Makes me laugh reading how the national media still has to push letter grades minutes after the draft is over. I’m all for a round-table discussion of picks you liked and didn’t like but to act as if minutes after it is over we need a letter grade is insane. I’ll listen to any in the folks in the media on their letter grade that first shows the letter grades they gave teams the previous seasons. How many of them gave poor grades to the teams that drafted players such as Luke Joeckel, Barkevious Mingo, Dee Milliner or Chance Warmack? Not many I’m sure.
As for the coverage on both ESPN and NFL Network, I felt they did a solid job with the hand they are dealt. Fans want to hear the picks of their teams and could do without all the delays for the announcement of each pick. Can’t some of that be done while on commercial break or prior to coverage starting. I don’t know a more passionate fan of football but sitting through the countless times of hearing "Bob Smith from Albuquerque, New Mexico" working with a former NFL great to announce a second or third round pick gets old very fast.
For the first time I found myself watching more of the NFL Network coverage then ESPN as some of the ESPN stuff seems forced. Could Mel and Todd really disagree so much? Mel must look at Todd and think I was once young too. I prefer to enjoy the smooth work of Charles Davis, Mike Mayock and company. One guy on ESPN that is a true rising star in the football ranks is Louis Riddick. He is a must for any and NFL coverage. Now if the NFL Network could just improve its general programming we might have something.
If I’m an NFL team owner (I only wish) that needs to rebuild my first two calls are to David Shaw and Urban Meyer. They are modern day Jimmy Johnsons producing NFL stars but the dozens each year. The work David Shaw does with the academic requirements at Stanford is even that much more impressive. I would include Nick Saban with Shaw and Meyer but I think Nick stays in Tuscaloosa for the remainder of his career.
Leave it to the Eagles, with the discussion that the NFL Draft might move next year to Philadelphia, isn’t it poetic justice that they don’t have a first round pick in 2017. I’m sure their hardcore fans will still be there to fight with other fans that come to town to watch the draft. In all seriousness, I’m glad they are moving the draft every few years as all fans deserve the chance to see the spectacle that is the NFL Draft.
I hope the latest revelations about the Sandusky case in State College will finally put to bed the crazy talk about putting up the Paterno statue again. I like the tweet I read that said they should put it back up just have it looking the other way.
It seems as each day goes by Paxton Lynch gets better and better, soon many will wonder why the Rams passed on him.
Cleveland you are on the clock and DeShaun Watson will be the pick.