The NFL draft started last night and boy was it exciting. OK, I didn’t watch. I used to watch most of it, then I realized I was alive and could walk around and do other things, like anything. What a draft in sports is, is where 90 sports analysts call each other stupid because they disagree on who or what a team needs and should pick. Then a team picks a player and they all agree or disagree with the pick and call the team stupid or genius. Then this cycle repeats for several hours – in the NFL’s case, over 3 days.
I wouldn’t mind the draft, if there were about three minutes between picks. They have three months to get ready for it – the bad teams even longer because they didn’t make the playoffs. They get 10 minutes, then the time starts dropping. Used to be 15 and one year, the Vikings didn’t get their pick in for 45 minutes – they actually got skipped twice. They should have pulled the GM out and threw rocks at him until the pick was made.
Also, it’s all guess work. If you’re last in the league in passing and your QB threw 43 interceptions, my toddler could tell people you may want a quarterback. I don’t need three months of breaking it down by ten guys who have never coached or played football. Then they get a QB and they talk about it for 20 years after. Some fans actually go to the draft and sit there sober and cheer for three days. I just shuddered a bit.
All you need to know is very highly paid people are picking new players for your team. Most will be off the team in three years. If too many don’t make the team, those highly paid people get fired. If most do, you probably will win games. There’s your breakdown. Watch the first round, then go do something else. If you’re watching the seventh round on day 3, you need help and I feel bad for you. Watching draft guys argue is less entertaining than watching drunks at a bar yell about who was better at sports in high school.