Current NFL Draft format

I prefer the new format because it seems like the teams can make better decisions in the later rounds and overall I prefer my team to have a successful draft more than the condensed draft

But if they went back I wouldn’t care. It was certainly more fun the old way.

I prefer the old format

New format

1. Primetime detailed coverage/analysis/insight first two days in a row, and the 3rd day almost all day like the old format. Best of both worlds.

2. Day 2 and Day 3 are more exciting now because you basically have 24 hours to look over who is left and you get to pick out your gems/steals/wishlist, just like you do on Day 1, wthout everything becoming a blur like the old format did.

I prefer more than round 1 in day 1. Its spectacle now. NFL makes money off of it. I also wish it wasn't so long after the combine.

I miss the old format.

I’d watch the whole thing on Saturday and skip Sunday.

Now I just watch the first night and skip the rest of it.

I prefer it stretched out because you get to look into the players more.

After the first round you basically reset and see if anyone "fell" out of the first and discuss who we're likely to take in the second or third.

And then you can chill out Saturday watching the later rounds but not have it take up your entire Sunday like it did when it was rounds 3-7.

Plus I like that it finishes on a Saturday. It gives me an extra day to look into who we're getting and what the other teams in our division did.

Before when it lasted ALL DAY Sunday you really stopped caring about those late round picks and then had work the next day and usually didn't really look into much until the following weekend if you still cared enough.

I know they did it to make more money, but I feel it works better for people who are "diehards" about the draft and really want to see who we're getting and who other teams got.

I can see how people who are more casual about it preferred the old way because they could just watch rounds 1 and 2 Saturday and then maybe check now and then Sunday.

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I feel it works better for people who are "diehards"

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Exactly.

You can tell by some of the comments in this thread which ones are just casual "draft" fans who routinely skip the 2nd half of the draft and/or use the 1st day primarily for the socializing.

Nothing wrong with that, but if you aren't a diehard draftnik, you really have no business commenting on what's the better format for what's essentially the Super Bowl for diehard draftniks.

I always have friends over for the first two nights and we have Super Bowl-ish grub & brews both nights, but the draft is the focus for all, not just background noise underneath hunting or fishing stories. We have our own War Room posters with removable names, categorized by position, usually set to Mayock or Kiper's Big Board, depending on what channel we will watch. We pull off the names and put them on the Round/Pick/Team poster. We have laptops ready to pull up more extensive highlights of the Saints selections. We spend time looking at who's left, in between Saints picks, all the while cracking some cold ones, eating well, and having a few laughs, cheers and groans. The 3rd day we are usually by ourselves, but texting each other who the hell was that 7th round small school prospect with the torn ACL we just drafted.

Why wouldn’t you want to BBQ two days in a row? Grab some cigars, put something on the grill, turn on the draft, and pour a sip or 5.

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I know they did it to make more money, but I feel it works better for people who are "diehards" about the draft and really want to see who we're getting and who other teams got.

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i disagree fully

i was a super diehard drafink and this format change literally killed my interest in the draft

this change was made to sell the draft to normies. look at the posts in this thread talking about being able to catch up and keep up. that scaled down pace was created for them, not the people who really followed the pre-draft process and knew most of that shite anyway