Al Davis has lost his mind

Just a quick thought. Has anyone taken a look at the draft picks of the Oakland Raiders?

If you haven't here is a brief run-down after Day One. (If you don't know what a run-down is, ask Jim Halpert).

In the first round, with the 7th pick in the draft, the Raiders selected Darrius Heyward-Bey, a wide receiver from the University of Maryland. That's 7th, not 37th. Granted he was the fastest WR at the combine, most scouts believed that he would go anywhere from the second round to late-first round at the earliest. What is Al thinking? He could have traded this #7 pick to the Jets, before they acquired the #5 pick from the Browns (giving up 3 players and 2 picks), and gotten TONS in return. Oh, and they also could have gotten Darrius Heyward-Bey. He would have most definitely still been available at #17, as that it is where Jeremy Maclin was drafted, and nearly EVERY team had Maclin rated above Heyward-Bey.

Okay, the only reasonable explanation is that Al Davis, having gone almost completely insane, believed that he was getting a deal in drafting Heyward-Bey. Davis, in all of his genius, probably believed that he was drafting two players at once!!! A deal that not even Howie Mandel could pass up. Seeing as Al was born in 1674, he probably does not understand the concept of hyphonated last names. That's okay, Al. Everything will be fine until Darrius Heyward shows up for training camp, and you keep asking everyone when Darrius Bey will be gracing the Raiders practice field with his presence.

In the second round, Al decided to go on a limb and draft Michael Mitchell from THE Ohio State University. Oh wait. No STATE. My bad, Michael Mitchell from ohio university. The fightin' bobcats. Wow. Remarkable. What a genius. No one, BESIDES AL DAVIS, could have seen the NEED to spend a second-round draft pick on a guy that most NFL teams didn't even know existed. I mean, there is a possibility that not even Michael Mitchell knows that he exists. We are talking about a guy that Davis could have gotten AFTER the draft. Davis could have gone to Mitchell's house in August, days before the first exhibition, and said, "hey, would you like to lose 15 games this year? well then, you wanna join my team full of guys just like you, guys that absolutely no one has heard of???" This might be the absolute DUMBEST draft pick of all time. Well, except for that time that the team took a kicker in the first round. What team was that? OH YEAH, THE RAIDERS!

You used to be my favorite team, Oakland Raiders. Now, I don't completely understand how I made it so many years. I have now moved on to greener pastures, and now I can only hope that they put Al Davis out to pasture...