Well, let me tell you, this NFL mock thing, it’s a big deal, ain’t it? I heard folks talking ’bout it, and it sounds like a whole heap of guessin’ to me. This whole NFL mock draft thing, it’s like tryin’ to guess how many beans are in a jar, only way more complicated.
They got these fellas, they call ’em analysts, they sit there and try to figure out which football player is gonna go where. It’s all about the NFL draft, you see. Teams pickin’ players, like pickin’ the best hog at the county fair. But this mock draft, it’s just a guess before the real pickin’ happens.
Now, I heard some folks say, “Oh, this fella’s mock draft is the best.” And others say, “Nah, that one’s better.” It’s like arguin’ over whose apple pie is tastier. They got all these names, like Kiper and McShay. Sounds like a bunch of gibberish to me, but these folks, they make a big fuss over it. It’s like they’re some big shots, but really they’re just pickin’ names out of a hat, seems like.
- These fellas try to guess who’s gonna get picked.
- They make these lists, call ’em mock drafts.
- Folks argue about whose list is the best one.
- It all comes down to the big NFL draft day.
I heard one time, this one fella, they said he was the best at this mock draft thing. He had some fancy name, Brendan somethin’ or other. They said he was the most accurate, like he could see the future or somethin’. But even he ain’t right all the time, no sir. Nobody is. It’s like tryin’ to predict the weather, you just can’t do it perfectly.
And then they got this thing called “accuracy scores.” It’s like keepin’ score at a baseball game, only instead of runs, they’re countin’ how many guesses these fellas got right. They say this website or that website has the best scores. But it all seems like a lot of numbers to me. Numbers don’t mean much when you’re talkin’ about somethin’ as unpredictable as this NFL draft business. It’s like comparing apples and oranges, if you ask me. They can throw all them numbers around, but it still ain’t gonna tell you who’s pickin’ who for sure.
They say this mock draft stuff starts up real early, way before the actual draft. It’s like plantin’ your seeds in the winter and hopin’ they’ll sprout come spring. Just a whole lot of waitin’ and hopin’. They call it “peak NFL mock draft season”. Peak season for guessin’, I reckon. It’s all just a big game, like checkers, but a lot more people watchin’. They got websites and all kinds of things dedicated to this, and folks just eat it up like it’s candy.
I heard ’em say there was this one year, 2014, I think it was, and this Daniel Jeremiah fella, he had the best mock draft. Then there was another one, Matt Miller, he was close behind. But you know what? Next year, it could be someone completely different. It’s all just a toss-up, like flippin’ a coin. You never know which way it’s gonna land.
They spend a lot of time on this, these folks do. They say they got some special way of figurin’ out who’s accurate and who ain’t. Objective, they call it. Sounds like a fancy word for “fair.” But I don’t know, seems like a lot of work just to figure out who’s the best guesser. Like spendin’ all day countin’ chickens before they hatch. They put so much effort into it, it’s like they think it’s the most important thing in the world.
One thing I heard, and this one made me chuckle, they said the worst mock drafts didn’t have this one player, Will Levis. See, even when they’re wrong, they’re still talkin’ about it. Just goes to show, it’s all just a big guessing game. And sometimes, the guesses are way off, like throwin’ a dart with your eyes closed. You might hit the board, but you ain’t gonna hit the bullseye, not every time.
They talk about first-round picks and all that. That’s like the cream of the crop, I reckon. The best of the best. These Kiper and McShay fellas, they try to guess who those first-round picks will be. But it’s all just speculation, like sayin’ it’s gonna rain tomorrow ’cause your knee hurts. Might be right, might be wrong. It all comes down to this NFL mock draft, see? Tryin’ to know things they just can’t know.
They’ll find out soon enough, though. When the real draft happens, then they’ll see how close these mock drafts were. They say 2018 was a wild one. Probably means a lot of folks guessed wrong that year. But that’s just the way it goes. Like I said before, this NFL mock draft thing, it’s just a whole lot of guessin’, ain’t it? It’s all just a big show, if you ask me. Lots of folks talkin’, but not a lot of folks knowin’.
