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Who Hugged Roger Goodell Longest At Last Night's NFL Draft?
Would you hug Roger Goodell? Is this a face that demands embrace? Probably not, assuming you’re not his spouse, or child, or one of the 32 men whose lifelong dreams of earning millions as a professional football player came true upon hearing the NFL commissioner read your name last night....
Daniel Jones, Huh?
For the first time in forever (and a few years after it should have happened), the New York Giants have a quarterback of the future. Duke’s Daniel Jones is the anointed successor to Eli Manning, the shiny new model to replace the beaten-up old jalopy who’s running on rims. Orderly succession is the ...
Dwayne Haskins Doomed For Up To Four Years As A Washington Quarterback
The Washington football team selected Ohio State quarterback, and Maryland native, Dwayne Haskins with the 15th overall pick in the NFL draft. Haskins fell to Dan Snyder’s vanity project through a combination of other teams focusing on positional needs, or going with strange draft strategies....
Raiders Do Fairly Raiders Thing
When the Oakland Raiders selected Clemson’s Clelin Ferrell with the fourth pick in the NFL Draft, the response from fans was mixed to say the least. Some were frustrated, like the man at the top of this post, while others were just flat out confused, like the fan in this clip that stopped to look ar...
Cardinals Pick Kyler Murray First Overall, Stuff Josh Rosen In The Attic
Back in October, Texas Tech’s then-head coach Kliff Kingsbury had high praise for the Oklahoma quarterback his team was about to face, Kyler Murray. He told reporters that if he could, he’d take Murray with the first pick of the draft. The Cardinals appeared to take that comment into serious conside...
How Will Your Team Screw Up In The NFL Draft?
When Drew Magary asks if you’re excited about something, the initial impulse is generally to say yes. The man is large and eager and highly excitable, and when he is excited the instinct is to be excited, too. You would no more tell him that you are not excited than you would say “ugh, relax” to a b...
An Incomplete List Of Things I Can Never Do Again
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here....
Which 2013 NFL Draft Prospect Supposedly Tweeted So Much That A Team Lectured Him In A Meeting?
Sports Illustrated’s Kalyn Kahler has a long, detailed story out today over at the MMQB about the pitfalls and importance of scrubbing old tweets from NFL prospects ahead of the draft. There’s a lot of work that goes into preventing another Josh Allen situation. Sometimes, it’s fruitless, and other ...
Welcome To The Jon Gruden Show
The NFL Draft is the world’s largest nonsense bazaar, and more tonnage is shoveled in the final two weeks than in the other 50 combined, so when Ian Rapoport tweeted out the other day that Jon Gruden and Mike Mayock sent all the Raiders’ scouts home and did not expect to recall them before the NFL D...
Las Vegas Aces Choose Jackie Young Over Asia Durr In WNBA Draft
For the third year in a row, the Las Vegas Aces franchise had the first pick in the WNBA draft, and after selecting first-year All-Star and Rookie of the Year A’Ja Wilson in 2018, the worst team in the West took Notre Dame guard Jackie Young with their first pick in 2019....
The New York Rangers Will Have The Easiest Decision Of The NHL Draft
The New Jersey Devils beat their lottery odds of 11.5 percent Tuesday night, and landed the first overall pick in this year’s NHL draft. But perhaps even more fortunate than the Devils is another team that jumped up higher than their projected position—the New York Rangers, who’ll draft second....
How The Rise Of Comp Picks Is Chilling NFL Free Agency
Compensatory picks have been a low-key feature of the NFL draft since 1994, the year after free agency finally became a thing. But this offseason, more and more teams appear to be finessing the free agency system in an attempt to to stockpile comp picks. And it’s created something of a freeze on the...
A Reasoned And Correct Ranking Of NBA Teams, By Their Suitability For Zion Williamson
Zion Williamson is going to be the first overall pick of the 2019 NBA Draft. What follows is a reasoned and near-scientific ranking of all NBA teams in order of how cool it would be if they had Williamson as a rookie. Only 14 teams are actually in the running to win the draft lottery for the right t...
Charley Casserly Probably Wishes He'd Kept His Mouth Shut
Draft hype season is one of the most painful stretches on the NFL calendar, but at least it’s not hard to see why there are so many manufactured angles and storylines stretched far behind their capacity to support interest. As good as Nick Bosa may be, a lineman (or any non–skill position player) go...
Jaguars Junction Has Determined Exactly Who The Jaguars Should Take In NFL Draft 2019
Google defines NFL Draft 2019 as “Apr 25- Apr 27,” and already people are “mocking” who the Jacksonville Jaguars will select, in the NFL Draft. The following “fan-alysis,” combining history, metrics, and knowledge, reveals the fact that there is only one smart choice. ...
Kyler Murray And His Height Are This Year's Target For The Anonymous NFL Scouts
As Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray has moved on up from A’s draftee to intriguing NFL draft possibility to likely first-rounder all the way to potential first overall selection, the noise around him has grown louder and dumber. At this time of year, the cabal of anonymous NFL scouts loves nothing...
Steve Smith Had To Tell Tyree Jackson To Stop Throwing So Hard At Receivers During Their Combine Drills
The powers that be at the NFL combine realized long ago that they can recycle players in attendance from drill to drill, regardless of whether those players are the ones actually being evaluated. This was the case Saturday afternoon during the gauntlet drill for receiver prospects....
Steve Smith Had To Tell Tyree Jackson To Stop Throwing So Hard At Receivers During Their Combine Drills
The powers that be at the NFL combine realized long ago that they can recycle players in attendance from drill to drill, regardless of whether those players are the ones actually being evaluated. This was the case Saturday afternoon during the gauntlet drill for receiver prospects....
Some NFL Teams Want Trace McSorley To Try And Play Defensive Back, For Some Reason
In the realm of football and the NFL, it’s currently one of the most insane times of the year: combine season. Sports writers, GMs and coaches all make the annual pilgrimage to the holy land of Indianapolis, forget their basic understandings of how society normally work, and try to determine the sup...
Some NFL Teams Want Trace McSorley To Try And Play Defensive Back, For Some Reason
In the realm of football and the NFL, it’s currently one of the most insane times of the year: combine season. Sports writers, GMs and coaches all make the annual pilgrimage to the holy land of Indianapolis, forget their basic understandings of how society normally work, and try to determine the sup...