Inside the Mind of Suz

I always come to this conclusion after the NFL holds their draft, but never really put my thoughts down in writing…UNTIL NOW!

Dear NFL GM’s,

Please stop drafting players that play one position only to move them to another one after you sign them. This isn’t the NBA, where teams frequently draft the “best available” and then figure out where to put them later. There are only 5 positions in basketball, so it’s a lot easier to mix and match than in professional football where there are complex defensive and offensive schemes. Draft the wrong player and you set yourself back a ton of $$$ and potential success on the field.

For instance, if your team runs a 3-4 defense, why draft a player who has played nothing but DE his whole career, and then try to immediately turn him into an pass-rushing OLB. It’s not the same thing!

Then you and your fanbase will bad mouth them if they don’t mirror their collegiate production from the 1st snap. It simply doesn’t work like that!

Now, I understand that if you’re paying all that money, players should be able to learn a new position. Totally understand that. But if your expectation is that he learn it during fall camp and have it perfected by the 1st regular season game, you need your head checked. That’s just not realistic! Players take years to learn their positions and you knew what you were getting when you drafted them. Don’t act all shocked if they suck at the position you moved them to. You don’t draft a kicker to QB your team, do you? (Yea, bad example, but sometimes I feel like these teams are that stupid)

You’ve got no one to blame but yourself for your 1st round NFL Draft disasters. If you have a position that is a crucial and immediate need, DRAFT SOMEONE WHO HAS PRODUCED AT THAT POSITION IN COLLEGE or go the free agency route! If you can afford to wait a year or two before heavily relying on this player, then by all means, take that risk and develop them.

You get paid the big bucks, so why not actually do some homework before the draft, k?

< / end rant >

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

I know many of you don’t care, but I dooooooo!

Any time I meet or see someone with the last name “Lowrey”, I have to bust out a “He’s Mike Looowwwwwrrey” in my best Martin Lawrence voice. You know the part!

And when someone drives like crap, but suddenly gets it together, I share an enthusiastic “Now that’s how you supposed to drive! From now on that’s how you drive!” Don’t judge me! I love my black-centric action movies!

Anyway, after Bad Boys 2 came and went in the theaters, we heard rumblings of a 3rd installment, but no official word. That was 2003, folks!

ComingSoon.net reports that super producer Jerry Bruckheimer had the following to say re: Bad Boys 3:

“It’s a wish and a hope and a dream. We’ve been working on a screenplay, which is excellent. It’s an idea Will gave us, so hopefully, it will come to fruition, we would love it to.”

I’m not taking this news as confirmation that it will definitely happen, but it’s nice to see that they’re working on one of my favorite action movie franchises. Now, hurry the hell up guys!

So, if you’re a basketball fan you know the LA Lakers are playing the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference semifinals of the NBA Playoffs. You probably also are aware of Lakers star Kobe Bryant’s very “interesting” photo spread for LA Times Magazine. If not, click here.

I don’t know what he was thinking, letting stylist James Valeri get him in those outfits, but what’s done is done. The blogosphere has been clowning the Black Mamba ever since the photos surfaced, and now Utah Jazz fans are piling on!

Peep some pics of them trying to get into Kobe’s head during the Jazz home game tonight:

Classic. I give them an “A” for effort. Too bad, for them, it didn’t work. Lakers won and lead the series 3-0.

I bet all of you thought I had, huh? I have not!

I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone that sometime “life happens”, and when it does, you simply adjust. That’s what I’ve ended up doing all winter and so far this spring.

I do still plan on creating a whole set, but it will probably feature different music. I know I put up a poll asking what y’all wanted to hear (Old school R&B/Hip-Hop won) and I intend to start with that. Thing is, aside from some of the chart toppers and my personal faves, I don’t think I have enough songs to get through more than a couple of podcasts. That’s mostly because I can’t find comprehensive lists of the R&B/Hip-Hop Top 25 for each week/month during the 90s like I probably could for the 2000s. (If any of you could direct me to a nice list, that would definitely help!)

I’m also not above reusing some songs that appeared in the c25k Podcast, because let’s be honest Bell Biv DeVoe, old Biggie, TLC, & Janet Jackson tracks, Tony Toni Tone, En Vogue, and Salt n’ Pepa belong in this set! Don’t worry, though. The recycled songs won’t all appear in the same playlist.

So, I am trying to work on Gateway to 8k a little bit each day. I’d give you a target release date, but I’d just end up disappointing y’all, when it came and passed without some podcasts lol!