Insider Information?

[bcw]

How much of the rumors floating around do you think is actual insider information, and how much is pure speculation?

I'm sure there isn't anyone calling up a reporter and telling them our favorite players in this draft from #1-#12 are players x, y, and z but someone obviously let a clue out last year before the Whitner pick. For that draft guy to predict we take Whitner last year at #8 is too much to be a coincidence.

Every strange mock that I see lately I'm asking myself "does this guy really have insider information here? Maybe we are really going to Harris or Beason."

[Bosco]

The insider...is this the Cab driver that Chris Breman "talks" to each year ? HA HA

[odieman]

Mike Mayock is the guy who had us taking Whitner last year....his latest mock has us taking Leon Hall.

[Airborne LT]

Mike Mayock is the guy who had us taking Whitner last year....his latest mock has us taking Leon Hall.

I prefer to take what I call the "drunken dart throw" approach. According to that our pick will be


(tosses one dart)


(dart breaks window and hits neighbor's cat)


(tosses 2nd dart)


Mason Crosby, K, Colorado.


And there you have it....insider information far more valuable than anything Kiper says.

[CoachC.]

Guys who post mocks for sites such as ESPN, CBS Sportsline, NFL.com, and several of the bigger newspapers and/or publications at least talk to people within organizations. Not only about their picks, but about others, as well. They have to. With everyone and their mom now becoming a "mock drafter," their employers don't want to look foolish through them.

Still, there has to be a fair amount of guessing that goes on with them, because they are always going to get smoke screens and lies they have to sift through.

Almost all of the mocks on message boards or from hometown newspapers and/or websites are simply people looking at those other mocks, then adding all of that info to their own educated guesses. Very rarely will those "mockers" have any inside info through the teams themselves.

[jaymitch84]

It's possible that Mayock is the one that figured out last year that the Bills had placed a high premium on safeties, and since Huff was gone, decided the Bills should put the next best S in the draft on their team in the mock...much of the same way Mel Kiper put David Harris on the Bills because Patrick Willis is off his board.

[Range Roamer]

I listened to most of those experts last night on NFL network and everyone of them threw their hands up as to predicting this years draft. They had their mocks but none of them were positive about any prediction.

[pabstman]

Guys who post mocks for sites such as ESPN, CBS Sportsline, NFL.com, and several of the bigger newspapers and/or publications at least talk to people within organizations. Not only about their picks, but about others, as well. They have to. With everyone and their mom now becoming a "mock drafter," their employers don't want to look foolish through them.

Still, there has to be a fair amount of guessing that goes on with them, because they are always going to get smoke screens and lies they have to sift through.

Almost all of the mocks on message boards or from hometown newspapers and/or websites are simply people looking at those other mocks, then adding all of that info to their own educated guesses. Very rarely will those "mockers" have any inside info through the teams themselves.


Your right about people atleast talking to people within and organization, but how foolish did all of those insiders look last year with the first pick of the draft? NFL teams have become a little parinod with all of the media scruitny they are under. Wouldn't it be funny if they guys in NY at the draft covered there mouths while talking on the phone with their front office.
Teams use guys from those major outlets to throw a lot of teams off, or atleast try too.