1. To whoever recommended the idea of a "playoff" between the two worse teams for the number 1 pick, the NFLPA and the players would never go for that. Good luck convincing guys like Matt stafford and megatron to go out there and play hard in a 17th game so that the team has a better chance of drafting your replacement. The players don't care about what pick their team gets in the draft
2. The draft is essential for parity. You can't give college players the right to just pick where they want to go. Small market teams would literally die.
3. Draft lotteries are just dumb. Every once in a while you do have some "suck for luck" scenarios, but for the most part the teams that pick at the top are truly the worst teams and need the most help. As pats fans, we all hate Indy, but if it was some random NFC team that sucked for luck in 2011 and got top pick, would we all be as annoyed by it? I don't think so. Even if you include only non playoff teams in the lottery (NHL just started doing this in their 2015 draft), your gonna get some good teams that maybe just had a lot of bad luck in a season (like injuries for example) and they win a lottery. Like for example let's say Seattle just misses the playoffs this year by 1 game, and they win the lottery, do you really think they deserve and/or need the number 1 overall pick more than Detroit does? That would be absurd
This is sort of off topic kinda, but I have no idea why Ryan grigsons seat isn't as hot as chuck pagano's. The national perception in the past year is that pagano is on the hot seat, and while grigson may also be on thin ice, we don't hear as many reports of him being possibly fired, when he is just as big a problem for them
Other than lucking into an absolute slam dunk of a draft pick, what has that guy done? Nothing at all. As much as we all rag on luck, take luck off the 2012-present colts, and that is a consistent 5-11 team. But it's always pagano that we hear about being on the hot seat but wow what a terrible GM too. That team is a joke
2. The draft is essential for parity. You can't give college players the right to just pick where they want to go. Small market teams would literally die.
3. Draft lotteries are just dumb. Every once in a while you do have some "suck for luck" scenarios, but for the most part the teams that pick at the top are truly the worst teams and need the most help. As pats fans, we all hate Indy, but if it was some random NFC team that sucked for luck in 2011 and got top pick, would we all be as annoyed by it? I don't think so. Even if you include only non playoff teams in the lottery (NHL just started doing this in their 2015 draft), your gonna get some good teams that maybe just had a lot of bad luck in a season (like injuries for example) and they win a lottery. Like for example let's say Seattle just misses the playoffs this year by 1 game, and they win the lottery, do you really think they deserve and/or need the number 1 overall pick more than Detroit does? That would be absurd
This is sort of off topic kinda, but I have no idea why Ryan grigsons seat isn't as hot as chuck pagano's. The national perception in the past year is that pagano is on the hot seat, and while grigson may also be on thin ice, we don't hear as many reports of him being possibly fired, when he is just as big a problem for them
Other than lucking into an absolute slam dunk of a draft pick, what has that guy done? Nothing at all. As much as we all rag on luck, take luck off the 2012-present colts, and that is a consistent 5-11 team. But it's always pagano that we hear about being on the hot seat but wow what a terrible GM too. That team is a joke