Eagles 2016 Draft

[Eagaholic]

The draft is always been about hopes and dreams which many fans confuse with reality.

[Rome]

Until that funholeface Goodell moved it to Thursday and Friday it was an excuse for me to throw yearly bashes at my place.  Now I go to sleep about 10 seconds after the Eagles pick. 

Goodell should be sauteed in his own blood just for screwing that up. 

Seriously, name a single thing about the league and game that's better since he took over. 

farg that guy. 

[ice grillin you]

There were only a small handful of players from last year's first round who made any impact at all in their rookie season. Some will grow into a role but most will be busts. I get less excited about the draft these days because, unless you're picking one of the rare can't-miss guys, the drafted player is probably not going to lead to quick success for your team. There's a ton of hype around the draft but most of those guys will suck balls in the NFL, no matter how good they look on college tape.

This right here.

this is no different than 5/10/15/20/25 years ago...this draft is just particularly weak

i highly doubt anyone is just now coming to the conclusion that theres no guarantee that the player your team picks will be great or even good...it probably has more to do with just getting older and not caring about sports as much as you used to.....this is what happens with most people

[QB Eagles]

Ruining the concept of the draft party is probably my least favorite Goodell move, at least from a fan perspective. I used to get together with ten buddies who support ten different teams and we'd all goof on each other's picks. Now that has to wait until fantasy football season.

Best memory of these parties was a Cowboys fan yelling at the TV for Jerry to take DJax, twice, and then the Eagles taking him while my friend (accurately) cried about Felix Jones being an obvious Arkansas fanboy pick.

I think everyone gets that there's no guarantee a pick works out, but I think there's low awareness of just how bad the odds actually are, and the hype machine of course does nothing to address that fact. It is somewhat amazing that with all the analysis tools and tape floating around, and all the money on the line, the evaluation process is still such a crapshoot. It's legitimately tough to grade players. Even the teams we think draft well are whiffing more than they hit.

[MDS]

Ruining the concept of the draft party is probably my least favorite Goodell move, at least from a fan perspective. I used to get together with ten buddies who support ten different teams and we'd all goof on each other's picks. Now that has to wait until fantasy football season.

i know people did this kind of thing and loved it, but putting the 1st round of the draft in primetime on a weeknight is better for fans. ratings are higher and HUT levels (households using television) are much stronger on a thursday night than saturday afternoon.

[PhillyPhreak54]

lil guy the corporate tv shill chimes in

[Rome]

Ruining the concept of the draft party is probably my least favorite Goodell move, at least from a fan perspective. I used to get together with ten buddies who support ten different teams and we'd all goof on each other's picks. Now that has to wait until fantasy football season.

i know people did this kind of thing and loved it, but putting the 1st round of the draft in primetime on a weeknight is better for fans. ratings are higher and HUT levels (households using television) are much stronger on a thursday night than saturday afternoon.

I've read a lot of your stupidity over the years but this really is a special kind of idiotic. 

[General_Failure]

Translation: Football fans hate it, still watch it. Regular jagoffs now watch it also.

[MDS]

Ruining the concept of the draft party is probably my least favorite Goodell move, at least from a fan perspective. I used to get together with ten buddies who support ten different teams and we'd all goof on each other's picks. Now that has to wait until fantasy football season.

i know people did this kind of thing and loved it, but putting the 1st round of the draft in primetime on a weeknight is better for fans. ratings are higher and HUT levels (households using television) are much stronger on a thursday night than saturday afternoon.

I've read a lot of your stupidity over the years but this really is a special kind of idiotic.

saturday afternoons in the spring arent exactly prime tv hours....yea sure football geeks and binge drinkers are going to go nuts, but thats just a fraction of the audience. most people have better things to do with a warm weather weekend than sit in the house and watch a rich republican funhole read the names of 20 year old black dudes.

thursday nights are much more viewer friendly. which is why ratings have gone through the roof.

i get that some people really liked planning their day around it and getting obliterated, but again, thats a very small percentage of the overall viewing audience. in a democratic society, we dont cater to the needs of the few. please conform. thank you.

[Geowhizzer]

Translation: Football fans hate it, still watch it. Regular jagoffs now watch it also.

[Rome]

If it weren't for a life-long addiction to this stupid sport and an unhealthy attachment to a city/region I left more than a quarter century ago, I would have dusted those losers forever.

I hate pretty much everything about the Eagles now.  I can't stand their Hoyda of an owner, I hate the greed displayed by all concerned, the game as it's played now is for sissies, and they can't even have the decency to show most games when and where they were traditionally played (1:00 on Sundays).   

Everything is money, money, money, tv, tv, tv and farg the rank and file fan who made it what it was.

It says more about my inability to shake bad habits that I still remotely care about this nonsense than anything else.

[ice grillin you]

i actually miss the draft not being on all day sunday more than the first round not being on Saturday

this year me and sunny have phils nats at 4pm into a two man draft party at my house for the first round....par-tay!

[smeags]

so you're having an all-day sausage fest with your bestie. 

[MDS]

If it weren't for a life-long addiction to this stupid sport and an unhealthy attachment to a city/region I left more than a quarter century ago, I would have dusted those losers forever.

I hate pretty much everything about the Eagles now.  I can't stand their Hoyda of an owner, I hate the greed displayed by all concerned, the game as it's played now is for sissies, and they can't even have the decency to show most games when and where they were traditionally played (1:00 on Sundays).   

Everything is money, money, money, tv, tv, tv and farg the rank and file fan who made it what it was.

It says more about my inability to shake bad habits that I still remotely care about this nonsense than anything else.

so every company can make as much money as it wants and you can make as much money as you want, but the nfl cant make as much as it wants because some things slightly inconvenience you

[ice grillin you]

decision is in the eagles hands right now....for a swap of 2 and 8 cleveland will accept a 3 this year and the birds 1 and 3 next year