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I Support the FANS...
Players and Owners, you listening?
Pat Tarell, March 16, 2011
Every football related sports site on the web has the magic poll button
asking fans to choose; the players or the owners? I choose not to
choose… Everyone who was ever been lied to and cheated on in a
relationship understands the feeling of humiliation that comes with being
duped, having trusted someone with that which is special to you only to
have it thrown in your face like it was meaningless. This is what the NFL
has done to its loyal fans.
The fans who have shelled out their tax dollars for stadiums while
neglecting the notion that the money could have been better spent on
educating their children. The fans who have spent Sunday in front of the
television while neglecting household duties that eventually lead to angry
spouses and family disconnections. The fans who have spent hundreds
of dollars preparing food, driving for hours to stadiums, paying a
premium for every concession from parking to French fries while
neglecting a roof in need of replacement on their own house. I know
these issues because I have done all of these things. I certainly am not
alone in the folks who have made sacrifices to watch their teams on
Sunday.
We hear talk about the heart and the soul of the NFL, well these fans are
the NFL. I hear the players say there would be no games without the
players. I hear the owners say there would be no venue, no teams, and
no structure without the owners. Listen closely players and owners…
There is no game without the fans. There are no millions and billions
without the fans. We pay your checks, each and every one of you, so
perhaps before you begin deciding how you should split up this
obnoxious nine billion dollar pie maybe you should consider where it
comes from.
We don’t ask for much, but we do ask that our game (and it is our game)
be played without interruption while you haggle over how to split up the
ridiculous amount of money you are lining your pockets with. While you
worry about how to split a yearly salary that is more than I will make in a
lifetime, perhaps you could do so without taking the game away from your
cash cow.
The NFL needs a wake-up call, nothing lasts forever and the end is
usually predictable by the greed that precedes it. When we hear Adrian
Peterson refer to the GAME of football as slave labor we begin to
understand how far from reality the entire league has gone. The guy is
being paid millions and calling himself a slave. Not only is this an
incredible insult to anyone who has ever been indentured but it is beyond
the realm of real world people. The truth is we really don’t care too much
about all this money. We know the game is physical and the owners take
risks as businessmen, the money only worms its way into our
consciousness when the game is taken away.
The NFL needs to get the message real quick, the game belongs to the
fans. Without the fans there is no game, no checks, no need worry about
being indentured to play for millions of dollars. Therefore, I do not
choose the players and I do not choose the owners, my overwhelming
choice is us, the fans, and the ones who are the engine that makes this
great game go. They want to haggle over splitting the pie, fine but do it
while they’re out there on the field, because there is no game without the
fans and all we really want is to sit down and watch the game without
worrying about lockouts, de-certification and the rest of the lawyer
rhetoric. Get on the damn field and play the game before we show you
where you can stuff your nine billion dollars.
SIGNED: THE FANS
Because AFATT Says So!
Players and Owners, you listening?
Pat Tarell, March 16, 2011
Every football related sports site on the web has the magic poll button
asking fans to choose; the players or the owners? I choose not to
choose… Everyone who was ever been lied to and cheated on in a
relationship understands the feeling of humiliation that comes with being
duped, having trusted someone with that which is special to you only to
have it thrown in your face like it was meaningless. This is what the NFL
has done to its loyal fans.
The fans who have shelled out their tax dollars for stadiums while
neglecting the notion that the money could have been better spent on
educating their children. The fans who have spent Sunday in front of the
television while neglecting household duties that eventually lead to angry
spouses and family disconnections. The fans who have spent hundreds
of dollars preparing food, driving for hours to stadiums, paying a
premium for every concession from parking to French fries while
neglecting a roof in need of replacement on their own house. I know
these issues because I have done all of these things. I certainly am not
alone in the folks who have made sacrifices to watch their teams on
Sunday.
We hear talk about the heart and the soul of the NFL, well these fans are
the NFL. I hear the players say there would be no games without the
players. I hear the owners say there would be no venue, no teams, and
no structure without the owners. Listen closely players and owners…
There is no game without the fans. There are no millions and billions
without the fans. We pay your checks, each and every one of you, so
perhaps before you begin deciding how you should split up this
obnoxious nine billion dollar pie maybe you should consider where it
comes from.
We don’t ask for much, but we do ask that our game (and it is our game)
be played without interruption while you haggle over how to split up the
ridiculous amount of money you are lining your pockets with. While you
worry about how to split a yearly salary that is more than I will make in a
lifetime, perhaps you could do so without taking the game away from your
cash cow.
The NFL needs a wake-up call, nothing lasts forever and the end is
usually predictable by the greed that precedes it. When we hear Adrian
Peterson refer to the GAME of football as slave labor we begin to
understand how far from reality the entire league has gone. The guy is
being paid millions and calling himself a slave. Not only is this an
incredible insult to anyone who has ever been indentured but it is beyond
the realm of real world people. The truth is we really don’t care too much
about all this money. We know the game is physical and the owners take
risks as businessmen, the money only worms its way into our
consciousness when the game is taken away.
The NFL needs to get the message real quick, the game belongs to the
fans. Without the fans there is no game, no checks, no need worry about
being indentured to play for millions of dollars. Therefore, I do not
choose the players and I do not choose the owners, my overwhelming
choice is us, the fans, and the ones who are the engine that makes this
great game go. They want to haggle over splitting the pie, fine but do it
while they’re out there on the field, because there is no game without the
fans and all we really want is to sit down and watch the game without
worrying about lockouts, de-certification and the rest of the lawyer
rhetoric. Get on the damn field and play the game before we show you
where you can stuff your nine billion dollars.
SIGNED: THE FANS
Because AFATT Says So!
Should we Support the Owners or Players
By Joe Tarell, March 16, 2011
Football fans are being put in a precarious situation by the labor
strife going on right now in the NFL. The former NFLPA has
drawn a line in the sand and refused to yield to the owners on
many of the issues that divide them. For many fans it is difficult to
find the true points of contention because there are so many
issues on the table affecting the outcome of the Collective
Bargaining Agreement. Is it the 18 game schedule, the off-
season workouts, the players’ health care benefits, retired players
fund, rookie wage scale or the myriad of other issues that have
been debated endlessly? Where does the average fan stand on
these issues and who do they side with as both groups continually
state their case by referencing their everlasting devotion to the
fans (or more likely, their money).
The description of issues above was merely a smoke screen
designed to confuse the readers of AFATT in much the same way
these two teams’ of lawyers have tried to confuse us and each
other for the last few months. None of those topics mean
anything in this debate. To see where the real issues lie, stick to
the age-old proverb, “follow the money.” The owners have it;
hence their title of “owner” and the players want it. Many of us
face a similar dilemma in our place of employment. The owners
want to reduce our pay. The problem is that the owners, in the
case of the NFL have done nothing but increase the pay of their
employees over the last few years. They have now reached the
point where they have decided it is time to slow the rate of
increase to match the rate of return they are seeing in their P&L
statement.
Nobody likes a pay cut and most of America is represented by
employees, not employers, so the NFLPA believes they can win
over the fan support and this will help apply pressure to the
owners. At AFATT we believe this to be a flawed strategy and we
also believe that their tactics are flawed. It is one thing to start
with a bad strategic plan, but when you use poor tactics along the
way in executing your strategic plan, it almost always results in
failure.
From a strategic standpoint, understand that most
fans/employees do not want to equate their personal work
situation to the players’ dilemma. Playing in the NFL is a fantasy
life for most of us. As my brother likes to say, “I would give my left
nut for the chance to play in the league.” When your minimum
salary is nearly ten times what most people can expect from an
entry level job coming out of college with a general studies
degree, it is hard to be sympathetic. In addition, when the salary
cap has risen from $85 Million per team in 2005 to $128 Million in
2009, no one should feel that the player’s are being slighted.
Then the NFL proposes to raise it to $161 Million by 2014 in their
current proposal and the NFLPA says that is not enough, we
would rather let the lawyer’s settle this one. We believe it is a bad
strategy to appeal to the fans and bad tactics to decide to fatten
the wallets of the lawyers by de-certifying and taking it to court.
So, with all that pre-amble let’s get to the heart of the matter. We
call ourselves, AFATT, brought to you by Joe Tarell and the Tarell
brothers. That stands for All Football All The Time. We damn
sure do not like litigation, lockouts, strikes or anything else that
gets in the way of football. The anger around here though is
squarely directed at the players. This is America and if I built it
and I own it then I make the rules. This is a capitalist society and
we here at AFATT are not too personally thrilled by unions,
especially in this case where our loyalties as fans lie with our
teams. We root for our favorite teams, not our favorite players.
Joe Tarell is writing this article and I am a Redskins fan. I have
watched my team turn over in part every year since 1969 and all I
care about is this; for the season in question, they are a Redskin.
My Redskin heroes are guys like Jurgensen, Riggins, Bostic,
Gibbs, etc. I don’t care where else they played; Riggins is not a
Jet and Jets fans did not switch their allegiance to the Redskins
when he came to our team. Likewise, Pat Tarell is a Dolphin Fan,
he hates the Jets even more after they sign Jason Taylor and
hates Jason Taylor for signing with them. Rick Tarell and Tony
Tarell are Eagles fans, they did not join their brother Joe when
Donovan McNabb signed with the rival Redskins, no, they taped
over their McNabb jersey and made it a Vick jersey.
We recognize that fantasy football fans with no allegiance to any
one team, or huge college football fans may follow their favorite
players to the NFL and root for the team because of the player,
but that is the exception, not the rule. Fans root for teams and
the faster the NFLPA recognizes this, changes their strategy and
gets a deal done, the better off they will be.
Further proof of the poor strategic thinking from the NFLPA was
the hiring of DeMaurice Smith and allowing him to drive this
process. He is a lawyer and an outsider, he is learning on the
job. It is our belief that he has ulterior motives for personal glory,
not what is best for the players or the league and he has taken
them down a path that can only lead to a bad deal. All the issues
around player safety and longer seasons, and rookie wage scales
were all smoke screens designed to punish the owners for signing
a bad deal in the last CBA. The owners protected $1 Billion from
the split of revenues instead of protecting a percentage of
revenue. That, boys and girls is what they are fighting over.
It costs money to make money so the owners’ expenses went up
as they drove the league from roughly $5 Billion in revenue in
2005 to $9.3 Billion in 2010. The billion dollars they protected
from the split went from 20% of the total to 10.75%, roughly half
as much as a percent of total revenue. What the owners need to
do is not protect a revenue number, but protect a percentage of
revenue so that the protected money (not subject to the 64-36
split in favor of the players) goes up as revenues, and hence,
expenses go up. The players, who used to complain that Gene
Upshaw was a puppet for the league, had a great deal and now it
has to go away. At least they start the new deal with twice as
much money as they did last time.
That, my friends, is what we are fighting about… in the humble (or
sometimes not so humble) opinion of Joe Tarell and AFATT.
Because AFATT Says So…
By Joe Tarell, March 16, 2011
Football fans are being put in a precarious situation by the labor
strife going on right now in the NFL. The former NFLPA has
drawn a line in the sand and refused to yield to the owners on
many of the issues that divide them. For many fans it is difficult to
find the true points of contention because there are so many
issues on the table affecting the outcome of the Collective
Bargaining Agreement. Is it the 18 game schedule, the off-
season workouts, the players’ health care benefits, retired players
fund, rookie wage scale or the myriad of other issues that have
been debated endlessly? Where does the average fan stand on
these issues and who do they side with as both groups continually
state their case by referencing their everlasting devotion to the
fans (or more likely, their money).
The description of issues above was merely a smoke screen
designed to confuse the readers of AFATT in much the same way
these two teams’ of lawyers have tried to confuse us and each
other for the last few months. None of those topics mean
anything in this debate. To see where the real issues lie, stick to
the age-old proverb, “follow the money.” The owners have it;
hence their title of “owner” and the players want it. Many of us
face a similar dilemma in our place of employment. The owners
want to reduce our pay. The problem is that the owners, in the
case of the NFL have done nothing but increase the pay of their
employees over the last few years. They have now reached the
point where they have decided it is time to slow the rate of
increase to match the rate of return they are seeing in their P&L
statement.
Nobody likes a pay cut and most of America is represented by
employees, not employers, so the NFLPA believes they can win
over the fan support and this will help apply pressure to the
owners. At AFATT we believe this to be a flawed strategy and we
also believe that their tactics are flawed. It is one thing to start
with a bad strategic plan, but when you use poor tactics along the
way in executing your strategic plan, it almost always results in
failure.
From a strategic standpoint, understand that most
fans/employees do not want to equate their personal work
situation to the players’ dilemma. Playing in the NFL is a fantasy
life for most of us. As my brother likes to say, “I would give my left
nut for the chance to play in the league.” When your minimum
salary is nearly ten times what most people can expect from an
entry level job coming out of college with a general studies
degree, it is hard to be sympathetic. In addition, when the salary
cap has risen from $85 Million per team in 2005 to $128 Million in
2009, no one should feel that the player’s are being slighted.
Then the NFL proposes to raise it to $161 Million by 2014 in their
current proposal and the NFLPA says that is not enough, we
would rather let the lawyer’s settle this one. We believe it is a bad
strategy to appeal to the fans and bad tactics to decide to fatten
the wallets of the lawyers by de-certifying and taking it to court.
So, with all that pre-amble let’s get to the heart of the matter. We
call ourselves, AFATT, brought to you by Joe Tarell and the Tarell
brothers. That stands for All Football All The Time. We damn
sure do not like litigation, lockouts, strikes or anything else that
gets in the way of football. The anger around here though is
squarely directed at the players. This is America and if I built it
and I own it then I make the rules. This is a capitalist society and
we here at AFATT are not too personally thrilled by unions,
especially in this case where our loyalties as fans lie with our
teams. We root for our favorite teams, not our favorite players.
Joe Tarell is writing this article and I am a Redskins fan. I have
watched my team turn over in part every year since 1969 and all I
care about is this; for the season in question, they are a Redskin.
My Redskin heroes are guys like Jurgensen, Riggins, Bostic,
Gibbs, etc. I don’t care where else they played; Riggins is not a
Jet and Jets fans did not switch their allegiance to the Redskins
when he came to our team. Likewise, Pat Tarell is a Dolphin Fan,
he hates the Jets even more after they sign Jason Taylor and
hates Jason Taylor for signing with them. Rick Tarell and Tony
Tarell are Eagles fans, they did not join their brother Joe when
Donovan McNabb signed with the rival Redskins, no, they taped
over their McNabb jersey and made it a Vick jersey.
We recognize that fantasy football fans with no allegiance to any
one team, or huge college football fans may follow their favorite
players to the NFL and root for the team because of the player,
but that is the exception, not the rule. Fans root for teams and
the faster the NFLPA recognizes this, changes their strategy and
gets a deal done, the better off they will be.
Further proof of the poor strategic thinking from the NFLPA was
the hiring of DeMaurice Smith and allowing him to drive this
process. He is a lawyer and an outsider, he is learning on the
job. It is our belief that he has ulterior motives for personal glory,
not what is best for the players or the league and he has taken
them down a path that can only lead to a bad deal. All the issues
around player safety and longer seasons, and rookie wage scales
were all smoke screens designed to punish the owners for signing
a bad deal in the last CBA. The owners protected $1 Billion from
the split of revenues instead of protecting a percentage of
revenue. That, boys and girls is what they are fighting over.
It costs money to make money so the owners’ expenses went up
as they drove the league from roughly $5 Billion in revenue in
2005 to $9.3 Billion in 2010. The billion dollars they protected
from the split went from 20% of the total to 10.75%, roughly half
as much as a percent of total revenue. What the owners need to
do is not protect a revenue number, but protect a percentage of
revenue so that the protected money (not subject to the 64-36
split in favor of the players) goes up as revenues, and hence,
expenses go up. The players, who used to complain that Gene
Upshaw was a puppet for the league, had a great deal and now it
has to go away. At least they start the new deal with twice as
much money as they did last time.
That, my friends, is what we are fighting about… in the humble (or
sometimes not so humble) opinion of Joe Tarell and AFATT.
Because AFATT Says So…
NFL Week Ten Thoughts - updated
by Joe Tarell January 2, 2012
Painting with a scatter gun… and splattering the officials with it
How is it possible that we still have part time employees refereeing the most watched sports league in the world? The savings of money
can’t be the only reason. It has always made me wonder how much better the league would be if the one team in stripes that has an
equal impact every week on who wins or loses worked as hard to prepare as the other two teams on the field.
I am not sure that most people realize that these guys are only paid $25,000 to $70,000 per season. They get travel expenses on top
of that, but this is not much money for a $9 Billion league. The officials will travel in the day before the game. They have a meeting to
review the teams and go over what happened the week before. They watch tape, get a report on their work and generally do less than
a day of work to prepare. They referee the game and then fly home to go to their full time job on Monday. With all that in mind, they
really do a pretty good job. How much better could they be?
It is such a travesty when you consider what the possibilities would be if they trained like the athletes they are asked to govern.
Imagine if they had a year-round training program. They could get into tip top shape so that lawyer turned part-time official, Ed Hochuli
wouldn’t be the only ripped official. No one can convince me that it is not physically challenging to keep up with NFL players. The mind
gets weak when the body gets fatigued and mistakes are made. These guys need to be cardio machines. The back judges run with
receivers all day long. Again, I am sure they work out and they have testing they do for physical fitness, but not nearly as much as they
could if they were full time employees.
The other thing they could do is study tape, all week during the season and throughout the offseason. They would know every players'
tendencies and every team’s as well. They would be prepared for the guy who likes to throw a jab when coming out of his cuts like
Michael Irvin. They would know which cornerbacks like to tug a jersey for a split second like Darrelle Revis. They would know to look
near the mid section for those hands that hold up a receiver just enough to keep pace. If the official were studying the tape and could
anticipate plays based on alignments and substitution packages do you think they could be in better position to make a call? Yeah, me
too!
Now let’s talk about Rick Tarell’s favorite subject – holding! I played offensive line and by the time I was a senior in high school I held
on every single play, at least when I wasn’t cutting someone. If the officials were studying tape, they would know what to watch for and
who to watch for and against whom. I know what you are thinking; there would be a ton more penalties, right? Not likely, because the
players would learn what the officials call and adjust. They do it all the time now when subtle changes are announced each year.
To make sure everyone was better prepared, how good would it be during OTA’s to always have officials present. All throughout
training camp the officials could rotate between teams and watch practice so they became familiar with the players and the teams. The
teams would also be able to use them during the seven-on-seven drills and scrimmages to make sure that the players knew what
techniques were going to cause them trouble in the game. Right now this is done very sparingly. Remember the officials have another
full time job.
After watching the games on week 17, it appears even more so that we need full time employees officiating the game of NFL football. If
the NFLPA had a real concern about safety and fairness, they would have made this a priority, but they went for the money instead.
Because AFATT Says so…
by Joe Tarell January 2, 2012
Painting with a scatter gun… and splattering the officials with it
How is it possible that we still have part time employees refereeing the most watched sports league in the world? The savings of money
can’t be the only reason. It has always made me wonder how much better the league would be if the one team in stripes that has an
equal impact every week on who wins or loses worked as hard to prepare as the other two teams on the field.
I am not sure that most people realize that these guys are only paid $25,000 to $70,000 per season. They get travel expenses on top
of that, but this is not much money for a $9 Billion league. The officials will travel in the day before the game. They have a meeting to
review the teams and go over what happened the week before. They watch tape, get a report on their work and generally do less than
a day of work to prepare. They referee the game and then fly home to go to their full time job on Monday. With all that in mind, they
really do a pretty good job. How much better could they be?
It is such a travesty when you consider what the possibilities would be if they trained like the athletes they are asked to govern.
Imagine if they had a year-round training program. They could get into tip top shape so that lawyer turned part-time official, Ed Hochuli
wouldn’t be the only ripped official. No one can convince me that it is not physically challenging to keep up with NFL players. The mind
gets weak when the body gets fatigued and mistakes are made. These guys need to be cardio machines. The back judges run with
receivers all day long. Again, I am sure they work out and they have testing they do for physical fitness, but not nearly as much as they
could if they were full time employees.
The other thing they could do is study tape, all week during the season and throughout the offseason. They would know every players'
tendencies and every team’s as well. They would be prepared for the guy who likes to throw a jab when coming out of his cuts like
Michael Irvin. They would know which cornerbacks like to tug a jersey for a split second like Darrelle Revis. They would know to look
near the mid section for those hands that hold up a receiver just enough to keep pace. If the official were studying the tape and could
anticipate plays based on alignments and substitution packages do you think they could be in better position to make a call? Yeah, me
too!
Now let’s talk about Rick Tarell’s favorite subject – holding! I played offensive line and by the time I was a senior in high school I held
on every single play, at least when I wasn’t cutting someone. If the officials were studying tape, they would know what to watch for and
who to watch for and against whom. I know what you are thinking; there would be a ton more penalties, right? Not likely, because the
players would learn what the officials call and adjust. They do it all the time now when subtle changes are announced each year.
To make sure everyone was better prepared, how good would it be during OTA’s to always have officials present. All throughout
training camp the officials could rotate between teams and watch practice so they became familiar with the players and the teams. The
teams would also be able to use them during the seven-on-seven drills and scrimmages to make sure that the players knew what
techniques were going to cause them trouble in the game. Right now this is done very sparingly. Remember the officials have another
full time job.
After watching the games on week 17, it appears even more so that we need full time employees officiating the game of NFL football. If
the NFLPA had a real concern about safety and fairness, they would have made this a priority, but they went for the money instead.
Because AFATT Says so…
2012 NFL Draft Season is Officially Open
This offseason will be even better than most in
the NFL because of the new rookie salary cap
that does not punish those that draft high in the
first round. If quarterbacks are no longer as big
a risk we will see even more action on trades and
more teams willing to risk a pick on a QB. The
Colts are the only team in the five that should
look for a QB. The other four teams have a
starter less than three years in the league. In the
top 20, the Redskins, Dolphins, Bills and
Seahawks are the only teams that do not meet
that standard or possess a Pro Bowl QB. One
could argue that the Browns, Jaguars, Chiefs,
Cardinals and Jets may also want to look for a
young QB.
With a low risk on these contracts, why not draft
another one if you are Cleveland, Tampa or even
St. Louis. Cam Newton got $22 Million
guaranteed last year as the number one pick.
This factor will make mocking the draft harder
than it has ever been. The Colts will draft
Andrew Luck. Now the fun starts, teams that
have a need and the picks available to move up
will begin jockeying for Robert Griffin. The Rams
have Bradford, need lineman and receivers so a
package would look good to them. Vikings can
use the same help and took Ponder last year so
those two picks could go to the highest bidder.
Be aware that the Raiders pick belongs to the
Bengals and the Browns also have Atlanta's pick.
This offseason will be even better than most in
the NFL because of the new rookie salary cap
that does not punish those that draft high in the
first round. If quarterbacks are no longer as big
a risk we will see even more action on trades and
more teams willing to risk a pick on a QB. The
Colts are the only team in the five that should
look for a QB. The other four teams have a
starter less than three years in the league. In the
top 20, the Redskins, Dolphins, Bills and
Seahawks are the only teams that do not meet
that standard or possess a Pro Bowl QB. One
could argue that the Browns, Jaguars, Chiefs,
Cardinals and Jets may also want to look for a
young QB.
With a low risk on these contracts, why not draft
another one if you are Cleveland, Tampa or even
St. Louis. Cam Newton got $22 Million
guaranteed last year as the number one pick.
This factor will make mocking the draft harder
than it has ever been. The Colts will draft
Andrew Luck. Now the fun starts, teams that
have a need and the picks available to move up
will begin jockeying for Robert Griffin. The Rams
have Bradford, need lineman and receivers so a
package would look good to them. Vikings can
use the same help and took Ponder last year so
those two picks could go to the highest bidder.
Be aware that the Raiders pick belongs to the
Bengals and the Browns also have Atlanta's pick.
| Time to Mock the 2012 NFL Draft |
2012 NFL Draft
Let the Mocks Begin
Expecting trades, why not let the Redskins
make the biggest splash and get the 2011
Heisman Trophy winner. Quarterbacks will
be at a premium and right now Luck and
Griffin are the two highest rated. The
early rankings have Jones and Tannehill
next but that could change. The big board
is very fluid at this time of year since the
deadline for early-entry commitments is
still more than a week away. Griffin, Luck
and Jones could all decide to stay in
school and that would really throw a curve
ball to the mockers.
Based on needs and early player rankings
this is a rough first draft, but why wait.
January means playoffs for some and
player evaluation for others. This year,
Free Agency comes before the Draft so
that will make these early Mocks seem like
crazy talk by the time April gets here. Let
the conversations begin!
Because AFATT Says So...
Let the Mocks Begin
Expecting trades, why not let the Redskins
make the biggest splash and get the 2011
Heisman Trophy winner. Quarterbacks will
be at a premium and right now Luck and
Griffin are the two highest rated. The
early rankings have Jones and Tannehill
next but that could change. The big board
is very fluid at this time of year since the
deadline for early-entry commitments is
still more than a week away. Griffin, Luck
and Jones could all decide to stay in
school and that would really throw a curve
ball to the mockers.
Based on needs and early player rankings
this is a rough first draft, but why wait.
January means playoffs for some and
player evaluation for others. This year,
Free Agency comes before the Draft so
that will make these early Mocks seem like
crazy talk by the time April gets here. Let
the conversations begin!
Because AFATT Says So...