My enthusiasm for the draft has been squelched over the last decade.
1. From a Pats perspective, it's usually a big tease. We never cash in on all of our picks, especially the early ones. Even drafts that are great feel like they could be better.
2. I drove to NYC in 2006 for draft weekend, camped out for tickets and had a blast... until we picked. Got Laurence Maroney, hands down my least favorite player projected to go in the first couple rounds, over Manny Lawson and DeAngelo Williams, two guys I loved.
Irrational as my feelings may have been, the Maroney pick and cutting Lawyer Milloy are the only two times I can truly say I hated BB for a few moments. And then we trade up for Chad Jackson with GB and they end up with Greg Jennings... Just brilliant.
3. Patriots second round = Bermuda Triangle
4. The amount of draft coverage out now makes me want to puke. You get jackasses that don't even watch college football and just head to some draft website, check out rankings and immediately think they're experts. AKA, your mock draft that you spent no time articulating in the fall and just put together after 45 mins of research and 1-2 hours of writing sucks. Get lost.
5. Habitually missing on WRs, RBs, OLBs, CBs, DEs and Safties is enough to make me go bald. Evaluating TEs, OLs, DTs is clearly BB and Co's forte. But I'm tried of seeing the same kind of misses year in and year out.
Regardless, I'll be parked in front of the TV with my laptop in tow watching just about every second of coverage. I'm a junkie...