NFL Draft Countdown

The draft is next weekend. I'm sure anyone who has flipped through ESPN or turned on sports talk radio knows this. There is a ridiculous amount of media coverage on the NFL draft. We've got Mel Kiper here, who lays out his big board, predicting who will go where. It's nice to imagine what college player your local NFL team will be getting, but I am literally sick of all the coverage. It's like the draft has already happened with all the predictions that are out there. There are so many mock drafts that it seems like the real draft may never come, not soon enough anyway. And when it does come, what a tedious process. I sit there for hours just waiting for the Bengals to pick. I watch them pick some guy who will probably be a bust, then wait another few hours for their next pick. The whole thing is so upsetting to me. If Matt Stafford goes first, who is going to be surprised. The whole thing is so planned out, it's not even funny. The teams talk to the guys in advance, trying to work out contracts before the draft even happens. A lot of this is because of hold outs and agents running up huge contract demands. Things need to change. A rookie max needs to be put in, so teams can draft a guy without worrying about a hold out. These guys from college need to stop being so greedy too, like Eli Manning, who a few years back refused to play with the Chargers before they ever drafted him. It's just a long, ugly process, which I will no doubt watch.