A new era, for sure

The draft was a little different for the Redskins this year. First off, they actually had draft picks, which is kinda unusual. Then, when they were unable to trade any of the picks for Chad Johnson, they spent the first day picking receivers (um, guys, you do know you can draft linemen, right?). To top it all off, they drafted QB Colt Brennan in the 6th round.

The interesting thing about Brennan (to me) is not how he dropped so far after getting destroyed by Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, but the oblique references to "off-the-field issues." No one actually mentions them, so I will excerpt his Wikipedia page here:

On January 28, 2004, Brennan was accused of entering the dorm room of a University of Colorado woman uninvited and, according to a male friend who entered the room while Colt was present, "exposed himself and fondled the woman'," a charge which Brennan denied. (It has been suggested that Colt was invited to the room by the female student, who reacted when her male friend entered the room.) Brennan, who was intoxicated at the time of the incident, was arrested and eventually convicted of charges of felony burglary and trespassing (serving one week in jail along with probation until he graduated from college), but a guilty verdict for unlawful sexual contact was vacated by the court for lack of evidence. After the incident, which was caught up in the middle of the time when CU was flooded with other accusations of sex crimes and revelations of wild recruiting parties involving Colorado football players, Brennan was kicked off the team.

One could go two directions with this. One way would be to remark that he has only had one off-the-field issue, and has been a stand up citizen while at Hawaii -- and besides, the details of that incident weren't exactly cut and dry.

The other way to go is to think "eeeew." It reminds me of what the Washington Post's Jason La Canfora said when the Redskins signed oft-troubled WR/KR Jerome Mathis: "Ain't no way Mathis gets in the building on [Gibbs'] watch, not even for a workout. Not even to deliver the mail."

A new era indeed. One that I hope will turn out well, but I just can't seem to shake the nervous feeling in my stomach.