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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The NFL Daft

No typo. Daft it is. Could be the dumbest day in sports. Tell me again which can't miss lineman has the best 40 time, which wide receiver has the greatest sleeve length and how so-and-so's stock dropped because he doesnt throw a tight enough spiral. No "event'' has more "experts'' spouting so much junk as if it's gospel. They tell you everything about a player except if he can play football.

The charter members of the Get A Life movement are seated in Radio City in New York on Daft Day. I mean, don't you have some weeds to pull or garbage to take out?

I must be missing something vital in my DNA, but I truly don't get the fascination with who the Bills will pick in the 4th round or if the Rams will trade up in Round 1. "War'' rooms, "on the clock'', M. Kiper's steel-belted radial hair. Why?

Give the NFL this: It understands perfectly its audience, which continues to grow. The league moves seamlessly from reg. season to postseason, to Super Bowl to Combine (don't get me started on that silliness) to Daft to mini-camp to preseason... the circle is unbroken. Just wake me in September.


10 Comments:

at 10:07 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

PLease turn in your "I am a Male" card at the next meeting.

It's overhyped for sure but it is always interesting to see who the Bengals get. I too am not enamored with the numbers, especially if they don't tell you Akila Smith shouldn't be anywhere near a Pro huddle. Funniest was when they excluded Chris Spieldman because his 40 time was slow. If your linebacker is running 40 yards you have problems.

But is there better Talk radio than
the druggist? That guy knows his stuff. You can't stump him.

 
at 10:54 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul, I don't agree with you often, but I couldn't agree more on this one. The NFL has turned a 20 day season into a year round ESPN affair.

 
at 6:06 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Once again, I agree. The "daft", if you will, is talked about all through both the college and NFL seasons. Isn't there an actual football game being played? It's ridiculous to speculate who the top quarterback (much less lineman) in college is, or if he will leave school early to enter the daft. Then, we spend weeks upon weeks after the Super Bowl contemplating just who may be dafted in what round by what team, and what kind of "impact" this player will have. We also have a tendency to spend a while trying to decide just what sedative to give MK this year. I personally think he uses his hair as a helmet.

p.s. -- When was the last time someone got this fired up about the MLB Daft?

 
at 7:17 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul:
Obviously you have never played fantasy football. Just call me Daffy but I like draft day, and mock drafts. You get to evaluate teams and compare players. You get to think like a general manager without having to lose your job because you picked Aliki Smith as the next Joe Montana. You don't have to put up any of your money to pay 1st round busts. You just pick em - and latter when they don't pan out you just point to poor coaching as to why they spent all of their career on the bench or in the training room. And every year you just know you are going to get it right this time.

 
at 7:27 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing what I have thought for years. Just Mel Kiper's face is enough to get me to change the station. Draft day is great to play golf, fish or as Sam Wyche once said "play a game of tennis". My draft experience is confined to reading it in the Sunday and Monday Enquiere.

 
at 9:00 PM Blogger Dustin Dow said...

I can't remember the last time I watched the draft. But with as much hype as it gets, I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one. Thanks for making me feel normal.

 
at 7:01 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

When is the last time you saw someone get fired up about baseball at all?
That is because baseball is a dead, boring sport.

 
at 3:05 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, baseball's boring, but watching giant men in $3,000 flashy suits sit in a room and drink tiny water bottles, while a bunch of talking heads spew noise for 9 hours on a Saturday is exciting.

I love football, but the hype surrounding it has become too much. I'm with it for game day, the rest is annoying.

 
at 1:41 PM Blogger kelleyfromblueash said...

Please have my son be one of your draft experts. Kelley in blue ash

 
at 1:42 PM Blogger kelleyfromblueash said...

My son would love to be a draftnik.

 
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