For better or worse, whether it is fair or not, the thing I'm going to constantly remember about Omar Kelly, especially as he continues bashing Beck, is how extraordinarily foolish he ended up looking on the Derek Hagan front. Omar was really the guy that took the lead in talking about how Hagan was not standing out in any of the OTAs or mini camps, how he was dropping passes, and how guys like Davone Bess and David Kircus were looking better than him out there. Then, coaches basically came right out both on the record and off the record, and completely and thoroughly contradicted everything Omar had been saying about Hagan. One coach asked not to be named and said that Hagan was the best WR in camp thus far. Tony Sparano gushed about him. Karl Dorrell gushed about him. Then, all of a sudden, without any practices or catches under the belt to change peoples' minds...Derek Hagan went from "about to be cut tomorrow" to right up there with Ernest Wilford and Ted Ginn as the lock box top three WRs and guys fighting for starting positions. There ain't anyone out there anymore thinking Hagan could get cut.
So, whenever I see Kelly beating his anti-Beck drum, that's what I think. Well, that and some downright silly statements he's made about various college players...that showed me he's not particularly good at telling what NFL talent looks like and does not look like.
And I feel bad about all that, because Omar Kelly is a nice guy...a sincere guy...by all means he LOOKS like he's a hard working guy, an ethical guy...I mean this is not another Armando Salguero. But, fact of the matter is he doesn't seem to have many skins on the wall and when he starts bringing in the evaluation and editorial stuff into the frame...he shows a little bit of his greenhorn nature.
