When we say that NFL draft coverage has consumed sports talk radio for the last two months, hyperbole has been left by the side of the highway an hour's ride down the road. Indeed, the endless lip-flapping about the draft bordered on mental illness.
Despite a weekend including the biggest boxing match in years, the Kentucky Derby, exciting NHL playoffs, NBA playoffs and the start of the MLB season, the draft monopolized time and attention for weeks on end. Sports coverage on radio and TV prattled on about the same two or three draft questions so obsessively it made Rain Man seem less like a movie and more like real life.
Eighty percent of the discussion revolved around two players and 80% of the rest focused on another half dozen or so. Every possible permutation of repositioning spent time in analysis, as if it was Woody Allen.
"Experts" pontificated endlessly about what they "think" teams were going to do, though they didn't actually have any information. They sometimes worked with the disinformation that's run up the flagpole by teams banking on dopey media members with more airtime to fill than brains. In nearly every case these "ideas" involved some complex trade full of intrigue and in need of four more segments of analysis.
And so what transpired on the first draft day? A big, fat, overblown, anti-climactic pile of nothing, that's what. Team selected more or less in order the most logical prospects. The first two picks, about whom seven billion hours of speculation had been spilled on air, went just as one could have predicted during the first snows of January.
Has the sports media been chastened? Are you kidding: that would require self-awareness unavailable to people suffering from this form of mental retardation. While teams are held accountable for every good choice that turned out poorly, sports media members simply continue talking.
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I'd love to see ESPN do a draft special comparing their analysis with eventual results. Theyd look like asses.
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