04-26-2021, 09:55 AM
(04-26-2021, 09:52 AM)Burma Wrote: This kind of leads me back to a subject that was touched on awhile ago, team draft boards. I wish there was access to the public, after the draft, to team draft boards and that player scouting service the NFl provides to the teams. That would be very interesting to me. Just to see who was really blowing smoke and the games going on behind the scenes.
Those are usually kept pretty secret because teams don't even like to share how they ranked guys for future potential FA/trade opportunities. I know the Cowboys board leaked a couple of years back and it was definitely interesting to see how they stacked things. We do get some ideas of it after the draft as often various media members will be embedded and they will be allowed to share tidbits that shed light on things.
I think, for the most part, the idea of the smokescreen is so well known that it's almost a smokescreen more so to not say anything about a player than it is to try and put out bad info. A lot of that stuff worked better in the pre-social media era and I think teams have caught on a lot better.
