2020 GMO Draft

The Los Angeles Chargers Select
Myles Dorn, S - North Carolina

 

Patriots are OTC

@Underdog

 

I was standing by to approve the trade, but as noted in the PM, too late now...

 

Never fear, underdog will soon be here!

 

Los Angeles Chargers
1(6) Justin Herbert, QB - Oregon
1(21) Kristian Fulton, CB - LSU
3(20) Isaiah Wilson, OT - Georgia
7(6) David Woodward, ILB - Utah State
7(20) Myles Dorn, S - North Carolina

Transition Tagged Hunter Henry
Tendered Austin Ekeler
Tendered Michael Davis
Signed Kelvin Beachum
Other small crap

All done

 

I’m thinking the league would break up the home and away schedule in 4 week blocks to cut down on cross Atlantic flights. Set up a training facility and practice center here in the states that mirrors the one in England.

Free agency may be tricky, but if the league could work it out so that players paid less in taxes abroad and also earned a type of per diem for expenses incurred with relocation, then a savvy owner should be able to market and sell the team to players and make them eager to join.

 

I've said before that I'm all in favor of expanding the duration of the postseason rather than the regular season, and for that matter wouldn't mind going back to a shorter regular season.

The Australian Football League ("footy", not football as we know it) has an interesting twist on their postseason. At first I didn't like it, but the more I think about it the more I believe it would really work for the NFL, especially if we're planning to expand the playoffs anyway.

In the AFL, the top 8 teams make the Finals series. In the NFL, that would be the four division winners and FOUR wild card teams per conference. Yeah, that sounds like too many wild card teams. But the twist is that the first week is a qualifying week. The four wild card teams play each other, with the winners earning the two wild card spots and the losers eliminated, like what MLB started doing.

Meanwhile, the four division winners also play, with the #1 seed playing the #4 seed while #2 plays #3. The winners of those games get a bye the following week and will host the games two weeks later. The losers are NOT eliminated. The following week they host the wild card teams.

So you get an extra week of playoffs, and when it's over you still get exactly the same playoff system we had before. Two wild card teams play division winners while two other division winners get byes.

I like that the top seeds have to win a playoff game to earn their bye. That way teams aren't rewarded so much for playing in a weaker division. It does open the door for two marginal teams per conference to get into the postseason, but they have to earn the right to continue by beating the other wild card teams before they get to face the division winners.

 

If @Underdog and @xinik chill around after their pick we could honestly get all the way to the last pick tonight.

 

I have been trying... But I have to go soon my son will be down here bothering me any minute.

 

I should be around will check in again later in the evening, have a homework assignment to finish up. In the meantime Patriots select:

RB Benny LeMay, Charlotte

 

PACKERS OTC followed by BRONCOS

@Tim 2X

 

FALCONS recap:

Falcons draft only makes sense when considering the different things I did (or more to the point, did NOT do) in FA compared to the real team and that I role-played Thomas Dimitroff in the draft.

Big picture: I did NOT release Desmond Trufant or Devonta Freeman or Luke Stocker or Ty Sambrailo in cap moves the way the real team did. I get a chuckle out of that, because it means I essentially signed a starting CB, a starting RB, a starting caliber TE (or hybrid TE/FB) and a swing tackle (and blocking TE as a tackle-eligible).

I also gained two pretty high comp picks next year for the loss of Vic Beasley and Austin Hooper in free agency.
And I did all of that in complete silence. Damn, I'm good...

I also lost Devondre Campbell in free agency, released the ancient Matt Schaub in a cap move, and have not yet resigned my backup center.

In Dimitroff fashion (pure needs, shopping list style), I replaced all of them in the draft. I took two fast LBs with coverage skills to join Deion Jones and Foye Oluokun. I also tacked on a center to groom for the future, a developmental QB, and just for giggles took a possible PR/KR guy in the sixth round. For whatever reason Dimitroff keeps drafting those guys late, so I did the same.

Most important move so far = beefing up the coaching staff. I didn't like the offensive staff in 2017 and traded a draft pick to get Bill Musgrave. This time around I hired him plus a trio of young assistants for specific position groups, and also two more assistants for the defensive staff. I named them all in the free agency thread.

Big assumption: with Musgrave on board, the team would move to a man blocking scheme rather than sticking with outside zone. If outside zone is still the priority, the OL is a problem. If it's more a traditional man scheme, we're all set - and should actually be pretty good with solid depth.

Still have minor holes left to fill via UDFA or bargain rack free agency, such as fullback or blocking TE. I also plan to resign my own free agents that no one else wanted, plus sign a TE from the XFL (the real team signed him) for extra depth.

 

The Green Bay Packers select: TerShawn Wharton, EDGE - Missouri S&T

 

The Denver Broncos select: Mosese Fifita, DL - Air Force

 

Via PM:

The Giants select

Kevin Dotson, OG - Louisiana LaFayette

 

Vikings are OTC

@Willie

 

7.25

the VIKINGS select; Aaron Fuller, WR - Washington

 

@RTTRUTH OTC

@Underdog on deck

 

Eh what the heck...

Patriots select CB Javelin Guidry, Utah