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Multitude of forces corrupt draft scouting process - NFL - Yahoo! Sports
[Like Mueller, I find it hard to fathom that media hype or scrutiny would have any impact on what player a team chooses, with so much at stake competitively and financially. But some of those on the inside swear it’s so. “You wouldn’t believe how much the media’s involved in this stuff,” the scouting director says. “You know how many times in draft rooms the top personnel guy or head coach will say something like, ‘Well, so-and-so is supposed to be the top-rated guy’? They’ll say, ‘How can we take this other guy? We’ll get crushed in the media.’ People are giving grades the day after the draft, and the best way to get an ‘A’ is to go with the guys who the experts are projecting as the top picks.”]
[Like Mueller, I find it hard to fathom that media hype or scrutiny would have any impact on what player a team chooses, with so much at stake competitively and financially. But some of those on the inside swear it’s so. “You wouldn’t believe how much the media’s involved in this stuff,” the scouting director says. “You know how many times in draft rooms the top personnel guy or head coach will say something like, ‘Well, so-and-so is supposed to be the top-rated guy’? They’ll say, ‘How can we take this other guy? We’ll get crushed in the media.’ People are giving grades the day after the draft, and the best way to get an ‘A’ is to go with the guys who the experts are projecting as the top picks.”]