The NFL Draft is a glorified fantasy draft. There is nothing to it and it really doesn’t matter. And for all you football fans that literally watch ever pick every year here is why you are literally crazy…
The talent doesn’t even really stay on the roster. Of the 66 players that are currently on their roster only 27 of them were selected by the very same Broncos. So that’s roughly half… 40.9% to be exact. That is a decent amount right? Wrong. Of those 27 that were ‘home-grown’ 9 of them were selected this year. Of the 18 of those past draftees only 2 players on the roster have 5 or more years of experience in the NFL. DJ Williams, drafted in the first round in 2004, has 7 years experience and Chris Kuper, drafted in the fifth round has 5 years of experience. That leaves us 16; and 4 of those draftees have yet to play a single down in the NFL. And finally that gives us 12 players that have always been in the Bronco organization. Of that dozen at total of 6 players were drafted in the first two rounds, the rest were drafted in the later rounds. So technically what I’m saying that if you want to sit around for the whole 8 hours on the couch with a bottomless bucket the Colonels best fried chicken and watch less than half your team, over the next 5 years, get drafted be my guest. Just don’t call me to join you.
I’m mad, as a lifetime Broncos fan, for selecting Tebow. As McDaniels said after the selection Tim is ‘hard-working’ and a ‘winner’ and those are two things you cannot replace or even ask less of in a player. They just come with him. But you contradict yourself as a coach when you go talk about draft picks to mold into the team you envisioned and then all of a sudden take a huge leap and give up 3 relatively good draft picks for him. Not to mention, that is the ‘Mile-High Messiah’, as his new nickname emerges, will undoubtedly get first round draft pick money which none of these rookies deserve. (That’s another whole can of worms) He would, most definitely, have been there early in the second round. And although the shock factor for Bronco fans would still be rather high it wouldn’t be as high and you wouldn’t have had to give up picks or mass amounts of cash for Tebow.
There is no bar to guide the draft by. People, coaches in particular, are always preaching to the youth of the world to learn from their mistakes. Shouldn’t the NFL, its analyst, and the organizations be held accountable for their mistakes a full 137 days from now and years down the road.
The NFL is the most watched sport in America; it entertains and dazzles millions worldwide each and every year. And the NFL Draft can single handedly bore me to death.
Your view on the draft is basically the same for many NFL purists who love the game but do not love the business. But to those that like the business side of it, care who gets paid what, what their value is, then the draft is like crack, especially in its addictivness. The love of scouting a player and comparing that player to others is what the NFL has turned into and it gives the fans a chance to feel like they kind of have a say in their team that they invested so much in.
ReplyDeleteAs for Tebow, we can play the games of What Ifs. What if, he becomes an NFL MVP, and leads the Broncos to the Super Bowl. Granted, its very unlikley... as it is unlikley with all NFL draft picks for any team to draft the next saviour of their team... but it does happen. For instance, the first pick of the '83 draft, or the first pick in the '99 draft, or the second pick in the '81 draft, or the 199th pick in the '00 draft. (Elway, Manning, Taylor, Brady)
Now why draft Tebow so high? Because the game of football has never seen anything like him. They have never seen a person that wants to win so badly, is so competitive, yet is so humble and knowing of who he is. The game has never seen anyone who has won a Heismann, nominated for 2 more, won 2 national championships, won countless other awards, threw and ran for so many touchdowns, and is such a good person. He is an enigma, and their were 23 teams that were dumb enough to pass on what has the best chance to be the best NFL player ever.
Yes it's a risk on McDaniels part, but it is a calculated risk. And lets be honest, the Broncos needed to take a good calculated risk to get back into contention in the NFL.
GO BRONCOS!
I'm with you Dunks! Ya gotta dream! Love ya! KB
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