The 2014 NFL Draft should have kicked off last night. The claim was that a conflict at Radio City Music Hall for this week kept the NFL from continuing with their "same time next year" draft scheduling policy. I cry horseshit! I think that moving the draft back two weeks is one the first steps in Roger "the Goods" Goodell's grand vision of a "made for prime time" offseason. Shift everything and turn everything into some fantastic pageant. The Scouting Combine in March. Free agency in April. The Draft in May. Mini-camps in June. Then training camp and finally the NFL season. All of it a pageant. All of it for showing off the shield. Even the NFL can get too big. Just ask Mark Cuban.
I find it a little depressing that we could have, should have, been in the middle of the NFL Draft right now. Waiting for an April Draft already felt like an eternity. The excitement of free agency begins to die down before we even enter this month. That leaves about three weeks to catch up with draft stuff. Two more weeks of draft talk and prep is overkill. Everyone is ready for the draft now. I'll bet that every NFL coach and general manager would rather have those two weeks after the draft than before. They'd much rather spend those two weeks working on what they do have than guessing what they might have. How many times can they check those lists? How many mocks can we make?
Maybe I'm just being selfish. Moving the draft back two weeks is just about the dumbest thing the NFL has ever done.
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