This one of the best all-around days in the National Football League: the day after the NFL draft.

All 32 teams believe they had good days Saturday and Sunday. They have reported this to their fans through the media that cover their activities.

“Give us a seven,” most will say, temporarily. “Could go up, could go down.”

Our designated judge, Ira Kaufman, gave “A” ratings to the Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys.

He works the Bucs and NFL beats closely for The Tribune—and you and me.

“You’re right. This is Monday after the picks. We think we did well. Everybody thinks they did well,’’ said Doug Williams, the dandy Buc quarterback who took the Washington Redskins and head coach Joe Gibbs to the rainbow’s end in the Super Bowl.

Williams is now a personnel executive with the Buccaneers. He’s good and he’s loyal and he loves what he does. He was the number one pick of the Bucs in 1978 and led the franchise to an NFC championship game before moving on to Washington.

“Aqib Talib, our first round pick first is a good one, and he is a big one. He’s 6-1 and over 200 and can fly at corner,” Williams said. “We wanted him and we got him. The receiver, Dexter Jackson, can go, and that big fellow from Rutgers at guard (Jeremy Zuttah) at 6-4 and 303, can motor as well.”

Williams then dwelled on the fifth-round pick. He would. That pick is Josh Johnson (6-foot-2, 201 pounds) from a small school, San Diego. Williams came to the NFL 30 years ago from Grambling, another Div. I-AA school.

Johnson will need work, Doug said, but he knows it.

“Man, we (already) got five quarterbacks. And we got that veteran, Jeff Garcia, he’ll make them all better. He works so hard. He’s careful, too,” Williams said. “He’s 38 now, so we got Josh, and we got Brian Griese and Chris Simms, the other young arms, and Luke McCowan and Bruce Gradkowski. Competition will be stout.”

The other Bucs picks were linebacker Geno Hayes from Florida State and running back Cory Boyd from South Carolina. Both have game credentials. Both also have baggage. Coach Jon Gruden believes he can handle that sort of thing, that player who arrives with a past he’d like to forget. Gruden tells them to straighten up and do right. Most have.

“Can’t always be sure about a young man and a pocket full of money,” Williams said. “He’ll get the shot, but he better stay clean.”

Williams was never a boy. He was always a man, to the delight of Gibbs—who found him—and the late, great John McKay—who coached him. McKay loved “Dougie,’’ as he called him.

Steve Spurrier, now the coach at South Carolina, and Parnell “Paydirt” Dickinson were the first two quarterbacks of the Bucs. Gary Huff followed in 1977, then came Doug Williams.

“I wouldn’t trade it,” Williams said. “McKay and Coach Gibbs here, then Gibbs at Washington where we won it all. I hope we can do it all over again now with all of those quarterbacks at work here.

“I like what I see, and it’ll be fun to be part of this new Buccaneer football adventure.”