Can future stars in 2007 NFL Draft save your teams?

I'm hoping, oh you gotta' believe I'm hoping.

After a full season of NFL Football when I turned my back on the pathetic Oakland Raiders and start giving love to Peyton Manning and the rest of the Indianapolis Colts basically when I started having Peyton in my fantasy team, (he he...) this is the time of the year when I begin to hope for Oakland again.

Forgive me, I can't help it. Oh yeah, I did the same thing last offseason, and the offseason before that. (And of course, the offseason before that too...) Now, with Oakland having the overall No.1 pick in the 2007 NFL Draft, I'm certain these guys will get the right man to save their pathetic franchise. (Unless they do a moronic ''Houston Texans pick'' of course... shit.)

Speaking of the coming 2007 NFL Draft which begins this Saturday, the top three prospects feature three of the most important positions in football. We have a wide receiver, a quarterback and a running back and the No.1 pick will depend on what the Oakland Raiders feel the need to improve on.

Of course, based on the pathetic showing these guys had last season, a quarterback should be at the top of their list. The Raiders started their 2006-2007 campaign with Aaron Brooks as their starting QB. They learned then and there that Brooks just fumble the football too damn much.

Oh yeah, backup Andrew Walter got the go-signal to takeover but the problem there was, Walter just doesn't move well inside the pocket. Hell, he just can't move period. It's almost as if his dick was rammed through his center's ass that he just stays there waiting for the opposing team's defense to sack him five, six, seven times in a row.

LSU Tigers QB JaMarcus Russell should be their man. Russell was a first team All-SEC selection in 2006, throwing 3,129 yards, 28 touchdowns and just giving up eight interceptions, that's how much Walter has in a month.

As for the rest of the NFL football teams looking to find their own messiah next season, the Detroit Lions have the second pick. And if the Raiders do draft Russell, then they should go get Calvin Johnson, the explosive wideout from Georgia Tech. Of course, just like the Raiders, one of the problems these guys have is at the quarterback position, the only difference is, their problems with the wideout slot is as pathetic.

Calvin Johnson just might have enough to keep the Detroit Lions afloat. He is the ACC Player of the Year and Biletnikoff Award Winner when he became the top wide receiver in the nation. He caught 76 passes for 1,202 yards (15.8 average) and 15 touchdowns in 2006.

Of course, you just know that the Cleveland Browns will always be lottery-bound and this draft is no different. After years of misery and pain (he he...) the Browns find themselves sitting at No.3 in the lottery and if both the Raiders and the Lions draft guys accordingly to what I expect them to do, then Oklahoma Sooners RB Adrian Peterson should be going to Ohio and play for the pathetic Browns.

Although I don't believe Adrian Peterson can save the franchise now, he will still join a good crop of young players in Cleveland that can make some noise in the NFL some day. It won't be in the coming season or the season after this one but they will get there one way or another.

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Chicago Bears 8/1

Indianapolis Colts 7/1

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