Comments on: Before the supplemental draft, the NFL has its own draft lottery

By: jedicurt

jedicurt — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:44:49 +0000

“After the order is established through the three drawings, the supplemental draft is conducted with teams going in order, round by round, either passing on their order or making a pick.”

ummm actually… no… this is not how it works at all… at teams e-mail the league the player name and round inwhich they would like to take the player… the highest round (1 to 7) given is the winner… if two teams both put the same round on a player, then it goes to the order established by the lottery.

how is it that i know this, and you are the one getting paid to write????

By: sportfreak1996

sportfreak1996 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:49:18 +0000

Always thought they should have a 4-team “Toilet Bowl” playoff for the top picks.

The 4 worst teams play a tournament with Semifinals on the Saturday before the AFC/NFC Championship Games, then the Final during the week off before the Super Bowl (or the Saturday before the Super Bowl if there is no off week). Semifinals hosted by the Worst and 2nd-to-Worst teams (makes it a little tougher for the 3rd/4th teams to obtain the top picks)

The winner of the tourney gets the #1 pick, the runner-up gets the #2 pick. The remaining teams are set by their record, so even if the worst team lost their Semifinal game, the worst pick they can get is #3.

Am I wrong, but wouldn’t this get much better ratings than the meaningless Pro Bowl? 3 more NFL “Playoff” games, even two bad teams that match-up well can play a good game, what’s not to like?

By: samoanjungle

samoanjungle — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:55:25 +0000

Well it’s not on TV because we would be sitting there watching all the teams go “pass”, “pass”,”pass’ for like 90 times while Jerra Jones squirms in his chair going “giggity giggity” everytime a team passes.

By: pleazenufalready

pleazenufalready — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:03:34 +0000

If they want to take this approach for a draft that nobody cares about, then I guess it’s OK. However, they should NEVER take this approach for the regular draft like the NBA did. Everyone knows that the only reason the NBA went to that process was to make sure that the Knicks got Patrick Ewing. It was a joke of a procedure then and remains so today.

By: profootballwalk

profootballwalk — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:55:01 +0000

So the league does nothing about Suck for Luck, but they have a lottery for five also-rans?

By: fatguystrangler

fatguystrangler — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:29:07 +0000

You’re right. I had no idea how there was a lottery process for the Supplemental Draft.

By: bhindenemylines

bhindenemylines — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:27:45 +0000

geauxjay says:
Jul 11, 2012 12:45 PM
Are they letting the Saints pick, or is he going to steal that pick with no shown evidence too?
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All you Saints fans better quit your crying soon or else all of the tears will cause Katrina 2.0

You probably still believe OJ is innocent.

Shut up already.

By: bo1210

bo1210 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:26:49 +0000

I’m fine with that concept, mainly because it’s only for the supp draft, but I find it interesting that they don’t talk about it. Makes me wonder what other secrets Goodell is keeping…

By: thegreatgabbert

thegreatgabbert — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:13:04 +0000

They hold a lottery to see which team wins the right to pay millions of dollars to some guy who was expelled from college.

By: benh999

benh999 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:03:05 +0000

Makes sense since teams lose draft picks for a draft that’s order hasn’t been determined yet.

By: cbusbrownie

cbusbrownie — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:56:15 +0000

It is true that there are no trades in the Supp draft.
So if that is accurate, then Mike I think a team would be using a 2013 draft pick that is assigned to each team by the league for the above mentioned reasons, not a pick they attained via a trade. Sounds logical, but needs clarity I know.

Oh, by the way, the minute the Supp Lotto and Draft are televised, I am right in from of my favorite TV, in my favorite chair with bells on.

By: jason49er

jason49er — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:55:13 +0000

The sad part is I’d rather watch the NFL supplemental draft than the NBA regular draft anyday.

By: geauxjay

geauxjay — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:45:29 +0000

Are they letting the Saints pick, or is he going to steal that pick with no shown evidence too?

By: snowpea84

snowpea84 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:38:10 +0000

No one cares about the supplemental draft. It’s about as exciting as the undrafted free agents. (Which is funny because people get more excited over them than over their teams 7th round picks.)

By: mikeinsanfran

mikeinsanfran — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:21:04 +0000

You missed answering one big question: What if a team holds another team’s pick? The Niners hold Carolina’s 3rd round pick. Can they use that on Josh (It will be a top 10 pick in the 3rd round) or must they only be allowed to use their own 3rd round pick (Likely last 5 in 3rd round)?