Sage Rosenfels

 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.  This is part II in the series:

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coaches, the use of time-outs is a fundamental skill. They wasted one because quarterback Sage Rosenfels couldn't hear the play call through his helmet speaker and the Texans have no plan for that possibility. Most teams have hand signals that are used in this situation. Come on its technology, which means its great; but bound to fail along the lines of the Peter Principal. So Rosenfels called a time-out. That's one down the toilet. Another was wasted because the Texans had 13, yes, 13 defensive players on the field!  The worst part, Kubiak said that this was a good use of a time-out. Huh?

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