I saw that. If Raji didn't test positive, then there's no way he falls, you're right.
I still think someone unexpected is going to drop to the Pats. Like everyone else I'd prefer they drafted defense up high, but I'm kinda getting that sinking feeling that BB is going to go counterintuitive on us again. He seems to sense when Pats fans are panicked about some position group on the team and then blows off the problem, almost on purpose it seems, just to show that he thinks the guys he has are okay, that he can figure it out somehow. Remember how long he went before he solved the nose tackle problem that one crazy summer, when he tried to stick Jarvis Green and Dan Klecko in there? How he blew off the corner position last year, the wide receiver group the Reche Caldwell year, the running back position before that (remember Mike Cloud?), or his continual refusal to draft outside linebackers?
It's Belichick's one noticeably weird quality. On the one hand it's probably a good thing, because his insistence on sticking with unlikely, no-name solutions has produced some of his greatest coups -- Cassel, Brady, Vrabel, Randall Gay, Eugene Wilson (remember how no one thought he could replace Milloy?), etc. But on the other hand he seems so reluctant to admit that conventional wisdom could ever be right that he overcompensates sometimes. And I really worry that's going to happen this time. When the whole world is screaming for him to draft an outside or inside linebacker, that's exactly the time when Bill Belichick drafts a tight end or a guard. And it just so happens that the best tight end and the best guard in the draft will probably still be there at #23.
