We Must. We Must. We Must Improve Our Bust.
by Ernie Williams

This weekend is the annual NFL re-stocking program known as the NFL Draft. This, as if you don’t know this, is where all the teams get to pick new players for their team from the best that the college ranks have to offer.

For weeks and months leading up to the NFL Draft, writers pundits and plain old fans make guesses, set up mock drafts and try to predict just who the heck is going to get chosen, when they’re going to get chosen and what team is going to do the choosing.

The way the draft works is very simple. The teams that finished with the worst record pick first, the teams that finished with the best record pick last.

Here is this years draft order:
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Oakland 

Detroit 

Cleveland 

Tampa Bay 

Arizona 

Washington 

Minnesota 

Atlanta (from Houston) 

Miami 

Houston (from Atlanta) 

San Francisco 

Buffalo 

St. Louis 

Carolina 

Pittsburgh 

Green Bay 

Jacksonville 

Cincinnati 

Tennessee 

N.Y. Giants 

Denver 

Dallas 

Kansas City 

New England (from Seattle) 

N.Y. Jets 

Philadelphia 

New Orleans 

New England 

Baltimore 

San Diego 

Chicago 

Indianapolis 

 


This is the order that teams start out with, but once the draft gets going, anything can happen. Teams trade their picks and sometimes even players themselves in order to move up down and all around on the draft board. Some teams will trade draft picks this year to stockpile them for
future years.

While many football fans spend all kinds of time and energy analyzing the draft and trying to predict what is going to happen, I am not one of those fans.

I don’t even try to make a guess about what’s going to happen on draft day because more times than not, those guesses are wrong. So called ‘football experts’ try to tell you this team needs this player or this team will pick a player for such and such a position. It’s all bullshit. Nobody knows what these teams are going to do except the people on the teams themselves and often times a spur of the moment phone call from some other team saying, ‘let me make you an offer you can’t refuse,’ can throw the best draft laid plans right out the window.

I prefer to just sit back watch it happen and wait to see where the chips will fall. When it’s all over, I go and find out who my team has picked over the course of the two-day event. Usually they are players that I have never even heard of, since I don’t really follow College Football and
am only am vaguely aware of some of the big name players who are coming out for the draft.

The draft is an exciting time for Football starved fans. Even though there’s no games involved, it’s at least football related. For the fans of teams that had a bad year, it’s a time of optimism and hope, that with a high draft pick, their team is on the way to a better future. For
the teams that were in the middle of the pack, maybe a good draft provides them with the players that are going to let them make the next step and get back to the playoffs. For teams that are already at the top of the pile, they are aiming to stay there and replenish their team with some young blood that will enable them to remain a playoff contender.

If you’ve got any thoughts or ideas on who’s going to do what during the draft this year, I’d love to hear them, because I sure as hell don’t know what’s going to happen!

Comments

I've had the same draft prediction every year since around 1973 and I've only been wrong 3 or 4 times, the Giant's first round draft pick will be selling cars within 3 years.
If they're not selling cars in 3 years, they should be (see Brown, Dave).
In the 30+ years I've been following the New York freaking Football Giants, they've had maybe 3 or 4 good first round draft picks in all that time. Taylor, Simms, Hampton and Ike Hilliard for those playing at home. And even Ike was just pretty good, not great.
The rest? Dave freaking Brown, Tyrone "I'm taking this play off" Wheatley and everybody's favorite, Dave freaking Brown.
Did I mention that Dave Brown was a first rounder? They gave up a first round in the regular draft for him in some "supplemental" draft.

And if you're going to mention Shockey, tell me what he's done except get commercial deals and drop the big passes.

Sorry, I'm still angry at the Islanders so I'm taking out on the Giants. Mostly because every single year I end up yelling at the TV, "You drafted who?"
Of course, the first time I yelled that seriously was when they drafter Simms.

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