Back in February I wrote what many assumed was a throwaway piece about the quarterback class in this 2010 NFL quarterback/other position player draft. In this piece, I made a number of points regarding various quarterbacks and their perceived high and low points. To spare you a look at the old post, my summary was everyone sucks, and Colt McCoy is the gooberest of goobers.

Looking back, this *may* have been a rash statement. While there certainly are aspects of Mr McCoy that I find to fall in the “goober” category (over-the-top reaction to watching an interception on tape with John Gruden’s tutleage C’MON COLT) it has come to my attention that it *could* be worse.

In dragging out my wide inter-net (get it!) and talking with some bros from the Eleven Warriors and the Black Heart Gold Pants websites, we came up with a list of goobers that may be more ‘goober’ than McCoy. This is not a complete list, but one put together for demonstration.

FIRST UP! Milhouse.

Milhouse is your typical run-down, always-wants-to-do-everything-right-but-never-can, split-household kid that just can’t deal with the world around him. He’s always been pushed aside, and can’t stick up for himself. Unless it’s when he’s trying to hit on his best friend’s younger sister, which is skeevy in it’s own right. Plus, he said “EVERYTHING IS COMING UP MILHOUSE!” – While I’d laugh when hearing “EVERYTHING IS COMING UP COLT!”, I don’t think it’s happened. Yet. Milhouse is more of a goober.

NEXT UP! Butters.

Butters is pretty much Milhouse, but on South Park. So he gets trashed on even more, with more curse words. NOTHING is coming up Butters. And while we’ve established that not EVERYTHING is coming up Colt, there certainly have been some things that have, in fact, come up Colt.

NEXT UP! George W. Bush.

WE WILL NOT GET POLITICAL HERE, BUT THIS IS A POINT THAT WILL WORK. Regardless of your politics, the man fumbled with words sometimes. We can agree on this (seriously, just think about it and chill out – we can agree on this). He also was magnificently cocky at times. I mean, we’re America, right? No reason why our President can’t remind everyone else of how awesome we are now and again. Either of these two things on their own would not warrant the gooberage – HOWEVAAAA, the juxtaposition of a lot of Dubya’s character traits lead to his making the Goober List. The fact that he is in my “top three people I would LOVE to have a beer with” list only adds to the goobs.

THOUGH BOTH ARE FROM TEXAS AND JOHN GRUDEN DOES NOT APPROVE OF MCCOY’S TWANG, BUSH IS MORE OF A GOOBER BASED SOLELY ON HIS CHUCKLEY LAUGH.

LASTLY: Joey Gladstone. This picture goes full-size, because I don’t want to shrink the goober going on.

You’re a grown man. (Some would go so far as to say a “grown-ass man”). You’re a comedian, but you’re in San Fransisco. I’ve only seen limited parts of your set, but it seems pretty hacky, bro. I mean, people can do clean sets and make a lot of good jokes, but c’mon now. If you really want to comedy professionally, you’ll live on a couch in LA while waiting tables like the “upcoming” comedians do. But instead, you’re chillin’ in your buddy’s basement and helping him raise his 4 girls, one of which is split equally between a set of twins, and that’s just kind of weird.

Colt McCoy loves to hunt, wear some cowboy caps, and hook them horns. Uncle Joey likes to tell people to “Cut. It. Ouuuuut.” and go on to star in “The Surreal Life Season 3″. While McCoy isn’t at that late stage of his career where he’ll take money for money’s sake yet, we like to think that he’ll never get there.

So, looking back at my original post, I may have been a bit goober-harsh on Senor McCoy (LOL HE TOTALLY GOT SACKz0RED BY tOSU WHEN HE WAS A FRESHMAN HE SUXXX). I do think he’s acted silly at times, and he might have bug eyes. BUT, if you want to do draft analysis on this pick, it absolutely was the right way to go. McCoy is a very solid quarterback. That’s been documented. The Browns’ Front Office folks have been pretty high on him. When they saw him there in El Roundo Trecero, they El Went For It. In the third round it’s a great move, and it seems that both parties are ecstatic about it. You really can’t ask for much more than that. Unless Steve Young likes it too.