2014 NFL Draft Thread

[Diomedes]

I won't like the draft until it's stretched over ten days, one Saturday through the next Monday:

Round one preview all day Saturday. 
Actual round one picks on Sunday.
Analysis on Monday.
Preview Tuesday for
Round 2 on Wednesday.
Breakdown on Thursday.
Round 3 Friday night.
Wrap up round three Saturday morning and then Round 4 picks Saturday night.
Round 5 and half of Round 6 on Sunday.
Last half of round 6 and round 7 on Monday, then a Special Primetime Monday Night with the guys to jerk off over the whole thing.

[General_Failure]

Half hour per pick, every round. Instead of just talking heads and college highlights, undrafted players can elect to participate in draft day workouts for a chance to improve their stock. Also, the Raiders start a lottery to see who they'll pick every round.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Goodell has completely farged everything up.

London games....draft....stupid rule changes

[Rome]

Don't forget trying to switch it to 18 games, 14 teams in the playoffs, disallowing players celebrations, making the defense all but irrelevant by gearing everything toward the offense, etc.

All they give a shtein about is money.  The game itself isn't even third or fourth on the list.

[ice grillin you]

exactly...also dont forget more and more flex games

I especially hate the extra playoff teams....its perfect right now....most teams can win it all and the games are mostly really good

what I hate more than anything tho is his idea of putting games on every night eventually.....farging tuesday nite nfl??....that would water down the product so much

sundays is what made the nfl and why it is/was so special

what kills me is they can make a million changes having to do with the schedule but the one thing they should do....putting the super bowl on sat....they wont

[Rome]

NFL football belongs at 1:00 on Sundays unless your team is playing west of the Mississippi, and honestly, no one there deserves a goddamn team anyway.  Monday nights suck, Sunday nights are worse and don't even get me started on weekdays.  Seriously, if Goodell and the networks get their wish, we as fans should simply stop watching.  Getting rid of my season tickets was the second to final straw for me anyway.  I don't have a financial connection with those dickfaces anymore so if they keep the unfettered money whoring going, I might just say farg it and spend time doing other things on Sundays.  And Saturdays, Mondays, etc...

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah the expanded schedule and extra playoff teams is really farging stupid. And I agree on the games being on different days.

I like the Sunday/Monday with the couple late season Saturday tilts. Like how it was 10-15yrs ago.

Now the Thursday shtein is nothing but a money grab. Same as the preseason being charged full price

[General_Failure]

My personal favorite dumb move was when they gave EA exclusive rights to make NFL video games. Has anyone actually bought a copy of Madden in the last ten years because it was good? Of course not. People only buy Madden because they buy it every year, they want these particular roster updates, or they got a new console.

But yeah, putting half the teams in the playoffs is a dumb move, too.

[Diomedes]

disallowing players celebrations

He's right as rain on this count.

Show some farging respect for your opponent, for the sport, for the fans who are trying to teach their kids to be decent to each other, etc.

[ice grillin you]

disallowing players celebrations

He's right as rain on this count.

Show some farging respect for your opponent, for the sport, for the fans who are trying to teach their kids to be decent to each other, etc.

lol...this is first rate trolling on your part

I refuse to believe any semi literate non racist adult male under the age of 50 would say something like this much less believe that a football celebration would somehow teach kids to not be decent to each other

well done sir

[Rome]

I'm not talking about taunting opponents, Dio.  I'm talking about having fun and celebrating with the fans.  I personally hate stupid shtein like the Lambeau Leap and the Fun Bunch crap, but dunking the ball over the upright is about as vanilla as it gets and they're even forbidding that now.   What's next... spiking the ball?

No Fun League, indeed.

[hbionic]

If I was the leader of the NFL, I would expand the rosters to 140. If a defensive player's assignment scores, that defender gets torn limb from limb and is cannibalized by his team mates. There's no better motivator than cannibalization. Other than toss salad man of course. 

[ice grillin you]

I'm not talking about taunting opponents, Dio.  I'm talking about having fun and celebrating with the fans.  I personally hate stupid shtein like the Lambeau Leap and the Fun Bunch crap, but dunking the ball over the upright is about as vanilla as it gets and they're even forbidding that now.   What's next... spiking the ball?

No Fun League, indeed.

if you had a problem with the fun bunch or have a problem with the lambeau leap then you are pretty much roger goodell

did they eventually play themselves out sure....but in their infancy and for a time after those things were awesome

[General_Failure]

If you spent more than six seconds thinking up and choreographing your celebration, you spent too much time on it. But it isn't my time, so I don't give too much of a damn.

[Rome]

There's a difference between disliking them personally and advocating for their banishment, IGY.   I don't like them but I think legislating them out of the league is idiotic. 

Again, I'm an "act like you've been there before" kind of guy but that doesn't mean I think showboating should be penalized.  The opposite, actually.  I think if a guy showboats then it's the opponents' responsibility to stop him and then remind him why acting like that ain't gonna be tolerated between the lines.   Let the players settle it, not some desk-bound paper-pushing douchebag lawyer.