Mock Drafts are dumb

discussions about these mocks are invaluable to me since I don’t watch college football. It helps me learn as much as possible about prospective draftees.

Don't look at them.

But it gives us an idea who might be available/when

They’re done mostly for entertainment value correct?

this board wanted Rosen a couple of years ago and Haskins last year. This board generally doesn't get it right but it is fun.

I'm waiting.

entered mine, they might be dumb to some but I have gotten a few right over the years so based on that concept it's fun if you put some time and effort into the exercise. : )

fantasy. and we don’t have the choice to avoid that.

To become more familiar with. So lfor me a point of reference to help me educate myself about potential players. So I know who I like and who I don’t. So then I wait to see who we pick.

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about 10 years ago. Nothing close to that now.
There wasn’t one (or a few) bad drafts that turned me away, it’s just that now I see that no matter what I research and hope will happen, it’ll always be out of my control. I still care and hope they find the right players ... but spend a lot less of my time thinking about it.

any day over this crap.

It's that time of year on a football site when everyone happens to be isolated. I like reading well thought out mock drafts at this time of year. It lets me know that things are still somewhat normal; same as every year we get a thread like this.
Lots of things that are just for fun are dumb, at least mock drafts are harmless.

And the only recent thread active on is this one - where you post about a topic you don't enjoy, but haven't posted anywhere else.

Here's an idea: skip the threads you don't like. You'll probably figure it out by your 5th or 6th year here.

is when some guy on his couch starts ranting because the Giants drafted some guy in the fourth round and he's crying, "How could they do that? I had him rated as a 7th rounder!" Like Mr. Unemployed knows better than a bunch of lifetime scouts, coaches and general managers.

informative about players we rarely get to see.

but not as dumb as grading the draft picks the next day, mostly based on how closely they matched the writer's dumb mock.

But all these lists and mocks end up doing is helping to build the anger in people when players go earlier than excepted. It doesn’t matter what these people say even if they are qualified to judge collegiate talent. It also doesn’t matter if only one team loves a player. That means he’s getting drafted high and should have been drafted high.

Not to mention the countless instances where a so called reach ends up a steal or the steal ends up a bust.

In comment 14860168 Gman11 said:

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is when some guy on his couch starts ranting because the Giants drafted some guy in the fourth round and he's crying, "How could they do that? I had him rated as a 7th rounder!" Like Mr. Unemployed knows better than a bunch of lifetime scouts, coaches and general managers.

It is kinda fun on those few occasions when you look back over those past drafts and find out that maybe those scouts, coaches, GM's maybe should have thought about adding Mr Unemployed to their staff:)....things might have gone better.

Will teach you more about the players and draft process than anything else

It’s fun exercise and informative if you do it right, which takes a time commitment