Marc Bulger

As football fans across the globe cast their longing eyes in the direction of the April draft, I decided that now might be a good time to reflect on draft classes of the last 10 years. Too often in this business, we rush ahead to the next big event without taking pause to evaluate the past and learn from it. In a way, this study will still be a celebration of the coming 2009 draft as I believe it will shed some light on certain overlooked trends that no one ever stops to consider. I will begin with a class by class showdown of sorts at the quarterback position over the last 10 drafts.  First up, we have the class of 1999 taking on that of 2000:

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Besides the overall record of the Rams under Linehan, what irritated me the most was Linehan's last game against the Bills. First, the obvious, he benched Marc Bluger only to replace him with Trent Green. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that Green faired pretty well in the beginning of the game, but he really started showing why he's a second stringer late in the game. Secondly, where was all of this will to win when Linehan's job wasn't on the chopping block? If he would have been doing some of the things that he did for this game all along, he might still have a job. As much as it sucked that we got blown away in the second half, I seen some dazzling plays that worked really well. If Linehan would have won that game, would he still have a job? I'd like to believe not, for the simple fact that we would never see that side of Linehan again, or even worse, we might never have seen Bulger on the starting line up again.

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