The snowball effects of consistently whiffing in the NFL Draft

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Every team is going to have its bad draft moments. Some teams, however, whiff again and again and again, ultimately missing out on a generation of talent. Robert Mays and ESPN's Bill Barnwell examine what happens to teams when they consistently miss in the draft on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Follow Robert on Twitter: @robertmays Follow Bill on Twitter: @billbarnwell Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp. Visit betterhelp.com/mays to get 10% off your first month 3:54 The Raiders' draft struggles 17:39 The Titans' draft struggles 32:29 The Cardinals' draft struggles 48:44 Positional black holes 63:12 Smart tactics to mitigate missing in the draft Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Athletic Football Show.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
0:17.5	I'm Robert Mays, joining me today.
0:20.1	It's our old friend Bill Barnwell.
0:21.4	Barmoha, how are you doing, man?
0:23.2	Let me tell you, Mays, the opportunity with our topic today to realize number one, how
0:29.7	old I am, how infrequently I had thought about some of the players we're going to discuss
0:36.5	today.
0:37.9	And then realizing, oh, those are people I covered when I was working with you, which I think
0:43.1	is in my head not that long ago, but is that long ago?
0:47.1	Very troubling for me to find out how long I've been covering the NFL in talking about
0:52.6	some of these players we're going to talk about today.
0:54.7	I was thinking about it last night.
0:56.0	I was like, I moved back from LA.
0:57.6	It wasn't that long ago.
0:58.9	And then it was eight years ago.
1:00.6	It was eight years ago.
1:02.2	It was 2015 when I moved back to Chicago.
1:04.6	So what we're going to dig into today, you and I were kicking around a couple different
1:07.7	ideas about what draft misses look like.
1:11.9	You know, we, I think, all collectively understand that we live in a world where the draft is a
1:17.2	crap shoot.
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