Arthur Blank Is Bossy

Don Banks cites "sources" as saying that Arthur Blank has ordered Rich McKay to maneuver to get Calvin Johnson.

Sources say Falcons owner Arthur Blank has pretty much ordered Atlanta general manager Rich McKay to do everything he can to put the team into position to land Johnson at No. 2.

The rest of the article is all the speculation behind why this trade will happen, just like every other freakin' draft rumor is totally justified and guaranteed to happen. Unless it doesn't. Then, of course, the sources misinformed him. Those damn sources.

The truth is that no one in the media knows any more than they did a couple days ago or more than they will know before Saturday at noon. The only thing that would change that is if Oakland signs their first round pick to a contract before they draft him (which they are allowed to do as the first pick of the draft.) That would end the minor speculation of what Oakland will do and shift the focus to where it already is... Detroit.

And if Arthur Blank is getting his mustache into team management, maybe he should concentrate his effort on his star running back quarterback who is having himself a humilitastic week. Getting criticized for his nominal donation to Virginia Tech, missing a meeting with Congress where he was supposed to promote after-school programs, allegations of animal abuse and cockfighting on his Virginia property, and a misdemeanor trespassing charge for fishing on someone else's lake (which is not a euphemism for having sex with someone's girlfriend, even though it sounds like it.) Blank would do well to leave the draft to McKay and a little sit down with Vick. And by "little sit down", I mean beat him with a tire iron until he understands Blank is serious about not making him look like an asshole.

Wow, Vick took shots at both children and puppies in the same week. I guess next week he'll get around to kicking Santa Claus in the nuts and taking a piss on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall all while wrapped in the North Korean flag.