Chip Kelly dislikes the draft...

http://oregon.247sports.com/Bolt/Chip-K ... L-29892932

He thinks it puts to much pressure on guys, and in some ways he might be right.

Some very astute observations. But whatcha gonna do? Can't not have a draft.

Kinda reminds me of a Churchill quote: "...democ­racy is the worst form of Gov­ern­ment except for all those other forms that have been tried..."

I think that is pretty whiny of Chip.

Keeping a job in the NFL is more pressure than being drafted. Truth is, first rounders can fail on a couple of football teams, and people will still take a chance on them. See: Aaron Curry. So in that respect, being a first rounder is a lot less pressure.

It's not the draft's fault. It's our collective and often ridiculous expectations creating the pressure, and it's our collective ignorance about the human psyche that allows us to put on that pressure even when its counter-productive to something we want. Even we had people who wanted Carroll on the hot-seat until our run in the latter half of 2012 was underway. We just had the good fortune that people of this opinion were too few to cultivate the potential of such an unnecessary and unwarranted distraction.

Chip also got mocked a bit for reaching on players, and you can hear his disdain for that part of the process in those quotes too. Success in drafting is the bast revenge, Chip. Just ask Pete.

BlueTalon":2fnno0f9 said:

Some very astute observations. But whatcha gonna do? Can't not have a draft.

Kinda reminds me of a Churchill quote: "...democ­racy is the worst form of Gov­ern­ment except for all those other forms that have been tried..."

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Of course you can, it seems to work alright for non-American sports.

How about you eliminate the rookie cap, you declare for the "draft" but actually then it's just a free-for-all. If some goons want to overpay for the top 5 rookies in the class then go ahead, on the other hand a team that plays it wisely no longer has to "trade down" to get more picks and can pick up a lot of cheap players. For every team like the Falcons and Vikings that would happily trade every pick below the second round to get 3 first round picks, there's a team like Seattle that would happily pick 20 guys in the 4-5th round if they could at the same financial outlay.

The difference between the NFL and European soccer teams for example is that no team is really richer than any other due to the salary cap (yes, we have the richest owner and other teams have bigger turnovers, but there's no system where one team can simply outbid another due to the money they have because it would cripple the rest of the team), so there's no chance that a team can simply overpay the top rookie every year and build a fantastic team, because the cap space isn't there to do so.

Most importantly there'd no prize for coming last in the NFL.

Of course, that wouldn't solve the problem that Kelly is referring to, but the NFL could easily survive without the draft