Draft is over rated
 

Each year, 32 teams take 7 picks. That's 224 guys, plus numerous undrafted FA's. Every year, each team is hoping these new "rookies" can fill their holes and needs. Each year, most are cut before the season starts, some hang on to practice squads and a very minute minority actually step in and contribute to the team's success.
So why is it that the NFL draft is pumped up? Commercialism?
Anyway, there is a load of talent out there, that have gone to training camp, learned some of an NFL offense and have been released or still stuck on practice squads, waiting for the new crop of rookies to take their place.\
My point is, don't waste all of your time on the new rookies, when there are hundreds of players already in the NFL to help your team. Experience sometimes is worth more than potential.

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C'mon Andersen... what else you gonna do in the offseason? Watch HOCKEY??? ;)

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or worse Soccer... eek.

"Most" of the league stars have been drafted at one point. So we should get excited.

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Baseball????

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Now if there was no draft and where you lived dictated who you played for we would have:

QB Payton Manning
QB Brett Farve
QB Eli Manning
RB Deuce
WR Arnaz Battle
WR Mary Booker

...just to name a few. Maybe we should do a fantasy roster of all the team. Who would have who based on region.

Tom Brady would be playing for the 49ers.
Reggie bush - Chargers.

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We'd have Mary Booker? Who is she? Is she hot, Euph? Just kidding.

Anyway...could you imagine how many championships the Saints would have won with guys like terry Bradshaw, Jerry Rice, Walter Payton, Aeneas Williams, Marshall Faulk, etc...????

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Seattle would be in big trouble.

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This would be up to date players born in the state of Louisiana I can think of recently in the NFL..

Ed Reed..
LaRon Landry..
Dawan Landry..
Nnamdi Asomugha..
Randall Gay..
Brandon Jacobs..
Kevin Faulk..
Marshall Faulk..
Alan Faneca..
Peyton Manning..
Bradie James..
Jarvis Green..
Patrick Surtain
Jake Delhomme
Kevin Mawae
Reggie Wayne
Ike Hilliard
Marcus Spears
Anthony McFarland
Warrick Dunn
Brandon Stokley
Michael Clayton
Craig Davis
Stephen Gostkowski


MISSISSIPPI's:
Fred Smooth
Fred McAfee (lol)
Fred Thomas (lol)
Todd Pinkston
Deuce
Clinton Portis
Correll Buckhalter
Jason Campbell
Steve McNair
Brett Favre
Jason Ferguson
Donald Lee
Cleo Lemon (lol)
Kris Mangum
Terrence Metcalf
Eric Moulds
Michael Myers
Jerious Norwood
Michael Spurlock
Trevor Townsend



If you think of all the Mississippi's Players to of played in the NFL.. some of them could be considered best at their position of all time.. or atleast legends.

Walter Payton
Jerry Rice
Ray Guy
Brett Favre
Archie Manning

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Could you imagine as an attempt to eliminate corrupt college recruiting, you'd have to play in state or if leaving for out of state, be ineligible to play for two years, while attending classes, after your senior year of high school!?!

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By the Way, Texas, LA, and MS would be able to field multiple teams in the scenarios you guys have suggested!

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La. would have all the players in the Gulf Coast states (Mississippi and Alabama), minus Texas and Florida.

We should do up a Roster current roster and add the ones in the draft, by default we'd have Dorsey. LOL.

To much time on our hands

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… it’s the nature of the game’s format.

In no other sport, a team goes from 0-0 to champion in 20 games or less.
And even though it only takes a team 20 games or less to go through the entire season + playoffs, it takes 6 months for these games to take place. The amount of time between games creates hype and heightens the expectations for the next game.

Because of the small number of games played, even after the SB is over, the average football fan still craves watching the game in a competitive and meaningful context (the Pro Bowl no one watches because it counts for nothing).

After the SB, the meaningful football stuff still gets fed to the fans in small doses: free agency, the combine, the draft… so again, there is a crescendo from one milestone to the other…

Also, no other sport contains the amount of position specialization that football has. In any other team sport, any player could play any position at any given time fairly well. Not in football, so it becomes much more important which players are chosen and how they are chosen.

So after F.A., where teams allegedly address certain needs, you get the combine, where some players get hyped, some others get panned… then you go back “on the wagon” and 2 months later, you get the draft, and with the draft, you get the promise of a playmaker.
Then you start to sweat which player your team is actually going to choose, because you know how important those picks are; you know what it means when you need, say, a DT, you draft one high, obliterate your cap for the next 3 years, and he busts. You also get fed all these highlights of all these players and you start imaging those players doing those same things wearing your team’s uniform.