San Diego Chargers, the NFL Draft, and Manti Te'o

I know that the Spurs are playing the Lakers in the first round of the NFL Playoffs, but up 3-0 and with a Lakers player seemingly going down to injury every game there isn't much to talk about on that subject.

I could talk about the Angels, but that's just too depressing right now.

So it's the NFL draft this week and in the first round the Chargers (11th pick) filled a big need at offensive tackle with D.J. Fluker who was part of the Alabama's national championship o-line.  The 3 tackles that were rated ahead of him by NFL.com went 1-2-4 (the first time ever OTs went 1-2 in an NFL draft or three of the first four).  As Mike Maylock said on the NFL Channel broadcast, the Chargers didn't have a legit starting OT on their roster before drafting Fluker...so this was big for SD.

I wasn't so thrilled with the selection of Manti Te'o in the 2nd round...and no it's not because of the Catfishing incident or the bad showing at the combine.  Personally, I think combine performances are overrated.  During his college career, Te'o won the Nagurski Award, Lombardi Trophy, the Bednarik Award, the Maxwell Trophy and named the Walter Camp National Player of the Year, so regardless of the combine there's a lot of people out there who think he has skills.  The Catfishing thing has nothing to do with his on field performance and he's considered a high character guy.

So why am I not thrilled?