Posted by Travis Rodgers on Mar 31, 2010

NFL Draft Primer…It Sucks #NFL

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The NFL Draft is in three weeks. Frankly, it can’t get here fast enough. Not because I care who gets chosen, I don’t. Not because I want to see how I did with my mock draft, I don’t have one. It’s not even because I think the ‘experts’ have it all wrong, and I know who the real ‘sleepers’, and ‘risers and fallers’ really are. I don’t care.

I want the draft to get here for one simple reason. So it can end. So it can go away and all the absurdity surrounding people guessing at the futures of college football players can go away...for about three weeks.

No one knows anything, Not Mel Kiper, not Todd McShay, not me, not you, not anyone. If anyone really knew who was going to be a star and who was going to be the next punchline, no one would ever have chosen Ryan Leaf as the number two pick and Tom Brady wouldn’t have stuck around until the sixth round. No one knows jack.

The only thing even remotely interesting or entertaining about the actual draft is seeing which poor sucker is the last one left in the green room. Who is going to be 2010's Matt Leinart, Aaron Rodgers, or Brady Quinn? Smile, Tim Tebow. Watching overgrown, over fed, enormous human beings awkwardly shake hands with Roger Goodell is not good television.

Can't miss...for losers.

In fact, the list of what people actually do know with regards to the draft is so small it can be listed here:

...Whoever the Raiders pick will be terrible. Fact. Exhibit A: Russell, JaMarcus. Peruse their roster for more examples.

...Fans will either hate their team’s picks with an irrational hatred or think that their head coach and GM are certified geniuses. No one will have even a single moment of rational, reasonable thought.

...No one will know anything about their picks until their guys play in a, you know, real game.

That’s the list. Here is the list of the things that experts, fans and pundits don’t know:

...Everything else.

It’s all posturing, speculation, guessing and screaming. The NFL has done an amazing job of turning their league into a 12 month addiction, but the hysteria surrounding the draft is just stupid.

I can’t wait for it to get here, just so it can end.