The Ravens may have pulled the weekend's best QB heist, taking Troy Smith in the fifth round. Steven Grayson/WireImage.com
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5. I think this might sound strange, but Chiefs defensive end Jared Allen got off pretty light when Roger Goodell took only one quarter of his season away. K.C.'s best pass rusher got a four-game suspension for two DUI charges in the space of one year. Allen entered a program for first-time offenders after the first DUI, then pleaded no contest to the second charge. I've heard Goodell is going to have a boilerplate suspension of two games for a first drunk driving charge. Allen's fortunate he only got four. It stands to reason that a repeat offender would get more than double the penalty when he makes the same stupid mistake.

6. I think there's a good chance Texas cornerback Aaron Ross, the Giants' first-round pick, could be a star in New York. And soon. He was charming and excited, and sounded like all of us hope the players we cover (in my case) and root for (in the case of Giants fans) would sound after getting picked by the G-men.

"I was outside playing catch with my little nephew and my mom called me because I guess they had my name at the bottom of the screen as a projection,'' he said. "I went in and got the call and immediately my hands started shaking, my heart started pounding; but I am full of excitement right now.''

He said, "I love to man up on guys and take them out of the game.'' Asked about his biggest adjustment to the pro game, he said, sounding about as honest as a kid can, "I think being star-struck. Facing T.O. Facing Chad Johnson. Making myself realize they aren't on a video game anymore or on Sunday Night Football. I am up against them on the other side. Once I get over that, I feel I will be straight.''

7. I think I'd like to hear the defensive comments four years from now from scouts when they are asked to justify how Troy Smith went with the last pick of the fifth round. This isn't Charlie Ward, people. This is a guy who played at a high level until the last game of his college football career. And he goes 174th? I almost would call that irresponsible. Troy Smith went two picks after Legedu Naanee, for crying out loud. Smith's the same height as Drew Brees, people!

8. I think the Lions might be exceptional on offense this year. Imagine a three-wide set with Roy Williams and Calvin Johnson split wide, with Mike Furrey, the 2006 NFC receptions leaders with 98, in the slot.

9. I think Mike Vick needs to give about 20 golden handshakes to good old friends and tell them, "Sorry. I'm going to ruin my life unless I make a clean break with 70 percent of my past.'' And if those friends are real friends, they'll understand.''

10. I think these are my non-football thoughts of the week:

a. Best athletic performance of the week? No question. No doubt. Jason Kidd played Game 3 of the Nets' playoff series with a bruised knee, and he had what might be the best game of his pro career, which is saying something: 16 points, 16 rebounds, 19 assists. "I felt good,'' Kidd said. Apparently.

b. Mariano Rivera, 1-for-3 in save opportunities. Al Reyes, whoever that is, 8-for-8.

c. Jimmy Johnson has switched to Heineken premium Light from Heineken high-test ... and lost 13 pounds.

d. Sopranos note of the week: Watch the scene where the aptly named mob boss Phil Leotardo takes his can't-fit-in nephew (that's putting it nicely) with the black lipstick and black nail polish to get ice cream. The ice cream place is called Applegate, on Grove Street in Upper Montclair, N.J. ... and it's the place where once a year, the Montclair Bears 10U summer softball team is taken for ice cream with rainbow sprinkles by their incredibly nice coaching staff. Five episodes left, and the scene is being set for a murderous spring, if you ask me.

e. Coffeenerdness: Detroit's a nice Starbucks town, but the two locations (there may be more, but I've seen two) at the Detroit Metro Airport simply have to serve good coffee more consistently. They rush too much, with too much of an assembly-line feel. And you can't rush a good latte.

f. Who in the world would have thought -- and I mean ever -- that the best Japanese pitcher in Boston in April would be Hideki Okajima, not the great and powerful Matsuzaka?

g. We'll miss you, David Halberstam. What a great and brave journalist, and what a contributor to smart sportswriting. His book about the staid Yankees and the upstart, team-of-the-future Cardinals and the '64 World Series is one of the three or four best sports books I've ever read.