NFL Draft punditry

I have an NFL draft addiction. Cold turkey doesn't work, counseling doesn't help, and it only gets worse every year. And like all good addictions, it has serious consequences. Sure it hurts your social life and makes you seem a little obsessive, but far and away the worst consequence is having to listen to the pundits yak endlessly. To lead off with my biggest problem with the idiot squad, they contradict themselves constantly. For the months of lead-up to the draft, they laud teams who parrot the following phrase "we're going to take the best player available, regardless of position." But once it starts to look like teams are going to draft to fill holes, they start talking about how important it is to pick players for need. When a team steps up and picks for need. They praise them. A few months from now, they will criticize them for reaching and picking sub-par players too high. Does this make any sense? How do these people have jobs? Oh... that's right because addicts like me watch the draft.

In fact ESPN Page 2 recently had a great breakdown of number 1 picks and their bust rates. Just goes to show that you can't judge a team solely by their top pick. Later on, the pundits will return to talking about how you should ALWAYS pick the best player available. Now though, they're drumming up more business by talking about how important it is to nail your first round picks. Apparently, the other rounds no longer matter as the first round hype-fest blows through.

Draft notes so far: Levi Brown rules. Cardinals got a good one with that pick. I remember I had class with him one year so I'm excited about getting picked this high. It's cool to be able to say I had class with a top 5 pick. Also, watching LaRon Landry's agent shoot for an awkward hug with LaRon was high unintentional comedy. I think someone should make a montage of bad agent-player hugs and put it up on YouTube. That would be great.