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  • Bought 3 Draft Mag. Did anyone else do the same?

    Sportingnews Draft Guide, Profootball Weekly, Lindy's Draft Guide.

    Profootball Weekly has the Pack drafting---Lynch
    Lindy's----Lynch--2nd M.McCauley cb
    Sportingnews-Jarrett wr----2nd Darby rb----3rd Irons cb
    other view of rd 1 Pompe! has J.Anderson DE, Dillon has Lynch, Hayes has Lynch
    Last year I bought 4 draft mags but this year could only find 3. Did anyone else buy any draft guides? or I'm the only nut here.

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    SportingNews past draft analysis
    '02 C+
    '03 D-
    '04 D
    '05 B-
    '06 A-

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    • #3
      Have those 3; now awaiting the ESPN version, which was quite good last year.
      Of the other three, Sporting News seemed the best.
      Pro Football Weekly's version seemed to have been done before the Combine (prob. to simply hit the stands first), and seems decidedly 'off' in player evaluations/rankings.
      Who Knows? The Shadow knows!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by The Shadow
        Have those 3; now awaiting the ESPN version, which was quite good last year.
        Of the other three, Sporting News seemed the best.
        Pro Football Weekly's version seemed to have been done before the Combine (prob. to simply hit the stands first), and seems decidedly 'off' in player evaluations/rankings.
        Finally a true NFL fan like me. I just knew it had to be you Shadow, because you predict to many Packers scores. I couldn't remember the other mag, ESPN wow how could I forget that.

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        • #5
          pack4to84:
          Thanks.
          I love draft time.
          I'm sitting beside my antique draft collection; I remember driving down to the Pro Football Weekly office on Peterson Street -way back when - to get what was , at that time, the only draft book available.
          Now, it seems like having 4 - to compare scout opinions - seems about right.
          Who Knows? The Shadow knows!

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          • #6
            PFW tends to have the best writers and analysis... even if it isn't the most timely. Although Buschbaum's death seemed to hurt them... Buschbaum had everyone's respect, and generally speaking, if he wrote it, it was accurate. He never blindsided anyone.

            Players move up and down boards right up until draft time - but, for my money, if they haven't done it on film, they're probably a tease.

            That's not to say you don't take the combine and workout numbers into consideration, but many a GM has gotten suckered by good workout numbers - when the whole time the guy was nothing more than a workout warrior.
            wist

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            • #7
              you know, we had to wait till after the combine for all this crap to come out. now they're out and none of them use the combine number

              i've looked at about 4 in the last few days, and they all have greg olsen at an estimated 4.74 40 time

              they still have estimates for all these guys, no real numbers

              so i'm a little put off by all of them, they seem to be using old info

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              • #8
                Now that I'm officially on Spring Break - I shall begin my annual Draft Guide purchasing extravaganza.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by red
                  you know, we had to wait till after the combine for all this crap to come out. now they're out and none of them use the combine number

                  i've looked at about 4 in the last few days, and they all have greg olsen at an estimated 4.74 40 time

                  they still have estimates for all these guys, no real numbers

                  so i'm a little put off by all of them, they seem to be using old info
                  I was shocked when I saw they had Olson 40 at 4.74 or 4.65 and 2 mags had him 2nd best TE

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                  • #10
                    FYI - If you get profootball weekly's draft guide you also get a online version of the predraft issue (April) and the post draft analysis issue (May) for free.
                    "When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time" Max McGee

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                    • #11
                      Last year, A.J. Hawk was -for me, at least - the absolute no-brainer player I was praying for the Packers to take.
                      This year, I am a windsock. Everytime I wade thru the draft mags, I come away thinking about another player.
                      Who Knows? The Shadow knows!

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by The Shadow
                        Last year, A.J. Hawk was -for me, at least - the absolute no-brainer player I was praying for the Packers to take.
                        This year, I am a windsock. Everytime I wade thru the draft mags, I come away thinking about another player.
                        As you should be. The further away from the top of the draft board you get, the closer the differences between players.

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                        • #13
                          This year, even at the top, I would be hardpressed to identify a player - besides Johnson - who I really like.
                          Who Knows? The Shadow knows!

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                          • #14
                            I don't buy all of the sports magazines but look at different draft sites on the internet. Many sites could be clones of each other. Do they have their own analysis people or do they copy and paste from a few chosen sites. If it is copy and paste method, then maybe I could start my own site.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by BooHoo
                              I don't buy all of the sports magazines but look at different draft sites on the internet. Many sites could be clones of each other. Do they have their own analysis people or do they copy and paste from a few chosen sites. If it is copy and paste method, then maybe I could start my own site.
                              i would guess that 99% of those site have never watched more then 15 or 20 of those players ever play a game. so they have nothing to base their opinions on except other sites they find on the web

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