Draft illusion and reality

[bengals1969]

(02-11-2020, 09:29 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: https://www.bengals.com/news/draft-season-illusion-and-reality-at-the-top

"Usually you can find agents' fingerprints all over these things. Both agents who represent a particular player or agents who are trying to denigrate a particular player so they can boost their guy's stock. And of course the agents always have fellow travelers in the media."

Reading this made me feel a little better.

Clicks=Money

The media has galvanized around clicky stuff and CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, ABC, NBC, etc all do it.  Come up with something, doesn't matter if it's true, but be compelling and make people click.
Draft speculation is the worst of it.  "Joe Burrow hates Cincinnati"  will get clicks.  "Joe Burrow isn't rocking the boat on draft day" won't get clicks.

Clicks=Money