Things That Make You Go Hmmmm

You would think that the quarterback of the BCS national champions would rate a higher draft than the seventh round.

Last season, when LSU won the BCS national championship, they did it with a starting quarterback named Matt Flynn. This kid is a good quarterback. I can't tell you how many times last season I'd given up on a game. How many times I'd prepared myself to accept a loss. But the Captain Comeback of the college world never gave up.

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Sixty minutes of football. That's what they played. And that's how they won. So many times.

So many times Matt Flynn led the team back to score the game winning touchdown in the last minute of the game. The last second. Literally. They didn't call them the Cardiac Tigers for nothing. But I learned, under the leadership of Matt Flynn, to never lose hope that the team would somehow pull out a win, no matter how bleak the situation seemed.

He is a talented quarterback and a good leader. He has a scrappy, never say die attitude, and even more importantly, he had the respect of his team mates.

And he has a national championship trophy.

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All of which makes me wonder why so many pro teams overlooked him.

And why everyone is so surprised that he beat out second round pick Brian Brohm for the #2 job behind Aaron Ross.

Didn't surprise me.

Not one bit.