The Travesty of the NFL.com Mock Draft
Hey! The NFL Draft is coming up on Saturday! It should be about 16 kinds of fun, from someone saying how happy they are to be playing with the Cardinals, or someone wearing a tailored suit and playing with his cell phone as the last guy in the green room (looking at you, Matt Ryan!). There is no shortage of previews of this, the greatest non-event in all of sports. You can't throw a stick without hitting a mock draft.
NFL.com put together what should have been the best NFL previews. They assembled the beat
writers for all the teams and had them pick for their teams and chronical those picks. Great idea, right? Well, no.
See, instead of having these lowly beat writers write up their picks in a nifty, easy to read article, they went ahead and taped them talking into a microphone. I can't remember the last time someone asked for Judd Zulgad to make more on camera appearances. But that's not even the main issue here.
First off, watching videos at work is generally frowned upon. So is surfing the net, but guess what, corporate America, everyone does it! The internet, however, doesn't have sound on every thing written, as does, say, a video. So, with most of America doing most of their internet browsing while at work (I keep my posts short so you can get those expense reports taken care of), nobody can look at this nifty little feature of yours.
Let's say, though, that Joe Sports Fan wants to get the opinion of Darin Gantt of the Rock Hill Herald. They see that he thinks that, at that position the Panthers should pick Ryan Clady from Boise State. What?! Ryan Clady could be available at 13? How did that happen? What did the nincompoop for the Bills pick?! Let me hurry and click the link and watch another ad for Hummers and then watch him tell me all about the Bills needs and then finally make his pick. But what about the Broncos? Ad. Needs. You know what, screw it. I don't care. Why would anyone want to sit around for the 2 hours it would take to get through all those videos? The picks aren't anywhere that's easily available, and nobody is going to care within 4 hours of the first pick anyways. Why go through the trouble?
Frankly, this was probably the most well informed mock of them all, but if a mock draft is posted and nobody has the patience to listen to it, is it really valuable?
NFL.com put together what should have been the best NFL previews. They assembled the beat
writers for all the teams and had them pick for their teams and chronical those picks. Great idea, right? Well, no.See, instead of having these lowly beat writers write up their picks in a nifty, easy to read article, they went ahead and taped them talking into a microphone. I can't remember the last time someone asked for Judd Zulgad to make more on camera appearances. But that's not even the main issue here.
First off, watching videos at work is generally frowned upon. So is surfing the net, but guess what, corporate America, everyone does it! The internet, however, doesn't have sound on every thing written, as does, say, a video. So, with most of America doing most of their internet browsing while at work (I keep my posts short so you can get those expense reports taken care of), nobody can look at this nifty little feature of yours.
Let's say, though, that Joe Sports Fan wants to get the opinion of Darin Gantt of the Rock Hill Herald. They see that he thinks that, at that position the Panthers should pick Ryan Clady from Boise State. What?! Ryan Clady could be available at 13? How did that happen? What did the nincompoop for the Bills pick?! Let me hurry and click the link and watch another ad for Hummers and then watch him tell me all about the Bills needs and then finally make his pick. But what about the Broncos? Ad. Needs. You know what, screw it. I don't care. Why would anyone want to sit around for the 2 hours it would take to get through all those videos? The picks aren't anywhere that's easily available, and nobody is going to care within 4 hours of the first pick anyways. Why go through the trouble?
Frankly, this was probably the most well informed mock of them all, but if a mock draft is posted and nobody has the patience to listen to it, is it really valuable?
Labels: Angry Ranting, Draft, NFL
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