Nah, the NFL don't stop......

There are various ways to prove that the NFL and MLB are the top two leagues. Whether it's TV ratings, the high number of fantasy teams/leagues, player endorsements, and of course off-season popularity.

The MLB hot stove, free agent market, is highly entertaining and due to the lack of a salary cap trading is a more frequent occurance, which adds drama to the months leading to spring trading. There's not many trades within football and due to shorter careers, NFL rarely has that high profle free agent drama. But the NFL does have a highly popular, immediate impact draft. It's not even a week after the New York Giants won the championship in one of the more entertaining Super Bowls, yet the NFL draft experts are in full swing. Tom Coughlin, the head coach of the Giants, had said himself that he, his coaching staff, and the front office, won't get a chance to fully enjoy the post-season success until they get through the draft.

Scouts, Inc. Todd McShay is a bad hair incident away from taking Mel Kiper Jr.'s job as NFL draft expert.......which I'm sure many already think it's already his. His mock draft is here, you need to be a ESPN Insider to read it, fyi. Hey why not join, with a subscription you also get the worlds worst sports magazing in the mail...but I digress.

McShay likes Matt Ryan, the Boston College QB, as the first pick in the draft going to the Dolphins. Witht he normal cast of characters accompanying Ryan at the top of the draft such as Darren McFadden, Chris Long, Jake Long, and Glenn Dorsey.

The afforementioned Kiper, has the same crew at the top of his big board, just with McFadden going number 1.

Even more off-season speculation can be found on Yahoo! Sports, with off-seaon questions posed by Charles Robinson, and Mike Florio from the SportingNews makes 10 bold predictions.

My favorite prediction is #7, that Jerry Jones will make a big splash. Two things have been proven in the NFL, a run first QB will not win you a Super Bowl, and drastic off-season changes do not automatically turn into a Super Bowl ring. Like most football fans, I hate Jerry Jones and his Cowboys, and outside of this years Giant play-off run, nothing is sweeter than watching his "face-lifted" expression when his team loses.