Piece by: Will Goddard
The First Round of the Draft was last night and it was everything NFL fans wanted and needed. The awkward silences between between analysts over FaceTime, Rodger Goodell looking like an impotent Insurance salesman, and CeeDee Lamb refusing to be caught slippin’.
This draft, unlike the previous ones, was more intimate because you were looking into these people’s homes. You got to see into their lives and how ridiculous some of these coaches’ homes are. I was starting to look forward to the backgrounds more than I was the actual pick. These were my top five backgrounds from round one:
Jerry Jones had the biggest flex of the night while his backdrop was his 250-million-dollar yacht. This yacht looks the inside of the U.S.S Enterprise
Kliff Kingsburry’s life is a GQ magazine. Every Instagram model dm’d Kliff right after ESPN showed the inside of his house.
Bill Bellichick’s house is exactly what I would expect: Retired lighthouse operator.
I honestly expected Andy Reid to be in a Rib City that he rented out for the draft.
Mike Vrabel having an absolute honker of a dip in then spitting it out as soon as he gets on camera while being surrounded by his two sons and daughter. One son had a Titans onesie on, and the other son had a mullet that belongs in a museum.
When it comes to actual football, this draft had a bit of a slow start. For the first ten picks there weren’t any trades, and proving to be almost a carbon copy of Mel Kiper’s big board. Then as the draft unfolded we saw a couple of trades take place.
The Bucs trading up to get their man on the O-line in Tristan Wirfs. The 49ers trading up to get another receiver in Brandon Aiyuk. There was one pick that stood out to me and the rest of the football world, though. The Packers traded with the Miami Dolphins to get the 26th pick and with that, they selected, Jordan Love, QB, Utah State.
This is the pick that set the twitter world on fire, and pissed off the Green Bay fan boys to no end. Being a Bears fan, I can look at this scenario with no bias and honestly say, this is a shitty pick. It is a shitty pick because you are now saying to Aaron Rodgers that we are playing for the future even though you got us within 60 minutes of the Super Bowl last year, but we aren’t playing to win now.
The Packers claim they are drafting to win now. But this pick says the opposite. It isn’t like Philip Rivers situation. You go 7-9 or 8-8 and you miss out on the playoffs. No, this Green Bay Packers team somehow won 13 games last year and weaseled their way into the NFC Championship. I know Aaron Rodgers is obviously getting older, and he had a down year last year. I’ll give you that. But he is also a hall of famer who only had a banged up Devante Adams to throw the ball to.
Also, Aaron Rodgers is not the reason why you got literally ran out of the building in NFC title game. As I finished typing that sentence, Raheem Mostert ran for another touchdown. The Packers desperately needed a linebacker or a receiver.
If I was Aaron Rodgers, and I just saw Tampa Bay move heaven and earth to get Brady a tackle and the team that beat him in the NFC Championship get a talented, young wide out. This will piss Aaron Rodger off though. The Packers obviously knew that, and maybe that’s their objective. Maybe they want to just light a fire under the old man’s ass and have him play with an even bigger chip on his shoulder.
The other thing about this pick that does not make sense is that there is no way Rodgers is going to be a Mr. Miyagi for Jordan Love. Aaron does not have that personality to take a rookie QB under his wing. The last point is that people are comparing this pick to the Packers getting Aaron Rodgers back in 05. Since Rodgers is a year older than Favre was when Rodgers got drafted, pundits, Twitter, and message boards are saying this isn’t just a coincidence. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but it is. Look for big things to come out of Aaron Rodgers this year, and that’s a Bears fan saying that.