Potential new draft schedule

[VrabelMayeWin]

Ick :

NFL draft could get prime-time TV slot in 2010 | NFL Draft News | Sports News | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News

"NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday the league was discussing the possibility of staging the first round of the 2010 draft on a Thursday evening, the second and third rounds Friday evening and the final four rounds Saturday."

 

[DaBruinz]

Goodell is such a twit. Moving the draft off the weekend isn't going to get more people to watch, imho. Especially not if he does what I think he is planning on doing and that is to slowly transition it to be exclusively on NFLN.

The 1st round of the draft took almost over 3 hours. To get the west coast crowd in, you'd have to start the draft at 8 or 9 pm EST. So, now your talking about the 1st round not ending until the wee hours of Friday morning. You'll lose a lot of viewers that way.

The good thing about doing the 1st 2 rounds on a Saturday afternoon is that there really isn't much it conflicts with. Unlike during Prime Time. Especially a Thursday night time slot where you'd have it compete against CSI and possibly Survivor.

 

[bakes781]

And they wonder why the rookie salaries have gotten out of wack?

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

this could aid wheelers and dealers like BB.

a break after the 1st and 3rd rounds makes it easier to set up trades like the Hobbs one. Once you know you have his replacements and the other team still needs that position.

 

[CanadianPat'sFan]

It is all about the $$$$$$$$$

Why do you think he wants more games, well not necessarily more games just more meaningful games (only three pre-season with a 17 game schedule). Jerry McGuire come to mind but now it is the Commish saying it "Show me the Money" god I loved Cuba Gooding Jr in that movie.

 

[VrabelMayeWin]

Goodell is such a twit. Moving the draft off the weekend isn't going to get more people to watch, imho. Especially not if he does what I think he is planning on doing and that is to slowly transition it to be exclusively on NFLN.

The 1st round of the draft took almost over 3 hours. To get the west coast crowd in, you'd have to start the draft at 8 or 9 pm EST. So, now your talking about the 1st round not ending until the wee hours of Friday morning. You'll lose a lot of viewers that way.

The good thing about doing the 1st 2 rounds on a Saturday afternoon is that there really isn't much it conflicts with. Unlike during Prime Time. Especially a Thursday night time slot where you'd have it compete against CSI and possibly Survivor.

The Friday thing makes no sense whatsoever. Yeah, I would take Friday off to watch it but most either wouldn't or couldn't and very few care about rounds 4-7. So they'd get their first round primetime and that would largely be it.

 

[efin98]

Goodell is such a twit. Moving the draft off the weekend isn't going to get more people to watch, imho. Especially not if he does what I think he is planning on doing and that is to slowly transition it to be exclusively on NFLN.

The 1st round of the draft took almost over 3 hours. To get the west coast crowd in, you'd have to start the draft at 8 or 9 pm EST. So, now your talking about the 1st round not ending until the wee hours of Friday morning. You'll lose a lot of viewers that way.

The good thing about doing the 1st 2 rounds on a Saturday afternoon is that there really isn't much it conflicts with. Unlike during Prime Time. Especially a Thursday night time slot where you'd have it compete against CSI and possibly Survivor.

They are putting it up against prime time network shows as well as baseball and the hockey and basketball playoffs- if he thinks the ratings will hold through he is sadly mistaken.

 

[DarrylS]

This is freaking stupid, if anything they should condense it and shorten the whole thing.. too much drama.

 

[Bring Back Antowain!]

Well, they should add back an eighth round IMO.

Especially if they do expand to an 18 game regular season.

 

[efin98]

This is freaking stupid, if anything they should condense it and shorten the whole thing.. too much drama.

Didn't they drop it down to 10 minutes from 15 minutes and move the 3rd round to day two?

 

[DaBruinz]

Didn't they drop it down to 10 minutes from 15 minutes and move the 3rd round to day two?

The 1st round went from 15 minutes to 10 minutes. The second round from 10 to 7. And all other rounds are 5 minutes.

 

[DarrylS]

The 1st round went from 15 minutes to 10 minutes. The second round from 10 to 7. And all other rounds are 5 minutes.

It is still too long and their efforts to create drama tend to make it boring...

 

[DaBruinz]

It is still too long and their efforts to create drama tend to make it boring...

Its not nearly as long as the baseball draft. But then, you can't trade during the baseball draft either.

Sorry that you feel its too long. No one says you have to have your arse glued to the sofa watching it. You can do other things and just get updates for your team on your cell phone.

 

[furley]

I wish the league could've left the first day of the draft at noon or whenever it was before this year. Before you could wake up, wash up, have your breakfast and get ready for the draft. Conversely, Saturday was pure torture for me. My boredom was too much. And with New England trading down twice in the first round which would ultimately move them into the second round. I thought, that stunk! I mean from the standpoint that I'd waited for bloody hours and I'm now made to wait even longer before I can see New England's first draft selection of 2009. I wanted to go to sleep. Because I soon discovered that if I'd forgotten the start time for the draft, overslept or took a nap. It wouldn't have made a difference. The Patriots' pick came at what time? In the evening?

I very seldom watch TV, so I followed the draft on ESPN online. I felt somewhat frustrated each time I would fill with curiosity for each impending selection, the time clock ticking down. And then I see instead a "T" which indicated a trade between the Patriots and another team. I could only... Ugh. What Belichick did during both days was understandable. It was just all the time it took to do all of their deals and selections that was exhausting.

I was sort of surprised when I read the headline of a Hobbs trade. I was more like, "when did this happen...?" I'd to take a rest from being online. And wasn't even aware. Needless to say, this past weekend was more frustrating than fun and quite interesting. I don't want to experience it again if I'd to do it all over. Please go back to starting at noon. Yeah, right... That won't happen...

 

[efin98]

It is still too long and their efforts to create drama tend to make it boring...

They already know what they want and just wait out the clock for two minutes, could be cut down to three or four minutes easily with no loss of trade talks.

 

[efin98]

Its not nearly as long as the baseball draft. But then, you can't trade during the baseball draft either.

It's also 50 rounds with up 1504 people being selected and strict rules that strips teams of the rest of their picks if they choose to pass on making a selection in a round. There is no real comparison between the two drafts.

Sorry that you feel its too long. No one says you have to have your arse glued to the sofa watching it. You can do other things and just get updates for your team on your cell phone.

He's hardly alone in his thinking, it's been debated all over ESPN the last few years as well as other sports talk shows.

 

[OhExaulted1]

Well, they should add back an eighth round IMO.

Especially if they do expand to an 18 game regular season.

I agree, and I really like that Troy Brown kid from Marshall in that spot next year.

 

[furley]

Well, it appears that ESPN scored big in TV ratings this past Saturday, so the NFL and Goodell are liking that. I guess I was wrong. I thought that having something air in the evening, especially on a Friday and Saturday, would be the kiss-of-death TV ratings wise. Because don't most people tend to go out at night to dine out and be among friends? I don't know... But, these changes and proposed changes by Goodell as they pertain to the NFL draft are real. Which sucks...

For me, this would be awesome!

Rounds one through three on Saturday with a start time at either eleven or noon. And rounds four through seven on Sunday with a start time at either ten or eleven. However, I can see those living on the west coast disliking this.



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[Leave No Doubt]

Ick :

NFL draft could get prime-time TV slot in 2010 | NFL Draft News | Sports News | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News

"NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday the league was discussing the possibility of staging the first round of the 2010 draft on a Thursday evening, the second and third rounds Friday evening and the final four rounds Saturday."

The writing's been on the wall for a primetime event-every year the draft's gotten later and later and you knew the 4pm start forshadowed a 2010 6pm at least Actually I kind of like Round 1 on Thursday night but 2 and 3 on a Friday night sort of stinks because that's BB's time but it's also Friday night Owell,it's only once a year but stretching it out to a 3 day event seems a bit much.

Goodell, always fixing what isn't broken