2020 GMO Draft

For the record, Joe and I are going to pin down an exact date for the official mock today sometime.

It will likely start on or very close to April 13

 

The mods are thinking we will do a UDFA free-for-all at noon tomorrow. 2 Signings each. First to announce the name gets the name

Does this work for anyone interested?

 

Well, they haven't exactly kept the draft as is. They already publicly announced that all the public stuff is canceled. What hasn't been officially announced but has been implied by a few people (Rich McKay, head of competition committee in one interview, for example) is that it will probably all be done by phone or video conference.

The logistics will be a bit trickier with all the potential for technical issues, and they might have to expand the time slots just to make sure things run smoothly.

Pure guess on my part = separate stages of the information chain to keep the operation simpler. Teams will know in advance how to contact each other. Team will be in direct contact with the league directly, turning in the names and confirming via phone. The league will also have a conference line with the teams informing them of each pick, making the clock start times official etc so that all teams officially receive this information at once.

The league then posts a separate group feed - phone, video chat, simple message board, whatever - to reps from ESPN, FOX, NFL-N, BBC, whoever with the details of picks and trades, just to give them that information. Might be a minute or two delay, but that will be entirely irrelevant. The networks are free to do their own thing.

 

Maybe they should just use a Google Spreadsheet.

 

For the feed to the media, that works perfectly.

Just don't give anybody else write/edit access. The idiots at ESPN would wreck the entire spreadsheet.

 

If you need me to take on an extra team, just let me know. I'll be happy to do it.

 

I’m pretty sure we will. So once we get it narrowed down a bit more, we’ll let you choose from a few teams that are left

 

right on.

 

ATTENTION

UDFA begins tomorrow at noon -
https://live4sportnetwork.com/forum/threads/2020-gmo-draft-udfa.28905/#post-710343

 

AWESOME!

I love this shit. lol!

Bring your A-game fella's...

 

Don't need to. If I down enough beer every team I handled is about to win the Superbowl. Real Talk

 

Gotta get my likely final cuts depth chart made. I think I did better than I thought I would heading into this.

 

WASHINGTON REDSKINS GMO SUMMARY
Starting cap space: $58,967,545
Current cap space: $14,486,329
DRAFT
1.2 CHASE YOUNG, EDGE - Ohio State
2.10 JALEN REAGOR, WR - T.C.U.
3.2 CLYDE EDWARDS-HELAIRE, RB - L.S.U.
3.19 AMIK ROBERTSON. CB - Auburn
4.36 JAVARIS DAVIS, CB - Auburn
7.15 TREVIS GIPSON, EDGE - Tulsa

Franchise tagged Brandon Scherff
Traded Trent Williams for two #2's
Traded 7.2 for Josh Rosen

KEY FREE AGENCY SIGNINGS
OT Bryan Bulaga
TE Austin Hooper
S Jimmie Ward
CB Logan Ryan
DT Maliek Collins

 

I glossed over this earlier. I personally don’t care for all that overly produced shit anyways. The televised version of rounds 4-7 is a complete joke as it is. Now it’s just a bunch of ex-players trying to out-speech each other anyway. It’s like the H.O.F. ceremony I already don’t watch.
I would prefer random shots of the owner and five trusted scouts sitting in their draft room over what they usually do any day.

 

You are so spoiled...lol! Rounds 4-7 of a draft are actually televised!!...I'm happy with that. Who cares how they show off the picks?

 

Honestly you're almost right. Except round 6-7 are so bad I think I actually did stop watching last year for the first time in about a decade. So many interviews you start missing the picks altogether. Then they come back from commercial and have to catch you up on the last 3-4 picks. I can just watch the tracker on my phone for that kind of coverage. I wish it were just Daniel Jeremiah covering each pick as it happens.

 

I can still remember skipping school every single year. It was always a Tuesday for some reason...They started televising round one on ESPN when I was in 7th grade...But that was it. No other rounds were televised for many years.

 

lol! You're not wrong about the annoying way that they do it, but at the end of the day, I'm just happy to have the information.

 

In the last five years or so it has hit the point where both networks essentially ignore the picks for most of round seven and focus their attention on blathering about the same crap they were talking about in the wrap-up shows after the earlier rounds. I really do hope it's better this year.


I also don't care for the fan-oriented crap they do in announcing so many of the picks at remote locations now, because it's not even live anymore. With the Falcons, they missed a PRICELESS moment a few years back because of the delays.

The team had done a promotion where a fan would be announcing their pick in round five. So they had a couple of cheerleaders, Freddie Falcon (mascot), and a former player there with the fan. The former player was Jesse Tuggle, one of the all time fan favorites. The camera would go to him for him to introduce the fan, and the fan would then read the card with the selection.

If they had the cameras on and had been filming when they were live, they would have caught Tuggle's initial reaction when he heard the name as they were first setting up. As fate would have it, the pick was Clemson defensive tackle Grady Jarrett - Tuggle's son.

Instead they missed all that, Tuggle already knew about the pick and had plenty of time to regain his composure before they filmed the segment.

 

It's awful. There is no question....I guess I'm just happy that they do (via the ticker on the bottom of the screen) get the info to ya eventually.

Don't you guys remember the days when we had nothing?