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Red mentioned it in the day 2 draft thread - with the way the NFL is handling the picks, delaying their announcement until they've got all the videos and commercials out of the way, is it chancier for teams to trade up?
Are teams told who the picks that haven't been announced are? With 2 or 3 picks in limbo during those waits, it seems like they wouldn't know who is left on the board - a team could conceivably trade up to get a player who's already gone, that would make them pretty wary.
They must know, otherwise with multiple unannounced picks coming in we would eventually see the same player getting drafted twice by different teams!
Maybe the NFL could liven things up by going 'silent auction' with the whole draft.
The teams obviously know which players are unavailable once they go on the clock.
So the NFL must somehow communicate to the teams who's been taken but not announced. Not a great system for controlling leaks!
Social media? There were times when I was watching the live broadcast while following comments on this site, and it seemed like people here announced picks before the network. Anyone have Tweetdeck loaded up with a bunch of NFL Insiders during the draft?
Yes, but the leaks were hard to find after Round 1.
i'd really like to know the answer to this. when you look at the live video feeds from teams war rooms they're usually watching the same shit we are. imo, it would be very difficult but not impossible for the league to send word to all other 31 teams about who everyone is taking before its announced. it would also be shocking to find out if teams are telling each other who they are actually taking before the pick is announced.
if teams don't know what the hell is going on until everything is announced by the commish, then just how they hell are they suppose to trade up? at one point on day 1, we were 4 picks behind, meaning not only was the pick that the goodell was announcing was in, but also the next 3 team. so if a team wanted to trade up, they would have to trade up to a spot that hadn't pick yet. meaning they were trading up, not knowing who the next 4 picks were going to be
meaning, they would have no idea if the player they wanted, would still be there. so why trade up and take the gamble?
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Originally Posted by smuggler
the problem being, 4 players have been taking without being announced, when a team goes on the clock
if the nfl were to give all teams the heads up as soon as the picks came in, then that would mean all 32 war rooms would have to know. we're talking 100's if not thousands of people know.
and like PB mentioned, after the first day, the leaks dried up. that many people know, in this day and age, you think the info would have been leaked to us.
and if thats the case, the NFL has the greatest group of secret keepers in all of history
It's not an issue. As soon as one card goes in, the league informs all 32 team simultaneously at the same time they are starting the next team's clock. This can be easily accomplished with AOL instant messenger, if we want to go with 1999 technology.
If you guys don't think a MULTI BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY doesn't have some kind of software available to track the draft, you are all morons. They wouldn't make it available to the media...although some guys with connections could "leak" info from people who are with the teams. You better believe the NFL will crack down HARD on anyone they know to be leaking...which is why the "leaks" tend to start drying up. If the NFL tells you to stop it or lose your press credentials, you are going to stop. The NFL wants eyeballs on the TV, not social media. They don't make as much money if everyone is getting a scoop on Twitter.
The entire TV gig is a huge money making scheme...don't fool yourself. That is why it happens like it does. The coverage networks want the most time to blab, blab, blab and the NFL wants the first round to carry on for as long as possible.
When the next team goes on the clock, they absolutely have to know who has been picked ahead of them. How can they do their job without knowing that? Do you think one team would stand for having only a few minutes with all information available to them while others have the full 10 minutes? I doubt it.
As for leaks, teams are too busy keeping their own boards up to date, making calls, fielding calls and discussing last minute considerations to take time leaking news to media types who have nothing to offer in return. Why bother?
Just imagine the phone call if Jerry Jones had to make a pick and didn't know the last two selected. He would still be yelling at NFL Park Avenue.
you mean the same nfl that rejects advances in technology every chance it gets?Quote:
Originally Posted by King Friday
most teams and people in the war rooms are just sitting there almost doing nothing until their pick gets close. theres probably 50-100 people involved in each teams "war room". if the nfl is alerting teams, someone in the war room would then take the name off the board. it wouldn't be too hard for intern jimmy to look at the board, send out a text to a friend, who then tweets the pick. maybe jimmy can get a few extra bucks by doing it
we didn't see that
if the nfl really did have the ability to let all teams know every pick before they were announced AND managed to keep everyone involved from leaking the info, well then the NFL could probably teach the CIA or the men in black a thing on two
the whole question came about because it seemed at the time that there weren't alot of trades happening. looking back at it, there were many trades, and the announcements probably went a little unnoticed because of all the back up and confusion by the broadcasters