5-at-10: Vick retrospective, Schilling's wild pitch, Golf winnings, Rushmore of sports video games

New York Jets quarterback Michael Vick throws in this 2014 file photo.
New York Jets quarterback Michael Vick throws in this 2014 file photo.

From the "Talks too much" studios, mailbag (and winter) is coming.

Top overall quarterbacks

We spent some time discussing the futures of Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota on Tuesday. The word comes that former No. 1 overall pick Michael Vick signed with the Steelers to back-up Ben Roethlisberger.

That got us thinking, which, yes Spy, is a dangerous thing.

Let's go back 10 years and look at every No. 1 overall pick and see if that pick would have remained the top choice and the change on the franchise. Deal? Deal.

photo New York Jets quarterback Michael Vick throws in this 2014 file photo.

This is especially pertinent in examine Vick, who was the No. 1 overall pick by Atlanta in 2001. The Falcons traded with San Diego to move up and get Vick. San Diego in that draft nabbed future Hall of Famers LaDainian Tomlinson and Drew Brees in rounds 1 and 2 after the deal. That's a haul.

2015 - Tampa takes Jameis Winston (too early to determine).

2014 - Houston takes Jadeveon Clowney (still a little too earlier because of injuries, but Odell Beckham lit it up last year as a rookie).

2013 - Kansas City takes Eric Fisher (major bust, and almost anyone else would have been better; LeVeon Bell in the same backfield with Jamaal Charles would be pretty sweet).

2012 - Indy takes Andrew Luck (that worked out pretty well)

photo Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) gestures after a first down in the first half of an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Bill Feig)

2011 - Carolina takes Cam Newton (in a loaded top half of the draft, the Panthers have a franchise quarterback, but it would be hard not taking J.J. Watt on the redraft; of the top 16 picks in the 2011 draft, 12 have made a Pro Bowl).

2010 - St. Louis takes Sam Bradford (another top-heavy draft, and Bradford has not been able to stay healthy; Ndamukong Suh was the second pick that year).

2009 - Detroit takes Matt Stafford (probably would take Stafford No. 1 in a redraft which speaks more for the draft than Stafford).

2008 - Miami takes Jake Long (the Dolphins struggled at quarterback until settling on Ryan Tannehill a few seasons ago; those struggles would have been settled if they had drafted Matt Ryan, who went No. 3 to Atlanta in this draft, first overall).

2007 - Oakland takes JaMarcus Russell (simply the worst pick in draft history considering the Raiders could have had the best player of this generation at receiver, running back, tackle, corner and middle linebacker with this pick; in fact this pick cost the Raiders almost a decade of bad football that is just now starting to turn).

2006 - Houston takes Mario Williams (this was a crazy draft and Williams was solid in Houston before becoming a current force for Buffalo; the best player in this draft has likely been Nick Mangold, but no one could ever ask a team to take a center No. 1 overall).

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Golf winnings

The Fed Ex Cup golf playoffs start this week, and Jordan Spieth has to be the favorite.

Dude has two major championships this year and finished in the top-five of the other two. He has become only the second pro golfer to earn $10 million in prize money in a season. (Tiger, of course, is the other and he has done it multiple times.)

Spieth has a chance to win the $10 million that comes with the Fed Ex Cup and set a money mark that would be ever-difficult to top.

Speaking of winning money on the golf course, President Obama claims he was hustled on the course by Derek Jeter recently.

He claims Jeter was shanking ball on the range and the President offered to give him 30 shots. First, no wonder we are in the global mess we are in if the President is going to give a Hall of Fame athlete 30 shots. Heck, Tiger Woods in his prime couldn't beat most better-than-average golfers if he gave them 30 shots. Nevermind a world-class athlete with amazing hand-eye coordination.

Yes, Jeter may have hoodwinked the Hacker and Chief a bit by saying he had started playing a couple of weeks ago. But still. Thirty shots?

Granted the President has been playing a lot of golf lately. Like a ton, getting in rounds with NBA all-stars like Steph Curry and former President Bill Clinton.

Side question: Should the rest of us be worried that Obama's working on his short game while the global economy is more erratic than a teenager trying to drive and text at the same time? Hey, we don't begrudge anyone getting out and playing a round or three, but Obama has played 248 rounds of golf in his seven years in office.

Wow.

That said, maybe he should have felt comfortable giving Jeter some shots since he's played more than anyone this side of Spieth recently.

Still, 30 shots is nuts. After the Iran deal, maybe John Kerry did the bulk of pre-round negotiating for the President.

Obama even took a photo of paying Jeter his winnings. Hmmm, Obama feels like someone sneakily got into his wallet, huh?

Now he knows how the rest of us feel.

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Schilling's social media miscue

First off, Hitler and Nazi Germany are never funny.

Never. Unless Mel Brooks is involved, and that's only allowed because Brooks is Jewish and he's a brilliant comedy director.

Every other reference is almost universally unacceptable.

photo In this Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, baseball broadcast analyst and former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling watches as the Red Sox workout at baseball spring training in Fort Myers Fla.

Curt Schilling now knows that for sure.

Schilling, the former Cy Young winning pitcher who helped Boston to the 2004 World Series and now is a prominent baseball announcer for ESPN, sent out a Tweet that compared Muslin extremists to Nazis and Hitler. Here's more on the story.

This is not a freedom of speech issue. Schilling is not in legal trouble because of his Tweet and his Facebook post, and he quickly deleted the social media items after the backlash.

Schilling has been suspended from his ESPN job.

That's completely within ESPN's rights, too. People with jobs that are in the public eye have to abide by a different set of standards in regards to public appeal and keeping a positive image.

Schilling has apologized for posting the message, which had a picture of Adolph Hitler and the caption "It's said that only 5-10 percent of Muslims are extremists; In 1940, only 7 percent of Germans were Nazis."

People can be offended at whatever offends, and the consequences flow accordingly.

It doesn't matter if the message is accurate or incorrect. This about political correctness, and we as a society have been overly politically correct for some time now.

But I do wonder if the outrage would have been similar and ESPN's reaction would have been the same if instead of Muslims, if Schilling had posted a comparison of the extreme 10 percent of Confederate Flag supporters.

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This and that

- Braves played. Braves lost. See you tomorrow.

photo Ian Poulter looks at his line on the second green during the third round of the Honda Classic golf tournament, Sunday, March 1, 2015, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

- Ian Poulter had a fun round of putt-putt with his family and even talked a little smack. Putt-putt rocks.

- Really enjoyed this Mark Wiedmer column on former UTC star Derrick Lott, who is trying to catch on with the Tennessee Titans.

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Today's question

We are looking for mailbag items so there's still time if you have a college football questions.

As for the question, well, Madden '16 was released Tuesday.

In a former life - before kids and back in the day when we thought we were busy but really had no idea what busy looked like - we played a lot of Madden on the Xbox.

So what's your nominations for the Rushmore of sports video games?

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