A friendly reminder: DONT TIP PICKS

[Nitro]

18 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

But the broadcast comes at different times for different people. It varies more than you would think. My son can be a play or two ahead or behind during a game. 

That is true.  I stream WGR broadcast.  Sometimes they are ahead and others behind and ESPN gamecast is ahead often.  Such is the time we live in.  Better than only 3 channels.  

[Low Positive]

18 minutes ago, Dunkirk Donski said:

With the 1st pick in the 2025 nfl draft the Buffalo bills select:  Double D, from Dunkirk NY

5’7” 145lb star quarterback from Birdsall Community College and four time WGR mvp caller on line 6. 

sorry to break this boys, but you heard it here first 😎👍🏻

But he couldn't come to the stage because he had to step into a high-level business meeting.

[boyst]

3 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

I said CB.  Lol.  In hindsight though, drafting three running backs in the first round pry was a major contributor to the drought.  Where were you when we needed you analytics?

I get it, it's not analytics though.. as you realize. It's insane that we did that I'm one of those guys that says draft a cornerback and a running back every year in the late rounds and always get an offensive or defensive lineman in the top four picks every year. 

 

I've got some weird ideas though if I was in charge, I would scour all of the college tape, look at every metric, and find a 6 ft 300 lb offensive lineman or defensive lineman that ran very fast and looks like he could be a big bruising fullback. I would draft him and then tell him he's going to be a fullback. Short yardage Downs I would have them in there and fullback. Short yardage Downs I might even put them under center.

[White Linen]

22 minutes ago, Nitro said:

I find it annoying to have a pick posted here before it is on the broadcast.   

 

I personally watch the broadcast too but as Augie said, even "broadcast" is different based on streaming, vs satellite, etc.  

 

I'm 50, my sons are 20 and 18, we consume information differently.  Their buddies are on Twitter too and they all give each other crap about who their teams picked.  

 

I don't have a dog in the fight but I disagree with Gonzo and others calling other postera a holes or ignorant because they don't get information through ESPN or the NFL Network.  

 

I'm with Simon and Chandler, etc about just setting the standard so there's an understanding of how it will be done on TBD.  But the name calling is a bit over the top for me.  It's not even tipping pics, it's getting info different is all.

[Simon]

4 minutes ago, White Linen said:

I don't have a dog in the fight but I disagree with Gonzo and others calling other postera a holes or ignorant because they don't get information through ESPN or the NFL Network.  

 

I don't disagree, but I think it's less reflective of Gonzo and more indicative of how much it reallllly pisses people off.

[Buffalo Junction]

5 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Tipping picks gives me flashbacks to my wedding that was on the day of the 2009 draft.  After a grueling 45 seconds of foreplay, just as I was about to consummate “christening” my wife, she yelled out “The Bills drafted MAYBIN?  This is the worst night of my life!”

 

 

That’s bad. If it’s any consolation… at the exact same moment my best friend threw the remote through my tv screen. 

[pennstate10]

6 hours ago, Simon said:

 

Fair warning:

Tipping picks is an instant suspension, either in real time or if I see later that you had been doing it.

Have some respect for the rest of the community and just don't do it.

 

 

 

Just avoid it altogether; trying to manage two different threads is a pita and not worth it

 

 

That would be fantastic and I would amend it to "announced the pick on the network broadcast".

Not sure I understand this logic. 
would you ban a poster if he (she, they, it, them) posted “next play is a deep shot to Knox” in the in game thread?

Cause that’s the same as tipping that Giants are taking Carter. 
Maybe it right, maybe not. 
 

[The Jokeman]

4 minutes ago, pennstate10 said:

Not sure I understand this logic. 
would you ban a poster if he (she, they, it, them) posted “next play is a deep shot to Knox” in the in game thread?

Cause that’s the same as tipping that Giants are taking Carter. 
Maybe it right, maybe not. 
 

The draft about the build up and discussion of picks. Those of us that prefer to watch on TV don't want to be spoiled, Game day threads get so busy that a play tip usually gets buried before the play comes on screen.

Edited Thursday at 11:59 PM by The Jokeman

[Simon]

1 minute ago, pennstate10 said:

Cause that’s the same as tipping that Giants are taking Carter. 

 

Sorry, but I simply don't see any equivalency between a prediction and a despoiling

Just now, The Jokeman said:

The draft about the build up and discussion of picks. Those of us that prefer to watch on don't want to be spoiled, Game day threads get so busy that a play tip usually gets buried before the play comes on screen.

 

He said it way better

[frostbitmic]

This is weird

[muppy]

Just now, frostbitmic said:

This is weird

I'm ready and buckled in come what may. Because it usually does on Day 1.

 

Go Bills  🙂

[White Linen]

43 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

I don't disagree, but I think it's less reflective of Gonzo and more indicative of how much it reallllly pisses people off.

 

No I get that, and that's why I like the standard/ mods decision.  I just think it's potentially unfair to think everyone who knows the pic and wants to then come here, is automatically doing it to be nasty.  They could want to just come here and talk about it,  because they don't watch broadcast and know about it 4 minutes earlier.

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 12:35 AM by White Linen

[GunnerBill]

14 hours ago, White Linen said:

 

No I get that, and that's why I like the standard/ mods decision.  I just think it's potentially unfair to think everyone who knows the pic and wants to then come here, is automatically doing it to be nasty.  They could want to just come here and talk about it,  because they don't watch broadcast and know about it 4 minutes earlier.

 

 

 

 

From my part there are two particular posters - one I don't think posts here any more and one who I think does who a couple of years ago were tipping every single pick, being asked to stop, then told to stop, then warned by a mod to stop and just carried on. When I refer to idiots who just want to ruin the enjoyment for others that is who I am talking about. If someone arrives here unsuspecting because they have seen something on twitter, posts in the draft thread, unaware that they are tipping picks I wouldn't call them an idiot. But that is not what we have dealt with in previous years. It was particularly bad that one year... I think 2022. It's been better since. And last night was perfect. 

[gonzo1105]

Yes , thank you last night. There wasn’t one tipped pick with maybe the exception of the Steelers pick. We appreciate it 

[papazoid]

my PFF app had some picks known 5 minutes before they announced it on ESPN.

[Captain Hindsight]

5 minutes ago, gonzo1105 said:

Yes , thank you last night. There wasn’t one tipped pick with maybe the exception of the Steelers pick. We appreciate it 

Keon Coleman was tipping picks, but didnt type fast enough to actually spoil them

[Simon]

34 minutes ago, gonzo1105 said:

Yes , thank you last night. There wasn’t one tipped pick with maybe the exception of the Steelers pick. We appreciate it 

 

There were two but I was lucky enough to catch them quickly and address the issue

[Goin Breakdown]

This board was "tipping picks" all night for me because I was obviously on a delay. Whose fault is that?  Is the first person to say anything the bad guy? When is too soon to post?  Streams and broadcasts varied all night.  everyone says "wait until the commish announces it, it's that easy". Well that's what I did and we were already a page or so deep in discussion. 
Its not that I care exactly, but its seems there was a standard that wasn't ( or can't be exactly) lived by. 
 

[GASabresIUFan]

TV needs to do a better job of getting the picks out and broadcast simultaneously with X.

[GunnerBill]

1 minute ago, GASabresIUFan said:

TV needs to do a better job of getting the picks out and broadcast simultaneously with X.

 

That isn't possible. Because the folks on X know the name before it is even written on a card let alone given to the commissioner. They have access to the official league wire. You'd literally just have to have Rog stand out there all night with an ear piece in and say the name into the mic the second it comes down the wire. Because that is what the twitter accounts are doing as soon as that name comes down they take 1 second to type, press a button and the world knows.