Four months.

It seems like it was eons ago when the Colts and da Bears waited for Rex Grossman to failingly flail around Joe Robbie Stadium. It seems so long ago, it feels like we should be fast approaching another September: a time when ever fan says to all their friends, “This year, the [insert favorite team name here] are going to win it all.”

But alas, September is four months away. A third of a calendar year. What’s a fan to do? Voluntary mini-camps are hardly engaging, and an early off-season rich with big names headed to new towns has long since passed.

So here we rest, midway between seasons, with only one thing on our collective minds: the 2007 NFL draft.

Who’s the #1 pick? Who’ll get Calvin Johnson? Which QB is going to go first? Who’s [insert favorite team name here] going to pick? Who’s going to trade?

Over the past month and a half, these same types of questions have been asked and answered, and answered, and answered again, and then analyzed, and then reanalyzed, and finally second guessed, by the otherwise unemployed folks over at ESPN and the NFL Network. I’ve seen every possible permutation of how the first round could possibly go. I even saw a list of draft picks if—instead of drafting in the current order—teams drafted based on their teams total fantasy football points last year. When will all this ridiculousness end?

Saturday.

Have a great day watching, and I hope the [insert favorite team name here] draft the missing piece to their soon-to-be new-born dynasty.

Thanks to a nice woman at Murray's Bagel's, I spotted this article, which I'm going to show to Brady Quinn later today.

DUBLIN, OH—Top draft prospect Brady Quinn, a strong-armed quarterback out of Notre Dame who is expected to be taken with one of the first five picks in the draft, told scouts interviewing him at his family home Monday that he would in all likelihood be a huge NFL bust. "While it's true I have impressive arm strength, and that I'm willing to stand up in the pocket against the rush, the fact remains that my lack of downfield accuracy gets me in trouble on the deep throws and my field vision is suspect," Quinn told draft evaluators from the Raiders, Browns, and Cardinals."Combine that with the enormous starting bonus I'll receive and the tendency for teams to try and develop quarterbacks long after they should give up, and I really just have 'bust' written all over me."

While Quinn recommended teams look to solid prospects such as quarterback Jamarcus Russell, tackle Joe Thomas, and running back Adrian Peterson, Raiders owner Al Davis is reportedly more interested than ever in signing Quinn.

As I write this I'm sitting at a kind of "slice of life" bagel joint called Murphy's on 242 8th Avenue in Manhattan. I commuted into the island from Hicksville, where I'm staying with my friend Bill Chackhes and his wife Ann Rose. I'm having a fantastic time, plus he's working with me on our NFL Draft Web Show from Radio City Music Hall.

More about that soon.

But today -- in fact this trip thus far -- is a page right from Americana. I'm seeing New York from a "regular person's perspective" (and not a tourist's one) for the first time. It's rather cool.

Right now, I'm enjoying coffee, blogging, and waiting for Wil Mara and Bill as a flood of people come in for their bagels and coffee.

It's about 8:34 AM.

The group represents people from many different apparent walks of life, and while mostly White, certainly there are a set of people of color who walk and and out -- coming in, ordering, buying, and leaving. It's like the Penn Station of bagel places.

Pretty Cool.

I even made a video which I'll add below, later..