Interesting article regarding the pre draft process

[jbland]

Wow that's an awesome thought man maybe I should delete this thread now because of it

That's probably overkill but I won't object.

At least then we can make room for real nfl news. Not some fluff piece designed to drive traffic to a subpar sports site while giving no real insight and giving the reader nothing of use.

[Gabeking]

That's probably overkill but I won't object.

At least then we can make room for real nfl news. Not some fluff piece designed to drive traffic to a subpar sports site while giving no real insight and giving the reader nothing of use.

lol ok

[rayzor]

i can't believe i'm saying this, but bleacher report is slowly becoming a place with decent writers and good information. i mean you still have to remember to eat the fish and leave the bones, but it's not something that i can just easily dismiss as poo. 

 

they've done a lot to clean that place up in the past couple years and started hiring actual writers.

[rayzor]

re: the article, i remember a few years back going back and forth with someone in here who was saying that smokescreens were basically a myth and that no real professional teams would ever use or need to use misinformation to operate, esp. if they did their job right and if they did that they couldn't imagine it actually working and saw it as essentially bush league stuff. i thought it was obvious that they would do it, but went and found quite a lot of examples of teams (including the panthers) talking about how they used smokescreens, esp. for the draft and free agency. 

 

it was almost surprising how prolific it is throughout professional sports and it's one of those things that if it didn't have an effect on their ability to reach their goal, it wouldn't be utilized so much.

[jayflip]

re: the article, i remember a few years back going back and forth with someone in here who was saying that smokescreens were basically a myth and that no real professional teams would ever use or need to use misinformation to operate, esp. if they did their job right and if they did that they couldn't imagine it actually working and saw it as essentially bush league stuff. i thought it was obvious that they would do it, but went and found quite a lot of examples of teams (including the panthers) talking about how they used smokescreens, esp. for the draft and free agency.

it was almost surprising how prolific it is throughout professional sports and it's one of those things that if it didn't have an effect on their ability to reach their goal, it wouldn't be utilized so much.

The tubby bastard Lendale White comes to mind.