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One year ago, Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield couldn’t possibly be the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. It had to be USC’s Sam Darnold. Or maybe it was Wyoming’s Josh Allen. Until, well, maybe it could be Mayfield. Welcome to April in the NFL draft, the Kafkaesque month of misinformation and propaganda that would put a communist-run newspaper to shame. A time when professional football becomes a snake of lies that wakes up every morning and eats its own tail. This is why mock drafts and months of debate go out the window in a matter of minutes in late April: most of the arguments are based on fairy tales. If we didn’t learn that last year, maybe we’ll never learn it. Coming out of last year’s Senior Bowl, the mere suggestion of Mayfield being in play for the No. 1 overall pick was ridiculed. That actually happened. I wrote Mayfield was a legitimate Browns target after the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. By the time I got to the airport, a league source had called me to say that I should be embarrassed by the column, at which point I made sure to tweet out that not everyone agreed with my assessment. |
Right around the time of the Senior Bowl,it started to get weird.Could have been the work of a few undercover Twitter Twits.
Bosa gets a lot of hype simply because his name is Bosa.
None of these mocks or published articles or entities matter. Right or wrong, it’s what the nfl thinks that matters.
None of these mocks or published articles or entities matter. Right or wrong, it’s what the nfl thinks that matters.
Yup. This is why I have trouble with the people who are assuming the draft goes exactly like the draft media is predicting. I've seen numerous people on here and social media say the top 5 of the draft is going to be Murray, Bosa, Allen, Quinnen, D. White.
Like 95% of the media is predicting that. Yet every year NFL teams have completely different views on players. Nobody thought the Browns would pass on Bradley Chubb/Quenton Nelson for a 180 pound CB.
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On Cleveland’s list last year. If memory serves it wasn’t until right before the draft that Baker was even really getting buzz and up until the day of the draft it was 50/50 with Darnold. Shows how little we all really know at this point.
Except that’s not true according to their GM. Darnold was their top guy all along until Baker blew them away in evaluation process.
Dorsey never said that.
Mike Francesa has said many times the Jets were never drafting Mayfield. Not sure what to make of it. He can be a blowhard but I think he still has some sources within the industry.