The lunch pail guy was Jim Burt. Running game by Lombardi, Shula Parcells Bellichek Noll to name a few and they won quite a few Super Bowls. Also tom Landry and many others.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
This is probably because during one game where Mahomes was playing, a group of us were having a discussion about him. And someone, who (one of the Jets fans who trigger my ire), blurts out “he has such pocket awareness”. He probably picked up the term from an ESPN talking head.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
- Hawg Mawllies
- Rome wasn't built in a day, dahlin.
- Jonathan Stewart is in his 10th year and he’s hardly lost anything.
- You can win while you build a roster. We do have a plan, and this is a part of it.
- We are committed to being forward thinking. We are committed to being the best in every area. We are making a determined effort to move that way. We are in the process of that process.
- Don't sleep on Pio.
- You've been married a long time, did you wait for your wife to come to you?
- The devaluation of the running back is a myth.
- My plan is to come in here every day and kick ass. I’m gonna keep doing it until they either take my key card or the Lord calls me home.
- It’s really apparent that we have more confidence in our offensive line than you guys do.
- We didn’t get stupid overnight.
Heavy handed, complimentary football, Protect the duke, anything out of Cris Collinsworths mouth, I've turned the page on that.....
I kinda like Matriculate the football, but thats me.
As it relates to the Giants, I also can't stand when people call Mike Kafka "Mike COFF-ka". He calls himself KAF-ka, why is it so hard to say it properly? Nobody calls Brian Daboll "Brian Da-Ball"...
didn't "elevate" the team. I find this one way overused and a lot of the time does not factor all the variables around a QB that played out on game day.
Can’t even count how many times the trolls on TV talk about some guy having the “IT”. It changes week to week, lol. I believe Barnwell did a piece on…the “IT” factor.
Yes, it ruined the back end of Eli's career. Good to see you again Googs. Hit those 30 carries with a high YPC and good things happen.....more times than not.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
If no one ever invented the phrase draft capital would you be at a loss to understand that draft picks had more value the higher they were?
Replace the phrase in any sentence that uses draft capital with draft picks and tell me you don't understand the sentiment.
I get what the phrase intends to convey, but it’s thrown out there as if making a cut while running a route is a mystical ability only a rare few possess, whereas the rest of the team can only run in a straight line
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
If no one ever invented the phrase draft capital would you be at a loss to understand that draft picks had more value the higher they were?
Replace the phrase in any sentence that uses draft capital with draft picks and tell me you don't understand the sentiment.
Sure, but I find capital more descriptive because it describes bundled value as opposed to a single pick. If someone uses the term to refer to a single pick, I’m with you. If it refers to the collective value of a team’s draft picks, I find the term appropriate.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
If no one ever invented the phrase draft capital would you be at a loss to understand that draft picks had more value the higher they were?
Replace the phrase in any sentence that uses draft capital with draft picks and tell me you don't understand the sentiment.
Sure, but I find capital more descriptive because it describes bundled value as opposed to a single pick. If someone uses the term to refer to a single pick, I’m with you. If it refers to the collective value of a team’s draft picks, I find the term appropriate.
Please provide an example. Here is mine.
"I don't think the Giants have the draft capital to pull that trade off"
"I don't think the Giants have the draft picks to pull that trade off"
You don't think those two things say the same exact thing?
Is there an example you can use where draft capital conveys a sentiment that by merely substituting draft picks would mean the same thing or without using "capital" leaves the reader confused or unclear?
the phrase was created in the past decade, but somehow the football world was able to communicate about draft picks in general and related to trades without the phrase and no one seemed confused to me.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
Exactly. But it's been stuck in PJ's craw for years.
Everyone has that one thing that just annoys them. Draft capital is that thing for PJ.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
If no one ever invented the phrase draft capital would you be at a loss to understand that draft picks had more value the higher they were?
Replace the phrase in any sentence that uses draft capital with draft picks and tell me you don't understand the sentiment.
Sure, but I find capital more descriptive because it describes bundled value as opposed to a single pick. If someone uses the term to refer to a single pick, I’m with you. If it refers to the collective value of a team’s draft picks, I find the term appropriate.
Please provide an example. Here is mine.
"I don't think the Giants have the draft capital to pull that trade off"
"I don't think the Giants have the draft picks to pull that trade off"
You don't think those two things say the same exact thing?
Is there an example you can use where draft capital conveys a sentiment that by merely substituting draft picks would mean the same thing or without using "capital" leaves the reader confused or unclear?
the phrase was created in the past decade, but somehow the football world was able to communicate about draft picks in general and related to trades without the phrase and no one seemed confused to me.
Nothing wrong with using draft capital in commentary. As noted above, I also think of it being used when describing marketable or exchangeable value as in trading those picks for players or picks for future picks, etc.
Draft picks, in and of itself, suggest a more static approach of just utilizing the asset.
I don't like it when people say a team came out flat...
The whole team? Maybe they were just outplayed. Maybe it was just one guy who came out flat (whatever that means, I assume it's just another way to say lacking effort).
Announcers saying “the football” over and over instead of “the ball”
At some point, am I interception returned for a touchdown became a “pick six”. I bothers me to a degree that is probable irrational, but it just feels like a lazy, silly phrase.
i remember the first time Madden said it on a broadcast with Summerall, he clearly meant to say "on track", but for the next 25 years we have to hear announcers saying "untracked".
it's even been added to dictionary.com as an informal definition to mean a team has improved their performance after a slow start.
it's purely sports definition is in the Urban Dictionary as "annoying and meaningless" sports term.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
The "room" is my least favorite. Absolutely one of those "this is how sports media talks now" things that is just deeply annoying.
When people refer to players as a JAG. I get tht this was an old Bill term, but there is a team called the Jags, and has been for 30 years now. Surely there is a less confusing term you could use.
When people refer to players as a JAG. I get tht this was an old Bill term, but there is a team called the Jags, and has been for 30 years now. Surely there is a less confusing term you could use.
For most of those 30 years, the Jags have primarily been JAGs.
i remember the first time Madden said it on a broadcast with Summerall, he clearly meant to say "on track", but for the next 25 years we have to hear announcers saying "untracked".
it's even been added to dictionary.com as an informal definition to mean a team has improved their performance after a slow start.
it's purely sports definition is in the Urban Dictionary as "annoying and meaningless" sports term.
"Untracked" was a horse-racing term meant to describe a horse getting out of the mud or a rut in the track and then speeding up after getting "untracked."
Its use predates the origin of football, the invention of television, and the birth of John Madden.
If you decide to trust Urban Dictionary as a source, you get what you get.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
Draft Capital is not draft picks...
Draft capital is more like sum up the value on the draft value chart for each of your picks. The resulting number is your "Draft Capital". It represents what you can trade and get in return. And that is how it it used. It is a term that is relative to what can be gotten with it.
If you just use them, they are draft picks. If you are looking to trade, you have draft capital. The terms are different. You're not going to get a top 3 pick trading 3 7th round picks, but you might trading 3 1st round picks. 3 1st round picks represents a lot more draft capital in a trade than does 3 7th round picks.
RE: its funny because they use these dumbed down phrases
and some in the media are starting to parrot to sound smart is “put a player in conflict”
Lot of good points on this thread but Im gonna disagree here. This one has some utility imo. It can help with assignments play to play or it can provide context to your overall philosophy or approach.
even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
Draft Capital is not draft picks...
Draft capital is more like sum up the value on the draft value chart for each of your picks. The resulting number is your "Draft Capital". It represents what you can trade and get in return. And that is how it it used. It is a term that is relative to what can be gotten with it.
If you just use them, they are draft picks. If you are looking to trade, you have draft capital. The terms are different. You're not going to get a top 3 pick trading 3 7th round picks, but you might trading 3 1st round picks. 3 1st round picks represents a lot more draft capital in a trade than does 3 7th round picks.
your explanation is ridiculous and non-sensical.
but ignoring that, so before 2015 before some talking head starting using the phrase you couldn't trade draft picks? because you couldn't figure out the value of them simply because the phrase draft capital had not yet been coined?
again, provide me a sentence where you use draft capital and then replace draft capital with draft picks and tell me the meaning is lost on anyone reading it.
you can't.
"Draft capital" I remember first being used by Jimmy Johnson
and probably goes back further to someone like Gil Brandt. I've got no problem with that term
So, again, give me an example where you use draft capital in a sentence, and you cannot simply replace the phrase with draft picks and have every single person reading the sentence still completely understand the intent.
if you cannot do that, how is draft capital necessary?
and probably goes back further to someone like Gil Brandt. I've got no problem with that term
So, again, give me an example where you use draft capital in a sentence, and you cannot simply replace the phrase with draft picks and have every single person reading the sentence still completely understand the intent.
if you cannot do that, how is draft capital necessary?
There are many examples in the English language where this reductionist thinking applies, but it doesn’t ever mean that we should eliminate the clearest conveyance of the message in favor of a more vague option that is capable of carrying the same message entirely on the basis of colloquialism.
You can replace “net worth” with “money” and everyone will still understand what you’re saying, but no one is clamoring to remove “net worth” from our financial parlance.
The draft is nothing more than a series of sequential rights of first refusal. The term “draft picks” describes how frequently a team has the opportunity to exercise one of those opportunities, whereas the term “draft capital” includes the implied value of the place where those opportunities reside within the entirety of the cascading sequence.
Yes, “draft picks” can be used in that scenario, but relies entirely upon context clues to inform the reader/listener that you aren’t actually referring to the quantity of picks. “Draft capital” bakes the context into the phrase itself, and is therefore actually more simple and elegant in that regard.
and probably goes back further to someone like Gil Brandt. I've got no problem with that term
So, again, give me an example where you use draft capital in a sentence, and you cannot simply replace the phrase with draft picks and have every single person reading the sentence still completely understand the intent.
if you cannot do that, how is draft capital necessary?
There are many examples in the English language where this reductionist thinking applies, but it doesn’t ever mean that we should eliminate the clearest conveyance of the message in favor of a more vague option that is capable of carrying the same message entirely on the basis of colloquialism.
You can replace “net worth” with “money” and everyone will still understand what you’re saying, but no one is clamoring to remove “net worth” from our financial parlance.
The draft is nothing more than a series of sequential rights of first refusal. The term “draft picks” describes how frequently a team has the opportunity to exercise one of those opportunities, whereas the term “draft capital” includes the implied value of the place where those opportunities reside within the entirety of the cascading sequence.
Yes, “draft picks” can be used in that scenario, but relies entirely upon context clues to inform the reader/listener that you aren’t actually referring to the quantity of picks. “Draft capital” bakes the context into the phrase itself, and is therefore actually more simple and elegant in that regard.
and probably goes back further to someone like Gil Brandt. I've got no problem with that term
So, again, give me an example where you use draft capital in a sentence, and you cannot simply replace the phrase with draft picks and have every single person reading the sentence still completely understand the intent.
if you cannot do that, how is draft capital necessary?
There are many examples in the English language where this reductionist thinking applies, but it doesn’t ever mean that we should eliminate the clearest conveyance of the message in favor of a more vague option that is capable of carrying the same message entirely on the basis of colloquialism.
You can replace “net worth” with “money” and everyone will still understand what you’re saying, but no one is clamoring to remove “net worth” from our financial parlance.
The draft is nothing more than a series of sequential rights of first refusal. The term “draft picks” describes how frequently a team has the opportunity to exercise one of those opportunities, whereas the term “draft capital” includes the implied value of the place where those opportunities reside within the entirety of the cascading sequence.
Yes, “draft picks” can be used in that scenario, but relies entirely upon context clues to inform the reader/listener that you aren’t actually referring to the quantity of picks. “Draft capital” bakes the context into the phrase itself, and is therefore actually more simple and elegant in that regard.
lol, ok
That's about as close to a concession as anyone could possibly expect from you on this topic, so I'll gladly take it.
Don't leave your feet.
There's a ton but I'm drawing a blank now.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
ooh good one
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
That's another great one.
“Deep Threat” is another term that annoys me.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
that one bothers me
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No one said these dumb terms even 5 years ago
Most of them shouldn't give up on visiting the eye doctor
- Rome wasn't built in a day, dahlin.
- Jonathan Stewart is in his 10th year and he’s hardly lost anything.
- You can win while you build a roster. We do have a plan, and this is a part of it.
- We are committed to being forward thinking. We are committed to being the best in every area. We are making a determined effort to move that way. We are in the process of that process.
- Don't sleep on Pio.
- You've been married a long time, did you wait for your wife to come to you?
- The devaluation of the running back is a myth.
- My plan is to come in here every day and kick ass. I’m gonna keep doing it until they either take my key card or the Lord calls me home.
- It’s really apparent that we have more confidence in our offensive line than you guys do.
- We didn’t get stupid overnight.
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No one said these dumb terms even 5 years ago
a) Yes they did.
b) The oldest members of Gen Z are in their mid 20s. Schneier is 10 years older than that.
I kinda like Matriculate the football, but thats me.
"possession receiver"
As it relates to the Giants, I also can't stand when people call Mike Kafka "Mike COFF-ka". He calls himself KAF-ka, why is it so hard to say it properly? Nobody calls Brian Daboll "Brian Da-Ball"...
Not a chance. This is a classic.
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the ball down the field
Not a chance. This is a classic.
Agreed. That’s a Hank Stram CLASSIC
My second favorite is "Matriculate down the field" that you mentioned above...I think Hank Stram is credited with that one, but I could be wrong.
Love these.
Yes, it ruined the back end of Eli's career. Good to see you again Googs. Hit those 30 carries with a high YPC and good things happen.....more times than not.
https://grantland.com/features/it-factor-nfl-quarterback-intangibles/
IT factor - ( New Window )
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
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even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
If no one ever invented the phrase draft capital would you be at a loss to understand that draft picks had more value the higher they were?
Replace the phrase in any sentence that uses draft capital with draft picks and tell me you don't understand the sentiment.
Yes, yes it does.
"He left his feet to make the grab" (Really? where di he leave them?)
"He high-pointed the ball" (always said after the ball drops out of the sky 25 feet into the receiver's hands)
"At the point of attack" (used to be called the "line of scrimmage")
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even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
If no one ever invented the phrase draft capital would you be at a loss to understand that draft picks had more value the higher they were?
Replace the phrase in any sentence that uses draft capital with draft picks and tell me you don't understand the sentiment.
Sure, but I find capital more descriptive because it describes bundled value as opposed to a single pick. If someone uses the term to refer to a single pick, I’m with you. If it refers to the collective value of a team’s draft picks, I find the term appropriate.
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even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
If no one ever invented the phrase draft capital would you be at a loss to understand that draft picks had more value the higher they were?
Replace the phrase in any sentence that uses draft capital with draft picks and tell me you don't understand the sentiment.
Sure, but I find capital more descriptive because it describes bundled value as opposed to a single pick. If someone uses the term to refer to a single pick, I’m with you. If it refers to the collective value of a team’s draft picks, I find the term appropriate.
Please provide an example. Here is mine.
"I don't think the Giants have the draft capital to pull that trade off"
"I don't think the Giants have the draft picks to pull that trade off"
You don't think those two things say the same exact thing?
Is there an example you can use where draft capital conveys a sentiment that by merely substituting draft picks would mean the same thing or without using "capital" leaves the reader confused or unclear?
the phrase was created in the past decade, but somehow the football world was able to communicate about draft picks in general and related to trades without the phrase and no one seemed confused to me.
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even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
Exactly. But it's been stuck in PJ's craw for years.
Everyone has that one thing that just annoys them. Draft capital is that thing for PJ.
In these hyper-sensitive times, I think the safest play is Leader of People... ;)
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No one said these dumb terms even 5 years ago
‘Off platform’ not so much. Your never hear about someone being good ‘on platform’ for good reason.
‘Slot angle’ is also really bad. Just say ‘arm angle’ and be done with it.
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even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
I actually think “draft capital” is a descriptive and concise term. It combines the number of picks with the relative value of each pick (as in trade value chart).
If no one ever invented the phrase draft capital would you be at a loss to understand that draft picks had more value the higher they were?
Replace the phrase in any sentence that uses draft capital with draft picks and tell me you don't understand the sentiment.
Sure, but I find capital more descriptive because it describes bundled value as opposed to a single pick. If someone uses the term to refer to a single pick, I’m with you. If it refers to the collective value of a team’s draft picks, I find the term appropriate.
Please provide an example. Here is mine.
"I don't think the Giants have the draft capital to pull that trade off"
"I don't think the Giants have the draft picks to pull that trade off"
You don't think those two things say the same exact thing?
Is there an example you can use where draft capital conveys a sentiment that by merely substituting draft picks would mean the same thing or without using "capital" leaves the reader confused or unclear?
the phrase was created in the past decade, but somehow the football world was able to communicate about draft picks in general and related to trades without the phrase and no one seemed confused to me.
Nothing wrong with using draft capital in commentary. As noted above, I also think of it being used when describing marketable or exchangeable value as in trading those picks for players or picks for future picks, etc.
Draft picks, in and of itself, suggest a more static approach of just utilizing the asset.
Hearing anything whisperer makes my blood boil.
Blue goose
Burp the baby
I co-sign on the stupidity of draft capital. 2 extra syllables for the sake of pretentiousness
“Hole shot” makes me giggle
Blue goose
Burp the baby
I co-sign on the stupidity of draft capital. 2 extra syllables for the sake of pretentiousness
I’m
“Hole shot” makes me giggle
I think of George Carlin when I hear that. “Extra word: Guy. Veteran is enough. He’s a veteran. We KNOW he’s a guy.”
it's even been added to dictionary.com as an informal definition to mean a team has improved their performance after a slow start.
it's purely sports definition is in the Urban Dictionary as "annoying and meaningless" sports term.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
The "room" is my least favorite. Absolutely one of those "this is how sports media talks now" things that is just deeply annoying.
For most of those 30 years, the Jags have primarily been JAGs.
it's even been added to dictionary.com as an informal definition to mean a team has improved their performance after a slow start.
it's purely sports definition is in the Urban Dictionary as "annoying and meaningless" sports term.
"Untracked" was a horse-racing term meant to describe a horse getting out of the mud or a rut in the track and then speeding up after getting "untracked."
Its use predates the origin of football, the invention of television, and the birth of John Madden.
If you decide to trust Urban Dictionary as a source, you get what you get.
They said "you didn't add content to your order."
What the heck is wrong with "regular" or "cream and sugar"
Also - when going somewhere or doing something like "we're going to do Italy". Like WTF is it a ride a great adventure or something.
To be honest I have no problem with some of the football terms.
WR Room or QB room is usually used as reference to a player like a back-up QB who often while not a good player is more of a coach.
So arm talent evolved from "has a good arm" ? I do not remember ...
HAHA!!! I was just going to post the same!
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
Draft Capital is not draft picks...
Draft capital is more like sum up the value on the draft value chart for each of your picks. The resulting number is your "Draft Capital". It represents what you can trade and get in return. And that is how it it used. It is a term that is relative to what can be gotten with it.
If you just use them, they are draft picks. If you are looking to trade, you have draft capital. The terms are different. You're not going to get a top 3 pick trading 3 7th round picks, but you might trading 3 1st round picks. 3 1st round picks represents a lot more draft capital in a trade than does 3 7th round picks.
So if they stopped, you'd be lost?
Lot of good points on this thread but Im gonna disagree here. This one has some utility imo. It can help with assignments play to play or it can provide context to your overall philosophy or approach.
"off-platform throws"--the better term is off-balance throws
"off-schedule throws"--the better term is improvisation
"dirty pocket"--the better term is throwing under pressure
"plus measurables"--the better term is physically talented
Can you imagine John Madden saying any of the terms I put in quotation marks?
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even if you acknowledge higher draft picks have more value (which is a concept everyone with a brain already understands and knows), it is simply used unnecessarily now interchangeably with draft picks. there is no other form of capital there is nothing except draft picks.
"the n room" the QB room the WR room, etc.
one person says it now all the parrots say it.
Draft Capital is not draft picks...
Draft capital is more like sum up the value on the draft value chart for each of your picks. The resulting number is your "Draft Capital". It represents what you can trade and get in return. And that is how it it used. It is a term that is relative to what can be gotten with it.
If you just use them, they are draft picks. If you are looking to trade, you have draft capital. The terms are different. You're not going to get a top 3 pick trading 3 7th round picks, but you might trading 3 1st round picks. 3 1st round picks represents a lot more draft capital in a trade than does 3 7th round picks.
your explanation is ridiculous and non-sensical.
but ignoring that, so before 2015 before some talking head starting using the phrase you couldn't trade draft picks? because you couldn't figure out the value of them simply because the phrase draft capital had not yet been coined?
again, provide me a sentence where you use draft capital and then replace draft capital with draft picks and tell me the meaning is lost on anyone reading it.
you can't.
So, again, give me an example where you use draft capital in a sentence, and you cannot simply replace the phrase with draft picks and have every single person reading the sentence still completely understand the intent.
if you cannot do that, how is draft capital necessary?
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and probably goes back further to someone like Gil Brandt. I've got no problem with that term
So, again, give me an example where you use draft capital in a sentence, and you cannot simply replace the phrase with draft picks and have every single person reading the sentence still completely understand the intent.
if you cannot do that, how is draft capital necessary?
There are many examples in the English language where this reductionist thinking applies, but it doesn’t ever mean that we should eliminate the clearest conveyance of the message in favor of a more vague option that is capable of carrying the same message entirely on the basis of colloquialism.
You can replace “net worth” with “money” and everyone will still understand what you’re saying, but no one is clamoring to remove “net worth” from our financial parlance.
The draft is nothing more than a series of sequential rights of first refusal. The term “draft picks” describes how frequently a team has the opportunity to exercise one of those opportunities, whereas the term “draft capital” includes the implied value of the place where those opportunities reside within the entirety of the cascading sequence.
Yes, “draft picks” can be used in that scenario, but relies entirely upon context clues to inform the reader/listener that you aren’t actually referring to the quantity of picks. “Draft capital” bakes the context into the phrase itself, and is therefore actually more simple and elegant in that regard.
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In comment 16210891 dpinzow said:
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and probably goes back further to someone like Gil Brandt. I've got no problem with that term
So, again, give me an example where you use draft capital in a sentence, and you cannot simply replace the phrase with draft picks and have every single person reading the sentence still completely understand the intent.
if you cannot do that, how is draft capital necessary?
There are many examples in the English language where this reductionist thinking applies, but it doesn’t ever mean that we should eliminate the clearest conveyance of the message in favor of a more vague option that is capable of carrying the same message entirely on the basis of colloquialism.
You can replace “net worth” with “money” and everyone will still understand what you’re saying, but no one is clamoring to remove “net worth” from our financial parlance.
The draft is nothing more than a series of sequential rights of first refusal. The term “draft picks” describes how frequently a team has the opportunity to exercise one of those opportunities, whereas the term “draft capital” includes the implied value of the place where those opportunities reside within the entirety of the cascading sequence.
Yes, “draft picks” can be used in that scenario, but relies entirely upon context clues to inform the reader/listener that you aren’t actually referring to the quantity of picks. “Draft capital” bakes the context into the phrase itself, and is therefore actually more simple and elegant in that regard.
lol, ok
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In comment 16210891 dpinzow said:
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and probably goes back further to someone like Gil Brandt. I've got no problem with that term
So, again, give me an example where you use draft capital in a sentence, and you cannot simply replace the phrase with draft picks and have every single person reading the sentence still completely understand the intent.
if you cannot do that, how is draft capital necessary?
There are many examples in the English language where this reductionist thinking applies, but it doesn’t ever mean that we should eliminate the clearest conveyance of the message in favor of a more vague option that is capable of carrying the same message entirely on the basis of colloquialism.
You can replace “net worth” with “money” and everyone will still understand what you’re saying, but no one is clamoring to remove “net worth” from our financial parlance.
The draft is nothing more than a series of sequential rights of first refusal. The term “draft picks” describes how frequently a team has the opportunity to exercise one of those opportunities, whereas the term “draft capital” includes the implied value of the place where those opportunities reside within the entirety of the cascading sequence.
Yes, “draft picks” can be used in that scenario, but relies entirely upon context clues to inform the reader/listener that you aren’t actually referring to the quantity of picks. “Draft capital” bakes the context into the phrase itself, and is therefore actually more simple and elegant in that regard.
lol, ok
That's about as close to a concession as anyone could possibly expect from you on this topic, so I'll gladly take it.