient with some of the guys in the room. I only saw Roger get impatient once -- with [Cincinnati owner] Mike Brown, and even then it seemed like he took a deep breath and just moved on. As good as Paul was running this league and running these meetings, I think it was time for a change, and what we saw [in Phoenix] showed that. Now he's going to have to figure out a way to take some of the clubs that felt disenfranchised with the last labor agreement and bring them back into the fold.''

2. I think it sounds like Pacman Jones will get whacked about eight games after Goodell meets with him this week, and eight more after his role in the Las Vegas strip-club case is fleshed out. Either way, I don't see him suiting up for any team until 2008.

3. I think the most impressive rookie in the NFL in 2007 might well be Lane Kiffin, the 31-year-old coach of the Raiders. My first read on Kiffin: He's a slightly lighter-on-the-ego Jon Gruden. Sitting with him the other day in Phoenix, I got the strong impression that Al Davis, in the end, was actually happy that Steve Sarkisian turned down the job so that Kiffin could take it. "The way I handled the interview with Mr. Davis,'' Kiffin said, "is I was going to go in, fire away, and be who I am. I wasn't going to go in there and say just what he wanted to hear. And I felt there had to be a culture change with the Raiders ... with some people being removed.'' When Sean Payton interviewed for the job three years ago and suggested some coaching changes to Davis, Payton recalls being told receivers Fred Biletnikoff was going nowhere, for instance; with the Kiffin hire, not only did Biletnikoff "retire,'' but 16 coaching positions on the staff were changed. If I were Randy Moss, I'd be in Davis' office, telling him, "Don't trade me. Pick JaMarcus Russell, and let us make beautiful music together for the next three or four years.'' Listening to Kiffin, I get the strong feeling he'd center the offense around reviving the careers of Moss and Jerry Porter and turn Russell into Daryle Lamonica. One last thing about Kiffin: He gives as much credit to Pete Carroll as I've heard any rookie head coach give a mentor. "Pete coached me to be a head coach,'' he said. "He coaches the coaches like he coaches the players. I wouldn't trade my six years at USC for 20 years anywhere else.''

4. I think I get the feeling that common sense be damned, Davis is going to pick Georgia Tech wide receiver Calvin Johnson first overall, and I'm not the only one. The Lions think that too.

5. I think this is my Leftover Scene of the Week from the league meetings: Wednesday morning, around 8:50, just off the back of the lobby, sat a cadre of Buffalo Bills braintrust -- owner Ralph Wilson, GM Marv Levy, coach Dick Jauron, and vice president of business administration Jim Overdorf. "We've got to be able to stop the run,'' Wilson said to the group as I walked past. "Are we going to be able to stop the run?'' I didn't wait to hear the reply, but I thought if I were Jauron, I wouldn't say no.