That's No Moon

Good. This allows me to see "Bills release Bryan Cox" That will bring me joy. I don't care what his father says at this point. He can kiss both cheeks of my prodigious ass.

Had a conversation today about high school football. Lots of contingency plans being discussed/made if the season can't start on time or if it is interrupted. I'm sure the NCAA and various conferences are having the same kinda of discussions. They want to play. We all want to play. What happens if we can't? If you were coming back for your senior or redshirt junior year and there is substantial concern that there won't be a season there are some real motivations to come out. If a school is closed the kids can't train correctly and they don't have access to facilities. Without campus dining many of them won't be able to eat correctly/maintain weight. For linemen that's a big issue. If they come out they get their contract and then aren't staking everything on a season that might not happen. Think of it this way, if you were a baseball player who was drafted last year as a junior, knowing what you know now would you have come out then or gone back for your senior year? There will be many kids who chose to go back, never had a senior year, and will see their stock drop in this year's draft. Sure, the NCAA gave spring athletes an extra year of eligibility. That's good for kids who aren't going pro. If you are going pro it just makes you a year older. If Trevor Lawrence decided to come out in the supplemental draft there would surely be a feeding frenzy to acquire him and he would be paid now what he would be paid next year as a first round choice.

But what if we never punt....

Taiwan Jones ran a 4.3 and change. he must be good.

someday they will change the combine so that it makes sense. Have them do those drills in pads and helmets because it absolutely does make a difference.

Looking at his twitter feed he likes wings so he will have a least a short time in nirvana.

49ers, per Rappaport

I was going to go with my cousin LeighAnn but this response works.

There has been a lot of that yeah, but there hasn't been a lot of going after players with character issues or teams for doing dumb stuff. The hardest I think they went after anyone was Jacob Eason and even that was pretty mild.

Yeah, I meant about the players and the teams. They seem to be going out of their way to emphasize the potential positives of each player to each team. In past years the Eagles would get hammered for taking Hurts in the 2nd for example.

Anybody else feel like the broadcast is more positive this year? Way fewer strong negative takes even when teams do things that are really out of left field

Plus Beane has come out and talked about how jacked up the UDFA process is going to be this year so I suspect they didn't want to play games and just use the pick to take the player

My Dad has directv since 1996, customer service has gone to hell since AT&T bought them.

I told my son last night as we were watching the draft. "It doesn't matter if you're the commissioner of the league, your wife is still going to tell you to put your football ***** in the basement."

by the league. They hand in the card, they tip the pick to the NFLN broadcast, they talk into Mayock's ear. It's not that hard. How many times do they obviously wait to announce the pick until the broadcast is done talking and ready for them to? Answer, all the time. The other thing is they obviously pick out teams they are going to hammer every year no matter what they do. They can talk both ways about any player depending on who takes them. It's not a factual broadcast. It's a made for TV event and they interject intrigue and drama to increase viewer interest.

Utah State does a pretty good version of it. I have to say, if you could get 70k people to do it, it would be pretty hype.

Tiger style.

So people are totally going to put lawn chairs on Beane's lawn Thursday, right?

Ask Devils fans if they want to give that Cup back.

They told him he needed to update his Windows to 10. Hence, busting out walls.

and they could do all of those things already. If anything all of the internal IT departments and League Security have been running around like madmen to make sure all the mouthbreathers in the front office don't have "football" as their password.

That didn't happen. #FakeNews

Howard is an excellent athlete who didn't produce in college and hasn't produced in the NFL. No thank you.

Fine, you're right. It's much too difficult and the risk of compromise is much too great. The draft is postponed until everyone can drive to a common, secret, underground location where they can be sure nobody will see their proprietary information. The broadcast is going to be on a delay like it always is. If somebody jacks the teleconference they will just shut it down. That's all. No big deal. Nobody will get the opportunity to do anything outlandish. You stop the process and continue it later or whenever you feel like. Nobody will die if a CB from Texas A&I doesn't get drafted until next Tuesday. Will it be annoying? Yes. Will it be disruptive? Yes. Is any of that reason to not do it? No.

I'm not arguing that it's not more streamlined but let's not act like this is impossible or even difficult.