The second round Friday will be full of topshelf talent as well. In particular, bigname quarterbacks Jimmy Clausen and Colt McCoy will be of interest after both were left on the board Thursday; Clausen was considered a latefirst round prospect, while McCoy was expected to remain unpicked as of yet. In addition, Texas DE/OLB Sergio Kindle and USC S Taylor Mays, once considered sure firstrounders remain undrafted..It might be three to six months they'll go into the lockout before they start cutting pay. Some, though, if there's a lockout in March . Will start losing pay immediately but they'll still be expected to work fulltime. Other teams are saying if there are no games missed, the coaches will be reimbursed.

In last week's column, I wrote about how only 10 games this season have had spreads in the double digits, which is down sharply from the season before. Thanks to parity, there have been fewer games where oddsmakers are predicting blowouts. The problem, it appears, is