Vindication!

so i'm watching football night in america last night on nbc and an interesting thing happened in the player's room.

chris collinsworth asked the question: looking back, did the houston texans make the right call drafting mario williams first in the draft over reggie bush and vince young?

tiki barber and jerome bettis both said: "yes."

take that, haters!

peter king in his monday morning quarterback column for si.com wrote the following:

isn't it funny how, looking back at the 2006 draft, we all laughed at houston for even suggesting mario williams was better than vince young? who's laughing now?

let's look at the numbers:

williams has 32 tackles on the season (with an additional 14 assists). he's had 9.5 sacks and has forced 2 fumbles (he returned one for a TD). he's even deflected one punt.

bush is averaging an embarrassing 3.7 yards per rush. he's had only 4 touchdowns in 12 games but has managed to fumble the ball 7 times.

young has only thrown 7 touchdowns all season but has fumbled the ball 16 times and been sacked another 20.

young's QB rating is 66.9. compare that to peyton manning at 97 and tom brady at a whopping 123.5 rating. hell, even donovan mcnabb - the QB philly wants axed - has a QB rating of 87.9.

so...it is a bit of a sweet vindication that the doubts over taking williams first in the draft over other "high profile" players has turned out to be smart thinking after all.

now...if the texans could just win more games.

but hey - this sunday they beat every one's dark horse golden boys, tampa bay. i'm hoping they can win again this thursday against denver (a game i will be attending, just FYI). because i doubt we'll win our last two games at indy and against the jags.

trying to do the math...i'm still wondering if we can end the season at .500.

i'm hopeful.

meet the press quote of the week

did anyone see that god awful performance by rudy giuliani yesterday? beyond the fact that russert obliterated rudy... the man comes across like an idiot. "well, now i know." after watching yesterday, you have to wonder: does the man know anything?

but...the ego that did utter the words "i spent more time at ground zero than the workers" did bring us our press quote of the week:

"it's all about me."

you keep thinking that rudy....

the ego!

e.