Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Jerry Gardner from the Facebook group asks, Since the NFL Draft was in your home state of Wisconsin, did you get to go? Maybe a good topic for a future episode would be the history of the NFL draft.

I had a bunch of people basically ask the same question about the draft, so I’m going to try to lump them all together and answer them here.

I have no idea how to evaluate a draft before anyone has actually played a down. I hoped that the Packers would draft a wide receiver and they did in the first round, but beyond that we’ll have to wait and see.

I think there is far too much time and energy put into analyzing the draft. The majority of draft picks never amount to much, and some are outright horrible.

The Packers probably had the worst draft pick in NFL history when they selected Tony Mandrich second in the 1989 draft.

The fact that Mandrich was a total bust wasn’t the bad part so much as the fact that the Packers passed up Barry Sanders, Dion Sanders, and Derrek Thomas, all of whom were Hall of Fame players, to get him.

Green Bay hosted the draft this year because the town is too small to host anything else. While a Super Bowl at Lambeau Field would be amazing, it’s too cold for the NFL ever to do it, and more importantly, there aren’t enough hotel rooms in the community to host everyone.

I, and everyone I know, avoided Green Bay while the draft was being held because it was so busy.