Ten Things I Think I Think

	The Texans added yet another centerpiece to their defensive line on Saturday -- 19-year old wunderkind Amobi Okoye. Alan H. Schwartz/WireImage.com
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1. I think these are my quick-hit thoughts of draft weekend:

a. Why didn't Washington trade up to get Calvin Johnson? "LaRon Landry was the best defensive player on our board,'' owner Dan Snyder told me. "We're a lot better team with him today.'' And the Redskins didn't have to touch the 2008 draft. That took some discipline right there.

b. We'll look back on this draft one day and say Amobi Okoye was a steal at No. 10 to Houston. He's a clean-as-a-whistle Warren Sapp.

c. Way to call Steve Smith to the Jints, Adam Schefter.

d. Levi Brown-Russ Grimm. Match made in Hog Heaven.

e. Brady Quinn was the eighth player on the Dallas draft board. Imagine passing him up at 22.

f. Anthony Gonzalez must be pinching himself. I played in Ted Ginn Jr.'s shadow all this time, and now I get to catch passes from Peyton Manning in the NFL? I've died and gone to heaven.

g. Best match of player to team in the entire seven rounds: Paul Posluszny to Buffalo. He was made to play in the tundra, and that town is going to love him like it loved Steve Tasker. Mark my words.

h. Happiest kid in the draft? Drew Stanton grew up wearing a Barry Sanders jersey in a grassy suburb of Detroit, and he lives to revive the Lions. "I can't begin to tell you how happy I am right now,'' he said.

i. I wish Brian Leonard had been picked by an outdoors team, preferably one that got muddy a lot. That's the kind of player he is. But you'll love him, St. Louis.

j. How'd you last 'til 59, Ryan Kalil?

k. And H.B. Blades going in the fifth? The Redskins stole him. Just stole him.

l. I think Michael Bush will win a rushing title -- if the Raiders ever get their offensive line fixed. Maybe around 2011.

m. I did this with only one draftee, but I had to e-mail Giants GM Jerry Reese to tell him great pick after he snagged linebacker/long-snapper Zak DeOssie with a fourth-round pick. The guy will be a 13-year pro, and always a hard-working asset to whatever team he's on.

n. Amazing how Matt Millen stays so positive with the daily barrage of negativity in the community about him.

o. Jerramy Stevens to the Bucs. What, Randy Moss wasn't available, Bruce Allen?

2. I think -- and I need some more time to look into this over the next few days -- I find it hard to support Moss to the Patriots, regardless of how little they paid for him. And it's looking like they got the guy for an absolute song, though the exact money details haven't filtered out yet, except to say that ProFootballTalk.com has Moss getting either $3 million or $3.5 million in base salary in a one-year deal, down from the $9.25 million the Raiders owed him this year.

As we know, assuming there's not a signing bonus involved -- and ProFootballTalk.com says there is none -- the Patriots can basically have Moss on a five-month trial now, for free, because nothing he'll make is guaranteed until the first game of the season. But I'm still not sure this is right.

I'm about to get preachy/sappy. Even when the Patriots took a chance on guys like Corey Dillon, they were using roster spots on guys who were never accused of not hustling. To me, and to Bob Kraft, Bill Belichick and Scott Pioli, cheating the game is the worst crime a player can commit. Moss has done it regularly, going back to the infamous dogging it that Merril Hoge proved on ESPN years ago.

People around the Raiders had a major beef with Moss -- he regularly dogged it. I'm not going to kill the Patriots for this, because Moss might well turn into Pete Rose, and if he does, good for him. But this is not the kind of player the Patriots stand for. He can prove all of us doubting this trade wrong. But I can't help but think that, regardless of the outcome, the Patriots should have let someone else deal with his potential flameout. In their quest for the greatest offseason in the Cap Era (which the Patriots might have won before the Moss trade), I think New England went one step too far.

3. I think once you move to the pragmatic side of the deal, my guess is New England will be happy with Moss. Can he still play? We'll see, but he'll be tremendously motivated to play. His career's on the line. He's 30. He's entering his 10th year in the NFL. He mailed it in the last two years in Oakland. The most stunning stat of all the negative Mossisms is the man had one catch of 40 yards or more last year; he had 14 of those as a Viking rookie.

Moss was once a lock for Canton. Now he might be a lock to be football's version of Dwight Gooden, a great player who flamed out through nobody's fault but his own. But it's in his hands to be great again, with the best team he's ever been on.

4. I think JaMarcus Russell to the Raiders scares me. I would have done the exact same thing Oakland did, to be sure. But the formula for early success is a bad one there. So much pressure on him to perform well early, with such a porous offensive line, and who knows what at wideout.