Swamp Quarantine Night — The Motherfuckin’ NFL Draft (2020), Thursday, April 23, 8 PM ET
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Swamp Quarantine Night — The Motherfuckin’ NFL Draft (2020), Thursday, April 23, 8 PM ET
Oh yeah, we’re doing this!
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Woo!
And the Steelers already made their choice, so no pressure and I can just mock everyone and everything else.
And the Steelers already made their choice, so no pressure and I can just mock everyone and everything else.
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Same, only I view it as "no pick for the Bears to fuck up!"
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I can't wait for everyone to ask me if I'm OK when BoB trades Watson to draft Love.
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We need GPJ to give individual rundowns on each player as they get picked, ala Mel Kiper or Todd McShay.
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It's my birthday. Will there be cake?
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NFL brings it through the pandemic. Very impressive.
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I need to really cram to get the mock out this year - still planning on dropping it on yinz guys though.
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I'm kinda pumped the quarantine has brought me back for this.
How do you all get your death notices since I left?
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I feel like they could have made this a week long captive event and removed most potential tech glitches if they set it up where every night at 8:00, the round drafts without trading and then the next day from 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM trades were open until the draft restarts. You know this is going to turn into a huge and hilarious mess.
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Trades are generally dependent on who's still on the board though, so I don't see how that part would work. Though I agree that it's going to be a hilarious mess.
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Right, it’s not ideal, but how is this not better than Gettleman’s dial up going out with 45 seconds left on their clock?
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Are they forcing teams to do the real version of a queue or best available or are they really going to skip picks?
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Night — The Motherfuckin’ NFL Draft (2020), Thursday, April 23, 7 PM ET
I would think someone at the ol' Park Avenue office would come up with a fallback option, such as this:
1. League generates a random list of eight character strings (like F32ZX9J1), one for each draft pick plus ten extra character strings for each team, which are compiled on a separate list.
2. League distributes only each team's character strings to specific team employees (say, GM and head of legal department for Jets get the Jets' list only).
3. To make an official pick, the team's GM must call a specific land line at the league office from a predetermined phone line (with caller ID enabled and the number filed in advance with the league, either a direct land line at team headquarters, the GM's cell phone, or whatever). GM must provide the character string to confirm legitimacy, then the pick.
4. In the event of a trade, the GM must provide the character string for the highest pick being sent out, plus all terms of trade (picks for current and future years, plus any current players). Other GM provides reciprocates with that team's corresponding character string and terms of trade. If a team is not trading a pick in the current draft, they use one of the extra character strings prior to providing trade terms. Terms must match for trade to be official.
5. When a team acquires a pick, that pick gets assigned the receiving team's first unused character string for making the pick.
6. Pick becomes official with league office by virtue of the phone call and NFL announces the pick.
Or, fuck it, wi-fi and web conferencing for everyone.
1. League generates a random list of eight character strings (like F32ZX9J1), one for each draft pick plus ten extra character strings for each team, which are compiled on a separate list.
2. League distributes only each team's character strings to specific team employees (say, GM and head of legal department for Jets get the Jets' list only).
3. To make an official pick, the team's GM must call a specific land line at the league office from a predetermined phone line (with caller ID enabled and the number filed in advance with the league, either a direct land line at team headquarters, the GM's cell phone, or whatever). GM must provide the character string to confirm legitimacy, then the pick.
4. In the event of a trade, the GM must provide the character string for the highest pick being sent out, plus all terms of trade (picks for current and future years, plus any current players). Other GM provides reciprocates with that team's corresponding character string and terms of trade. If a team is not trading a pick in the current draft, they use one of the extra character strings prior to providing trade terms. Terms must match for trade to be official.
5. When a team acquires a pick, that pick gets assigned the receiving team's first unused character string for making the pick.
6. Pick becomes official with league office by virtue of the phone call and NFL announces the pick.
Or, fuck it, wi-fi and web conferencing for everyone.
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That is hilarious
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Is it funnier if you know I'm two degrees of separation from him and have met him once or twice (a long time ago)?
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Well, if you guys are tight, you could offer to let him park his van in front of your house and use your wifi!
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He could walk by me on the street wearing a DAVE t-shirt and I wouldn’t know him.
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Hey, are we all just going to watch and post, or is somebody hosting a Zoom while the draft is on?
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Giff approves. Oh. WiFi. Nvm.
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Everybody who’s done an online draft not run by ESPN/Yahoo/CBS and its timer has that one idiot who can’t log in causing a 45 minute delay at the start. Well here there’s going to be 32 of them!
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It sounds like the mock draft went well enough and they're going to be forgiving with the clock if there is any hint of technical difficulties.
Did anyone read a report of what the teams actually picked in the mock? Did they just say "here"?
Did anyone read a report of what the teams actually picked in the mock? Did they just say "here"?
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Night — The Motherfuckin’ NFL Draft (2020), Thursday, April 23, 7 PM ET
The Vikings got passed over because they weren't sure whether they were here.
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They were supposed to use made up names. I assume someone went with Ben Dover.rass wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:20 am It sounds like the mock draft went well enough and they're going to be forgiving with the clock if there is any hint of technical difficulties.
Did anyone read a report of what the teams actually picked in the mock? Did they just say "here"?
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Siri, find me the most Bears tweet ever:
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Night — The Motherfuckin’ NFL Draft (2020), Thursday, April 23, 7 PM ET
Gotta tie in that Mitch Trubisky pass/social distancing sign from last week somehow.
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Gronk back. Shipped to Tampa.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Night — The Motherfuckin’ NFL Draft (2020), Thursday, April 23, 7 PM ET
Dammit, NFL! You're making it hard to look away.
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Coaches and GM types fluffing themselves over how many monitors and how pointlessly "worky" their home setups are IS the most NFL thing ever, at least.
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Re: Swamp Quarantine Night — The Motherfuckin’ NFL Draft (2020), Thursday, April 23, 7 PM ET
Indeed, to wit:
https://www.theringer.com/2020/4/21/212 ... draft-2020
Oh no! How are teams gonna bridge the Bills IT head start gap!Success in the NFL sometimes comes down to finding tiny competitive edges, and at present, those might be found in the IT department. Dan Evans, the Bills’ IT head, “saw it coming,” Beane said and started installing home technology about 10 days before it was needed. “When he did it, people were still staying, ‘We’re not going to work from home, we’ll be in the office,’” Beane said. “And I was saying ‘Well, I’m going to be in the office.’ I’ve got a great setup. Why would I not be, even if no one else was going to be? I didn’t think there’d be a state shutdown to where we couldn’t even go there if you wanted to.” By the time the Bills’ facility closed in mid-March, coaches and scouts were given one-on-one tutorials on how to use all their work-from-home technology and how to access all the film they needed. Beane started his scouting meetings three days early in case of hiccups and said things went smoothly.
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Haaaa the NFL is the dumbest thing on Earth. I'm surprised they've been able to get over themselves sufficiently to even consider holding an event as hallowed as "The Draft"(tm) in a lowly Zoom meeting.
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I bet I end up watching or atleast following along on twitter for (1) the communal sports experience and (2) the chance for chaos / porn.
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Here's What I'll Be Watching™
- Will they still have old players and celebs announce picks, even though it adds yet another set of points where things can go wrong?
- Will they have doctors and nurses announce picks so that even if everything goes wrong, we can't make fun of it?
- Sharpies or dry erase for Mel Kiper?
- Has everyone already done the draft ahead of time so things could be cleaned up for TV?
- Who will start coughing really bad?
- What percent of head coaches will have The Art of War on their shelves behind them?
- Who will absolutely nail their pick and start running around with their shirt off?
- Whose Zoom screen will have their wife's name on it?
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To announce Washington’s pick, we’re honored to welcome Air Force Chief Master Sergeant George “Steve”...
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What team will have the most 'Merica background?
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Will everyone in the Jags front office get caught in the background of each other's screens from the same cabana?
he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The
holy fuckbAllZ, what a ducking nightmare. Holy shot. Just, fuck. The
holy fuckbAllZ, what a ducking nightmare. Holy shot. Just, fuck. The
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If you guys are interested in doing this as a Zoom meeting, let me know and I can see it up on my work account.
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