<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Time limits might be shortened for draft picks By Len PasquarelliESPN.comLooking for a streamlined, more manageable and maybe ready-for-primetime NFL draft? Apparently, so is commissioner Roger Goodell.Perhaps as a precursor to eventually presenting the first round as a primetime event, likely on a Friday, Goodell is expected to broach the subject of reducing the time limits for making selections in the first two rounds when owners convene next Tuesday in Nashville for the league's annual spring meeting.This year's draft included the longest first round in history, at six hours and eight minutes. It also had the longest first day, with the first three rounds stretching 11 hours, four minutes.A change in the time limits may not be enacted at Tuesday's one-day session, where the headline agenda item will be the awarding of Super Bowl XLV in 2011 to Phoenix, Dallas or Indianapolis. But in advance of the Nashville meeting, NFL sources told ESPN.com that Goodell has sought guidance from the influential competition committee and requested that the members of the committee gauge sentiment around the league for tightening the limits in the early rounds.Several sources said there is considerable support for doing so.The current time limits are 15 minutes for the first round, 10 minutes for the second, and five minutes for the final five rounds. The competition committee is expected to recommend time limits of 10 minutes for the first round, seven minutes for the second, and five minutes for the remaining rounds.Because the draft falls under the purview of the commissioner, a formal vote technically isn't necessary to enact changes in the lottery, but Goodell is not inclined to act unilaterally on the matter. Instead, the owners could reduce the time limits by simply affirming a recommendation from the competition committee.Such a move would significantly reduce the time required for the first round. Almost as important, it would provide the NFL an opportunity to give prime-time exposure to what has become its biggest offseason event, one that has exploded in popularity over the last several years, and which drew record television ratings last month.</div>http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?i...000000000000000THANK YOU!
Holy shit. I think he could be the best commish ever. He's done so much to help the NFL and fans so far and he's only been here one entire year.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ May 16 2007, 08:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo!</div>Punch yourself in the nuts!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Brooksie5 @ May 16 2007, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ May 16 2007, 08:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo!</div>Punch yourself in the nuts!</div>Sure, lets sacrifice so that TV ratings will go up. Good idea.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ May 16 2007, 10:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Brooksie5 @ May 16 2007, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ May 16 2007, 08:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo!</div>Punch yourself in the nuts!</div>Sure, lets sacrifice so that TV ratings will go up. Good idea.</div>10 minutes is more than enough time to draft a player.
I like the idea. The draft takes far too long nowadays.. Does the team with the first pick that has had essentially 3 months to think about who they want to draft really need a full 15 minutes to pick? They seem to use all 15 anyways just for the hell of it... Then again.. the Vikings did miss their pick in 03 WITH the 15 minutes. Good thing we got Kevin Williams out of that fiasco or else there would have been hell to pay. Also this would prime the draft for a friday night slot which I like a lot better than the saturday afternoon slot.. I hate mulling over draft picks the friday night before lol.
[quote name='Brooksie5' post='92571' date='May 16 2007, 08:22 PM'][quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='92569' date='May 16 2007, 10:13 PM'][quote name='Brooksie5' post='92562' date='May 16 2007, 06:22 PM'][quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='92560' date='May 16 2007, 08:13 PM']Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo![/quote]Punch yourself in the nuts![/quote]Sure, lets sacrifice so that TV ratings will go up. Good idea.[/quote]10 minutes is more than enough time to draft a player.[/quote]It's enough to select a player, it's not near enough to field trade offers and contact all 31 other teams about the pick and then recontact the teams they need to based on what some teams said, etc.You are cutting off the trade possibilities this way.
12 minutes would be better, Im with Vilma on this one. I have no idea why it was so long this year, but before the 07 Draft it wasnt so bad. Takin off a third of the time to make a decision that will effect your franchise for years to come sounds like a little too much to me. 12 minutes please.
Goodell is trying to shorten it too much, trades are definitely a very important factor like Vilma pointed out. Patience is a virtue.
10 minutes. I hate how it took almost all day to get through 45 picks this year.With 10 minutes, it would be at least 60 picks.Plus a shorter clock would force teams to create better plans and strategies than calling every team, asking if they want to trade, then re-calling any team that was interested, etc. etc. etc.
[quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='92575' date='May 16 2007, 08:08 PM'][quote name='Brooksie5' post='92571' date='May 16 2007, 08:22 PM'][quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='92569' date='May 16 2007, 10:13 PM'][quote name='Brooksie5' post='92562' date='May 16 2007, 06:22 PM'][quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='92560' date='May 16 2007, 08:13 PM']Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo![/quote]Punch yourself in the nuts![/quote]Sure, lets sacrifice so that TV ratings will go up. Good idea.[/quote]10 minutes is more than enough time to draft a player.[/quote]It's enough to select a player, it's not near enough to field trade offers and contact all 31 other teams about the pick and then recontact the teams they need to based on what some teams said, etc.You are cutting off the trade possibilities this way.[/quote]If teams went through all that much effort when they are on the clock, I'd agree with you.But the reality is that many draft day trades are worked out weeks ahead of time providing ______ is available at #_____, and in any last ditch effort the team that wanted to trade up would contact you for the pick while you are on the clock (Or begin talks in the 2 picks before you actually go on the clock) so the number of teams they are actually in contact with when they are on the clock you could count on one hand.
[quote name='AdropOFvenom' post='92654' date='May 18 2007, 08:28 AM'][quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='92575' date='May 16 2007, 08:08 PM'][quote name='Brooksie5' post='92571' date='May 16 2007, 08:22 PM'][quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='92569' date='May 16 2007, 10:13 PM'][quote name='Brooksie5' post='92562' date='May 16 2007, 06:22 PM'][quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='92560' date='May 16 2007, 08:13 PM']Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo![/quote]Punch yourself in the nuts![/quote]Sure, lets sacrifice so that TV ratings will go up. Good idea.[/quote]10 minutes is more than enough time to draft a player.[/quote]It's enough to select a player, it's not near enough to field trade offers and contact all 31 other teams about the pick and then recontact the teams they need to based on what some teams said, etc.You are cutting off the trade possibilities this way.[/quote]If teams went through all that much effort when they are on the clock, I'd agree with you.But the reality is that many draft day trades are worked out weeks ahead of time providing ______ is available at #_____, and in any last ditch effort the team that wanted to trade up would contact you for the pick while you are on the clock (Or begin talks in the 2 picks before you actually go on the clock) so the number of teams they are actually in contact with when they are on the clock you could count on one hand.[/quote]I know for sure at least 1 team that was negotiating trades with 4 teams for their pick. The Carolina Panthers at 14 overall. With 10 minutes instead of 15, who knows who would have ended up with the pick. Maybe it would have been the Browns who were trying to trade up with every team since pick 12, or the Broncos for one of their guys or whomever the 4th team was.You have to have time to be able to call teams back and forth to get the best deal possible.If I'm an NFL GM, I'd want more time, not less.
They didn't need 15 mins to discuss a trade. They had ever since the team had called to try and negotiate, if they don't accept terms, move on with it instead of bullshitting about it for a few extra mins.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Capt. Comeback @ May 18 2007, 03:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>They didn't need 15 mins to discuss a trade. They had ever since the team had called to try and negotiate, if they don't accept terms, move on with it instead of bullshitting about it for a few extra mins.</div>You don't think a team might want more than 15 seconds to decide on what will financially effect their business for the next decade?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ May 18 2007, 03:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Capt. Comeback @ May 18 2007, 03:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>They didn't need 15 mins to discuss a trade. They had ever since the team had called to try and negotiate, if they don't accept terms, move on with it instead of bullshitting about it for a few extra mins.</div>You don't think a team might want more than 15 seconds to decide on what will financially effect their business for the next decade?</div>Redskin fans arent the most knowledgeable when it comes to the Draft day process.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ May 18 2007, 06:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Capt. Comeback @ May 18 2007, 03:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>They didn't need 15 mins to discuss a trade. They had ever since the team had called to try and negotiate, if they don't accept terms, move on with it instead of bullshitting about it for a few extra mins.</div>You don't think a team might want more than 15 seconds to decide on what will financially effect their business for the next decade?</div>It shouldn't matter. They've had the entire offseason to think of it, and even more time to discuss things over since the end of the NCAA season. I do believe that's enough time to look at teams, call them up, and then try and work out a deal they may make beforehand, or on draft day. We are talking a few months of planning before the draft, but those few minutes during the draft are more important?
