So you wouldve been ok the old NFC east and west before the expansion of Carolina and Jacksonville?
OPINION Would “parity”die in the NFL if we eliminated the draft?
- Thread starter Shaquille Sunflower
- Start date
Or the wild card changes in the NFL
Or them adding more reg season games over the last 40+ years.
Or adding free agency.
Yeah it's not like they haven't made any changes before.
mike030270
Memes
Browns have been bad for years while drafting in the top. Now they won a playoff game. All depends on how you build the team and if you have a decent coaches. Patriots have been drafting in the bottom(20+) for years and now they're at 15 this year
Jags had a moment a few years ago where their defense was pretty good but their offense needed a QB. They then crashed and burned. Now they have a new coach and Trevor. Jets are the Jets lol
Jags had a moment a few years ago where their defense was pretty good but their offense needed a QB. They then crashed and burned. Now they have a new coach and Trevor. Jets are the Jets lol
aight so this might be kinda long winded
i really need to eat but fuck it lol
so let me get a couple of things out of the way b/c for some reason this keeps being brought up
Veterans:
Under this make-believe scenario, the veterans would be treated the same way they are currently being treated. Some will continue to get paid top dollar b/c of their play, some will be phased out due to attrition. The current draft situation has no bearing on those players and under this make-believe situation, that will continue to be the case.
For those who keep thinking well teams will just get cheap with talent, that's not going to happen as you still need to fill out a roster. You cant fill out a gameday roster with just draft picks. Again, it would be essentially the exact same as the current draft system where a player is drafted by a team then compete for a roster spot.
Rookies:
In my scenario, a pool of money is used to get the talent. Read my previous post on this. I'm not typing all of that again.
You can draft as many players as you are able to negotiate with using the pool of money. If you blow your wad on two players, tough titty. If you try to be cheap and just low ball your way to signing a bunch of depth. Tough titty as those dudes might not even make the roster, but the money you bid on them is guaranteed. So no take-backs. You cant bid on a player and if he doesnt make your gameday roster, try to recoup that money. It's his. If you cut him, its his and he is free to sign with another team. The player gets to interview the team instead of the team interviewing the player.
Not every prospect will be coveted by every franchise based on need, fit, current roster construction, etc.. JUST LIKE THE CURRENT DRAFT SYSTEM.
If a team JUST drafted a qb, blew their wad on that player in one year, you really think they would do the exact same thing the following year?
Now that I think about it, the model that Im using in baseball does have an actual draft for the american born players and I think what im suggesting is for international prospects in baseball, but fuck it...lets get crazy...blow the shit up altogether and just make it so that there is essentially no draft and the teams have to compete with each other for the rights to prospects.
i really need to eat but fuck it lol
so let me get a couple of things out of the way b/c for some reason this keeps being brought up
Veterans:
Under this make-believe scenario, the veterans would be treated the same way they are currently being treated. Some will continue to get paid top dollar b/c of their play, some will be phased out due to attrition. The current draft situation has no bearing on those players and under this make-believe situation, that will continue to be the case.
For those who keep thinking well teams will just get cheap with talent, that's not going to happen as you still need to fill out a roster. You cant fill out a gameday roster with just draft picks. Again, it would be essentially the exact same as the current draft system where a player is drafted by a team then compete for a roster spot.
Rookies:
In my scenario, a pool of money is used to get the talent. Read my previous post on this. I'm not typing all of that again.
You can draft as many players as you are able to negotiate with using the pool of money. If you blow your wad on two players, tough titty. If you try to be cheap and just low ball your way to signing a bunch of depth. Tough titty as those dudes might not even make the roster, but the money you bid on them is guaranteed. So no take-backs. You cant bid on a player and if he doesnt make your gameday roster, try to recoup that money. It's his. If you cut him, its his and he is free to sign with another team. The player gets to interview the team instead of the team interviewing the player.
Not every prospect will be coveted by every franchise based on need, fit, current roster construction, etc.. JUST LIKE THE CURRENT DRAFT SYSTEM.
If a team JUST drafted a qb, blew their wad on that player in one year, you really think they would do the exact same thing the following year?
Now that I think about it, the model that Im using in baseball does have an actual draft for the american born players and I think what im suggesting is for international prospects in baseball, but fuck it...lets get crazy...blow the shit up altogether and just make it so that there is essentially no draft and the teams have to compete with each other for the rights to prospects.
Lost in all this is the failure to comprehend that will still be Veteran free agents to choose from if a team doesn't get any new rookies and there's always going to be players for cheap who don't get picked.
So this notion that a franchise will collapse is silly to me
So this notion that a franchise will collapse is silly to me
Dwayne
Just a lowkey chill guy
SeaSnake
OG
I’m talking about today and being that I’m not an nfl player it wouldn’t matter
Bow to Royalty
Just facts
Veterans: I don't think anyone is saying people would cut vets just to save money. What were saying is when it's time to replace a vet a more attractive team can do it easily for cheap through this no draft system. The Jags on the other hand will have to pay market value for FA's to fill holes with quality players.
Rookie money pool: This will just bring back the problem from before the rookie wage scale. Money tied up in bums. Sorry teams need to outbid more appealing teams to give a fully guaranteed contract to a player that hasn't taken a snap in the NFL. That's how you end up paying a rookie QB $35 million a season and find out he plays like Trubisky. Now your salary cap situation is messed up, and you have nothing to show for it.
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
you're not going to fill a 53 game day roster with first year players
besides, with the current draft system, they are always drafting a veterans replacement in one draft or another. My proposal does not change this. You see a need, you draft that need or rather bid for that need.
Rookie money pool
I disagree. The old way was the rest of the draft class was set based on what the first pick was paid regardless of position.
You are going to a job interview at Google, IBM, Apple, all located in different parts of the country. They all offer you a salary. YOU decide which one you are going to take. If a team wants to pay your hypothetical $35M to a player ( i realize i didnt specify how much the draft pool would be but let's say its $40M) they are the ones dumb enough to overbid themselves into signing one player that much knowing there are other deficiencies in the roster.
ok man
Dwayne
Just a lowkey chill guy
Lmao
define older
are you saying a 26 yr old is old compared to a 22 yr old coming in as a rookie?
or are you assuming the pool of players is 35/36 with one foot out the door?
Don't know how many times this is been said but: IT'S LIKE THAT NOW
Y'all keep bring up these supposed potential problems that's already happening and been happening for years.
It's like people too busy looking for the gotcha moment instead of reading the words on the page
Bow to Royalty
Just facts
Bruh, why do you keep talking about filling a roster with rookies when nobody else is? I've given examples already. The question is will this kill parity. I think I already explained this. The Chiefs lost Watkins and 2 starting OT's. Giving them the ability to bring in 3 guys graded as first round talents to replace them would hurt parity.
THREE PEOPLE. NOT 53.
THREE PEOPLE. NOT 53.
THREE PEOPLE. NOT 53.
THREE PEOPLE. NOT 53.
THREE PEOPLE. NOT 53.
Last edited:
Bow to Royalty
Just facts
No it's not. The Bucs draft 32nd. They're not gonna be capable of bringing in multiple people ranked near the top of the draft, or multiple guys ranked the best at their position at a significant discount. Bucs get who gets passed on 31 times. Then who gets passed on 63 times. Etc.
Ok.
I apologize
I understand your pov better now, however, the chiefs using your scenario would have to prioritize their need based on what I'm proposing. They won't simply be able to just outbid everyone for each of those positions.