Part one of four lists of off-season moves around the NFL.

Here are my “What Were They Thinking?” award winners:

10) The San Diego Chargers for allowing Drew Brees to leave and handing the keys to Phillip Rivers at QB.  They learned nothing watching the Buffalo Bills after they kicked their Drew to the curb last year in favor of a highly-paid but never-played QB.

9, 8 & 7) The Buffalo Bills, first for losing Mike Malarkey, AND second for turning to Dick Jauron to be his replacement at Head Coach.  AND if all that wasn’t enough, the Bills earn a ‘triple your dumb’ award for bringing back 116 year old Marv Levy to manage the team’s future.  Put a call into Jim Kelly yet?  O.J.?  I hear he can still cut like an All-Pro. Then again, see number 10.  This is the Buffalo Bills we are talking about.  Bills fans, can you say 5-11? 

6) The Tennessee Titans for giving Steve McNair the cold shoulder enroute to a 2006 season with Billy Volek and Kerry Collins competing for the reigns and tutoring Vince Young.

5 & 4) (Double the Dumb!) The Oakland Raiders Head Coach Art Shell, for bringing Tom Walsh out of five years of running a Bed and Breakfast to be his Offensive Coordinator AND for believing that Saints castaway Aaron Brooks would be the Raiders’ QB savior.

3) Drew Brees for deciding to sign with the New Orleans Saints over the Miami Dolphins when he had a choice between the two.  Miami is headed to the playoffs.  The Saints are headed where they are headed every season… nowhere.  Can you name a QB who went to New Orleans and found it to be a good career move?  Doh!

2) The Dallas Cowboys’ decision to bring Terrell Owens to Dallas.  There is no amount of production on the field that can justify the circus of stupidity that accompanies T.O. wherever he lands.  How long before he’s on TV questioning the sexual preference of his QB; the heart of his teammates; the motives of the playcalling; the integrity of the coaches and administration?  Oh, it’s begun already?  Sure it has.

1) The Houston Texans in their decision NOT to choose Reggie Bush with the first pick of the draft.  This is to take nothing away from Mario Williams, but when your QB has been sacked 70 times and spent much of each possession picking himself up off the turf, didn’t anyone suggest that a legitimate running threat might slow down the opponents pass rush?  If I’m David Carr, I’m buying disability and dismemberment insurance.

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