2020 NFL Draft/Offseason thread

[FearlessF]

8pm central?  Eastern?

you'd think by checking ESPN.com it would be there at the top of the page

nope

[betarhoalphadelta]

8pm central?  Eastern?

you'd think by checking ESPN.com it would be there at the top of the page

nope

Generally Eastern Time folks think they're at the center of the universe, so they rarely clarify. 

That said, I've found that ESPN in particular is able to detect my location and it always quotes me times in PT. So depending on whether ESPN can tell you're in CT, it might actually show you 7PM.

[CWSooner]

Generally Eastern Time folks think they're at the center of the universe, so they rarely clarify.

That said, I've found that ESPN in particular is able to detect my location and it always quotes me times in PT. So depending on whether ESPN can tell you're in CT, it might actually show you 7PM.

I try to avoid the Evil Empire, so I use CBS Sports during football season.  It adjusts its schedule to show games in Central Time. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

Still annoyed this thing doesn't start until 8 pm.  It should start at 8 am and each pick should get half an hour. 

With a lot of these GMs and HCs being 60+ years old and relying on new-to-them technology for the draft, each pick may take that long, lol.

[FearlessF]

yup, ESPN.com usually adjusts to my central time, but it's not showing any start time a tall.

Just want to know if I need to be in my chair at 7pm or 8pm

not going to the golf course this afternoon

[MrNubbz]

Still annoyed this thing doesn't start until 8 pm. 

Normally I'd agree but since I'm busy to at least 7:30 this works

[Mdot21]

Percy Harvin is now trying to make an NFL comeback. Harvin retired after the 2016 season, so he’s been out of the game for 3 years now. He’ll be 32 by the start of the 2020 season. Not sure he’ll have very many takers, but I think for a team that could use a slot WR & punt returner on a 1 year vet minimum contract it’s worth the risk. If he sucks now or if he’s a problem child just cut him and it costs you next to nothing. 

I think he ran a 4.4 at the NFL combine- but I saw him live and in person at the national title game vs Oklahoma in Miami back in 2009- and to this day I think he is the fastest player I’ve ever seen in person on a football field. 4.4 is flying- don’t get me wrong- but there’s track speed and there’s football speed- and I’ve never seen anyone in person move faster on a football field. He was just insane. The only guy I think I’ve seen in person that might’ve been as fast is Ted Ginn. Those were the two straight up most impressive dudes I’ve ever seen. I still to this day haven’t seen anything like those two. 

Harvin definitely worth taking a flier imo.

[FearlessF]

Percy Harvin was certainly "special" in his early years with the Vikings

I'd work him out and give him a chance

I'd guess there are plenty of kids in the draft that can run with the old man today

[Mdot21]

Percy Harvin was certainly "special" in his early years with the Vikings

I'd work him out and give him a chance

I'd guess there are plenty of kids in the draft that can run with the old man today

Yeah it’s an incredibly deep year for WR’s this draft. Which means less teams will probably be interested in Harvin than in a year where the draft for WRs was terrible. 

[Cincydawg]

Mecole Hardman is a player of this ilk who has done pretty well at KC.  He ran a combine 4.33.

[CWSooner]

Kyler Murray in the Player's Tribune, an open letter to the NFL draftees of 2020.

[bayareabadger]

Generally Eastern Time folks think they're at the center of the universe, so they rarely clarify.

That said, I've found that ESPN in particular is able to detect my location and it always quotes me times in PT. So depending on whether ESPN can tell you're in CT, it might actually show you 7PM.

I got so used to adjusting for eastern, it always throws me when I change time zones, especially when I'm home for a trip but check a time for a game when I'll be back. 

Having lives in EST, CST and PST, I founds CST optimal for sports watching when I was in college, as I was more a late-night person. PST seems like the ideal in adulthood, when most everything is done by 10. I suppose it would be harder if you cared about morning news, since you're a little late to that game. EST is mostly crappy unless you cherish a long morning before certain sports. 

[Mdot21]

Mecole Hardman is a player of this ilk who has done pretty well at KC.  He ran a combine 4.33.

What's crazy is he's not even the fastest guy on his own offense.

[Mdot21]

rumors are starting to circulate that Lions are staying put at #3 and taking DT Derrick Brown or CB Jeff Okudah. Color me unimpressed.

Like both players, don’t think either are best available at #3- TUA- and don’t think either are really worthy of a draft pick that high. Trade down, acquire picks and get one of them later.

Derrick Brown to me doesn’t have the athleticism to become the best, most dominant D tackle in football. He’s not Aaron Donald or Warren Sapp or Ndamokah Suh. If you’re picking a tackle that high- I think that should be your aim. If there’s not a guy you feel that strongly about then trade down.

And I like Okudah a lot, but I’m not in love with Okudah. If you’re taking a CB in the top 3 he better be Champ Bailey, Charles Woodson, even Jalen Ramsey. I do not see that out of Okudah. I’m sorry. I just don’t.