Jump to content

That's No Moon

Community Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    6,958

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by That's No Moon

    A possible solution for tanking? Reinvent the draft.

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by That's No Moon

    15 hours ago, Jigsaw2112 said:

    At this point it's obvious what the Dolphins are doing, and a few other teams are definitely in yard sale mode.  

    If the league wants to prevent teams from sandbagging themselves for a high draft pick, what are they to do?  The current system rewards failure, but middling teams who could make the leap with high end talent end up stuck on the 6 to 8 win treadmill (As we Bills fans know all too well.)

    How about this for a concept:

        1. In 4 years, eliminate the draft as we know it.  This will work all the traded picks that currently exist out of the system.

        2. Install an auction style system in its place.  Every team already has a salary cap, so every team would still have a budget.  Since we basically spend 4 months ranking these guys anyway, develop a consensus computer ranking system 1-250.  Have the same show on draft weekend, starting with the #1 guy, but every team with cash to spend can bid on who they need, one player at a time, just focus on the player instead of the drafting team for 15 minutes.  

    By doing this there's no incentive to fail, you still have to spend wisely, and the fans still have hope that their team can get quality players.

    I believe the NFL could make a good show of it, and with all the cap rules currently in place a team couldn't just dump all their guys and buy half the first round.

    Any thoughts?

        

    I don't have a problem with eliminating the draft entirely and making it more like the baseball international player system. Give teams an allocation what what they are allowed to spend in total and let them decide how much they are willing to offer players. The good players will get more, most guys will get less.

     

    I don't like the look of making a straight up auction where you are quite literally buying people's labor. Give the players the choice of what offer they want to accept and move on. If you made the rules well, teams in big markets wouldn't be able to hoard the top players because they couldn't afford them all. You can't trade allocation space, you can't bank it year over year, etc. If you want to blow it all on one player that's your perogative but you can't sign any other rookies. That sort of stuff.

     

    Udfas already have a more choice in where they play than drafted players do.

    I watched the Music City Miracle game in full last night on the NFL Network for the first time in 20 years. It changed my opinion on the game.

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    I was sitting in my parents house all by myself as I had my wisdom teeth pulled the day before and the rest of my family was at a function for my sister.  I pulled the knot on one of my stitches through the gum I was screaming at the TV so much at the end of that game in my oxycodone induced haze.  I don't remember more than 3 plays from that game. Johnson running with 1 shoe on, making the field goal, and the ensuing kickoff.

    Week 5: Bills (+2.5) at Titans

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    41 minutes ago, whatdrought said:

     

    Your first take is a shot in the dark and ignorant. 

     

    Your second take is just plain stupid. 

    Can I make a list of posts that are shots in the dark?  Supposing that the team won't expose a QB in protocol to rush him back when they could give him nearly 3 calendar weeks to recover rather than 6 days is just an outlandish thing to say?  OK.

     

    The fact that I think this is a loss whether or not Allen plays is stupid only because you disagree with it. No Allen, No Singletary, on the road after an emotional loss?  Clearly, what am I thinking?  You could have asked me in August and I would have marked this week as an L.  Based on recent events I'm more convinced.

     

    This is an 8-8 football team give or take one game on either side.

    Bill Belichick does not use Analytics

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Xwnyer said:

    When your good at cheating don’t need analytics 

    I guess it depends on what you are analyzing.

     

    Are you analyzing the defensive signals you purposely recorded from the other team? Are you analyzing the other team's formations in a closed practice? Are you analyzing the specific inflation pressure your team benefits from and then figuring out how to set the balls at said (under)pressure, are you analyzing how many headset channels the NFL will actually let you use before they step in and say something, are you analyzing how to intercept the other teams headset signals, are you analyzing how to have headsets go down at critical moments in home games over a period of years, are you analyzing how to get favorable bye week matchups for 15 consecutive years, are you analyzing how to have your billionaire owner make himself out to be a victim when he got caught getting handies from sex slaves?

     

    That the media still has the audacity to refer to these people as one of the greatest franchises of all-time is a commentary on the state of morality on our planet.  Show me another HoF coach who has been flat out caught cheating and reprimanded by the league for cheating on MULTIPLE occasions.

    • Like (+1) 2
×
×
  • Create New...