The physics of that step show a 65 G force into my brain. The NFL does not get concerned until players suffer 80 G's or more. No wonder Troy Aikman, Steve Young and many others had to retire from football before their time..Here's a guy who picked two starting tackles in the first two rounds last year, Eugene Monroe and Eben Britton, and then on consecutive picks in the third round took two immediate defensive starters, tackle Terrence Knighton and corner Derek Cox, both of whom had very good rookie seasons. The moral or the story to me is simple. For a guy who had such a strong draft last year and is widely respected (though mostly unknown because the Jags have been recently invisible on the NFL landscape) by his scouting peers, Smith deserves a light rap on the wrist for not getting a little something by trading down.

In the book "Laker Girl," executive Jeanie Buss described the impact Johnson's announcement had on Jerry Buss, her father and the Lakers' owner: