This is the feeling you have to come to terms with as a prerequisite to becoming a Chicago Bears fan. You have my understanding and condolences.
I'm not sure "anxious" is the right word for how I'm feeling over Atlanta's pick tonight. One of the big things for me is that I'm still trying to get my arms around the new GM's balance between need and BPA. He seems to be somewhere in between. With Dimitroff, I knew - he was 100% pure need-based. When I did my CBS blog, I was at a media event where he also openly said he didn't like to trade down in the first round. He said that felt like giving up the best Christmas present under the tree. With Fontenot, I really don't have a good feel for his approach quite yet. I'm hoping this year will make it easier to get a read on him. But otherwise, I'm not even sure what I would really be hoping for him to do. I'd probably be most excited if he traded down first. @LAOJoe 's brother @Falcons Guy did that in the mock. I was very happy to see that, to the point that I can say it was worth stepping aside and letting him take the Falcons just because h
Bears, Browns, Jets, Lions (they’ve been better since Stafford pick, but still). You definitely aren’t alone
Its so ingrained into my being it doesn't even register. I never knew any differently. Mayhew had his problems. Drafted talented players but never meshed together. I think similar things are happening in Washington. Patriot Bob never really got why the Patriots were great. (Market inefficiencies got them more talented players at lower cost plus TB signed for less than he was "worth") He'd just pay to get Patriot castoffs, which were castoffs for a reason. Brad Holmes meshes with me more than the previous two. Which I don't know if its good or not. Which I'm hopeful he doesn't take a corner at 6. Rumor is Anderson falls to 6.
If anyone who hasn't named UDFAs yet wants to do so, feel free. We had two rounds of UDFAs yesterday and we're in our first of two rounds today. All you would have to do is name your team and the as-yet-undrafted and unsigned player that you want, such as: Kansas City signs Big Jim Slade, TE, Faber College
Nope. I'm not letting that fly. We all had an even playing field. We had an earlier deadline. It was the first or second year of the challenge. At the 11th hour news came that someone was gonna crash down the board. I didn't allow anyone including myself to make changes once they submitted their list. Everyone would have had some changes for sure, including myself. I won on Mr. Irrelevant being selected from my completely ignore players list. Cheta Ozougwu. Give me the asterisk all you want. You need to be officially on the champ list before you can have one.
Exactly my point, an earlier deadline. We got information 5 minutes after the deadline but over an hour before the draft but weren’t allowed to change one pick due to new failed drug test info. Only myself and Irish affected. And what’s the deadline every year since, later than that. I don’t consider that an even playing field. Had the information been disclosed even 1 hour sooner it would not have been an issue. It was dumb luck but still. The penalty from that pick alone cost me the ship that year
More people would have listed him as a faller, and some other changes would have changed things. So there is no guarantee you or I would have won. The deadline was arbitrary so we changed it later but it kept everything equal. Letting a few people change it late would have pissed off people that missed a chance to change it had they been there when they thought it was already closed. Anyways I say the thread up. Anything needed to be known about UDFAs/7th rounders? I put in a note on the challenge but I can change that if it's no good. @Torgo too?
I know, my argument wasn’t that the entire group should be able to make changes. My argument was simply hey we just found out that two guys specifically failed their drug test at the combine, and two of us picked that exact person as a riser. Can we simply change that one pick? Since something none of us could’ve known would obviously result in him not rising, it seemed like a fair request. No way we could have known. The draft had not even come close to starting yet. I guess in my mind it played out that 10 of us were trying to make 24 pics based on all available information and it would be a “level playing field”. In the end eight of us got to make 24 pics with all available information but only two of us were restricted to making 23 picks with all available information, and got screwed on the remaining one by making our decision with only partial information. Or at least that is how I perceive what happened there. It wasn’t like I just decided 15 minutes after the deadline I didn’t like one of my picks because someone reported on Twitter the teams didn’t like his S2 test. I did not even have Twitter back in those days. New information became available that drastically altered the value of a particular player. How could we have known…
