Should the draft be slower?

[Manster7588]

Dude, your ideas are pretty much the worst. So, now instead of waiting 90 minutes for the bears to pick, I’ll have to wait 270 minutes? How about no.

We'd be watching the draft through week 2 of preseason

 

[mgomrjsurf]

I think the timing is just right. They’ve extended the draft into a whole weekend.

Also needs to be on Sunday 7 and 8 with with 5 and 6 on Saturday,3 and 4 on Friday and 1 and 2 on Thursday. Also follow NHL Teams come up to announce pick and GM's live to talk Trades and right at start of NFL Offseason. I know on ABC but Fox and so on to with their crews Charlie Davis on CBS coverage and Joel Platt on Fox's and somebody could hirer Mike Mahlock.

 

[Debbie Does]

So whose perspective are you looking for?

The teams might use the time, or they might not. As mentioned several times, an ill-prepared team deserves what they get.

The networks and advertisers might have different views. 30 minute picks are going to make rounds take forever. After the first few picks, advertisers will see how much viewership drops and how many sports fans get up and do laundry. Remember, it's going to be the shit teams getting those first round early picks. Nobody's going to sit through 16 hours of one full round.

And then there's the fans. Who's going to sit through that? A couple of picks and I can grill up brats and beans or skewers of beef, serve dinner and serve 6 people. I could watch Gone with the Wind. It's good background noise in a bar, I suppose. (Or is it? I was at a bar where one of the bartender's cousins was a projected first rounder. He ended up as a mid- to late pick. Not much excitement.)

For me? I'll look at the list online a few days later. I don't need the hype that the coverage will become.

 

[Dude]

F no! A lot of time is wasted with Goodell hugging players for a few minutes each, sort of ghey tbh.

 

[shopson67]

I watch from beginning to end more or less and the league is already sandbagging the announcement of the picks to fit in all the nonsense. Instead of trying to control the information leaks, announce the picks as they are made instead of delaying them for the special interest crap.

One of these broadcasting networks needs to actually report the day 3 stuff consistently too, instead of filling with day 1 rehashes. If you can't have hosts that are prepared enough to discuss 7th round picks, try harder.

 

[Battlelyon]

You got that moron Mike Greenberg crying for a draft lottery.

 

[Manster7588]

You got that moron Mike Greenberg crying for a draft lottery.

I heard that this afternoon.

 

[Battlelyon]

The NBA should be trying to learn from the NFL and not vice versa