SabanHater
***** in the House!
Here's a link on Parcells possibly passes on the 1st pick, meaning letting the clock run out...... interesting read. enjoy. I apologize if this was already posted.
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=389615
So if Parcells is willing to ignore the rules that are on the books, he'd surely be willing to cast aside an unwritten one: Thou shalt not intentionally fail to exercise a draft pick.
I mentioned the possibility that Parcells would pass on the pick during an appearance on a South Florida radio station recently, and the host later told me that the mere possibility of Parcells holding his card beyond the allotted 10 minutes (down from 15 in past years) sparked a spirited debate. Surely, if Parcells ultimately would choose not to choose, there would be a firestorm.
But it would be a legitimate maneuver. And it would be the best way, in our view, to spawn meaningful changes to a player-selection system aimed at helping the league's worst team get better, but, as a practical matter, a system that only compounds a floundering franchise's fate by forcing it to dump $35 million of guaranteed money into the pockets of the next David Carr, Ryan Leaf or Charles Rogers.
The controversy and curiosity arising from a team intentionally passing on its pick would alert more and more people to the problem. Hopefully, it would prompt the players to focus on the fact that kids who never have taken a snap in the NFL are getting obscene windfalls, and on the reality that the money instead could be devoted to the guys who have given years of sweat, blood and cartilage to the game. In turn, the players then would tell their union to do something about the situation.
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=389615
So if Parcells is willing to ignore the rules that are on the books, he'd surely be willing to cast aside an unwritten one: Thou shalt not intentionally fail to exercise a draft pick.
I mentioned the possibility that Parcells would pass on the pick during an appearance on a South Florida radio station recently, and the host later told me that the mere possibility of Parcells holding his card beyond the allotted 10 minutes (down from 15 in past years) sparked a spirited debate. Surely, if Parcells ultimately would choose not to choose, there would be a firestorm.
But it would be a legitimate maneuver. And it would be the best way, in our view, to spawn meaningful changes to a player-selection system aimed at helping the league's worst team get better, but, as a practical matter, a system that only compounds a floundering franchise's fate by forcing it to dump $35 million of guaranteed money into the pockets of the next David Carr, Ryan Leaf or Charles Rogers.
The controversy and curiosity arising from a team intentionally passing on its pick would alert more and more people to the problem. Hopefully, it would prompt the players to focus on the fact that kids who never have taken a snap in the NFL are getting obscene windfalls, and on the reality that the money instead could be devoted to the guys who have given years of sweat, blood and cartilage to the game. In turn, the players then would tell their union to do something about the situation.
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