Mock Drafts Are Dumb – So Here Is Ours…

by | Apr 21, 2009 | NFL Draft

Is this mock draft right? No.

Were there probably some obvious omissions? Perhaps (see Josh Freeman – you can call it an obvious omission if you want. But we don’t think he’s first-round worthy – just our opinion – feel free to tell us why you disagree).

But at the end of the day we think this mock is … well, we think this mock draft is no worse than any other. It’s the only one we’ll do. We have day jobs, so we’re not going to adjust ours every four hours like Mel Kiper does with his.

We set out to write this mock draft a few days ago. Since we got started, one major trade (Peters to Philadelphia) forced a re-write. Certainly other moves are in the works.

That’s why mock drafts are generally worthless. They’re time killers for people who don’t want to do their real work. With one trade or one free agent signing, this whole body of work will be out of date.

So, here’s ours. Like it? Don’t like it? Let us know where we went wrong.

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Team of ’00 Decade

by | Feb 1, 2009 | Hall of Fame, NFL ... something, NFL Random Thoughts

Tony P. brought up another good point in the Pro Football Hall of Fame 2010 Senior List post–since we’re coming up on the 2009 season, we might as well start looking forward to the Team of the Decade for 2000-2009.

So Andy and I put our heads together. We looked at past All-Decade teams and did some quick and dirty research on the past decade’s post-season profiles. Several positions had a glut of superstars while others were lacking. So we decided to not focus on naming a specific number of players from any given spot but on recognizing players with sustained stretches of great play.

Feel free to let us know what you think.
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