"Darting here and there ...

i Good thing there's a cap on unemployment insurance. Yikes, can you imagine the checks that JaMarcus Russell would be getting at the state's expense if there wasn't?

i Revising a classic line from former Giants baseball GM Al Rosen and applying it to Russell: $39.4 million body, 10-cent head. Actually, from the outset in 2007, a lot of people didn't think there was dime's worth there.

i I didn't believe anybody could ever top Chris Washburn, one of the Bay Area's biggest draft bombs. Washburn celebrated his first big payday by having flame decals installed on both sides of a new Mercedes. Russell didn't even require the Mercedes.

i Just to set the record straight, in this very space, Calvin Johnson as the suggested Raiders' top pick in 2007. That Adrian Peterson guy might not have been bad, either.

i Something good ultimately will come of the JaMarcus disaster. He will become the poster child for a much-needed NFL rookie salary cap. In fact, when it's enacted, they should name it the Russell Rule.

i Now sizzling on the griddle with Russell finally over-and-out: Darren McFadden, Darrius Heyward-Bey."