My Big Beef with Big Boards
I have a big beef with how Big boards are created, used, and interpreted. I take you through what's wrong with them, but also provide insight in how to correctly use them.
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Every year that I cover the draft I realize something flawed in the coverage that provides the narratives for fans to have conversations about prospects. There’s nothing going to change about how the NFL media covers the draft, after all it leads to ratings and the general fan just wants to slurp their big gulps. In general, fans are just the adults in Wall-E when it comes to NFL coverage as whole. They want the empty calories and to be spoon fed basic information that tells them “X is good, or X is bad” and move on with their day.
I get it, I truly do, but that isn’t what I set out to do here. Sure, I just did 10 mock drafts in yesterday’s article, but it was more to the point to show how good drafts can still be had by the Titans in various different scenarios. It was fun andserves a purpose. This year I have a big beef with big boards and the discourse/narratives that surround them.
This won’t all be “old man screams” at clouds or anything. I am also not trying to change the way draft coverage is done on a national level, but I am trying to influence, no matter how small it may be, change at a local/fan level. That is where you, the reader, come in. We have to make sure, as a Stacking The Inbox society, that when we see something incorrectly worded or phrase, we politely (I fail at this at times) correct or inquire how they arrived at their conclusion, or just ignore it and don’t share it. Often times you have to inform fans or others. It’s a lot of responsibility, but if everyone pitched in, we could have smarter discourse and honest conversations. Okay, that’s likely never going to happen in 2024 and beyond, but it is nice to have lofty dreams and aspirations.
Enough about changing the world, let’s have a big talk about big boards.
