Steelers' draft strategy

Maybe not?

This is the updated trade value chart that SUPPOSEDLY is prevalent around the league: https://overthecap.com/draft-trade-value-chart

Going from 21 to 10 theoretically could be done for pick 21 in the first and pick 35 in the fourth round.

 

I suspect that is a matter of experience. I worked in journalisms, so I am particularly sensitive to issues of integrity. Accepting money to hype up a player, even if he already thought highly of that player, would severely compromise his integrity.

 

I don't think they just sit their and wait, but yes, they deal in leaked information. There is nothing wrong with that as long as they are honestly reporting what they have been told. Altering what they say or how much they stress it because they are getting paid by one of those sources, however, is a different matter entirely.

 

You are holding out expectations that any of these guys have journalistic ethics or even training. The last couple of guys that did either died or got pushed out by the current generation. These guys can't even spell journalism.

John Clayton probably acted like you are envisioning. And he got almost totally sidelined by the end of his time with ESPN because he wasn't loud enough or first enough eventually leading to his dismissal at ESPN.

NFL coverage is not journalism. It is entertainment. No one is being paid the budget breaking sums of money they are getting to be an honest information broker...just be loud, have a "take", and, most of all, do it all before the other guy.

 

I didn't need journalistic training to know that taking money to push a certain player is an issue.

 

And that’s you.

While there’s no evidence that anyone is taking straight cash to say something on TV, there’s ample evidence to demonstrate these guys are carrying water for agents and teams.

Your ethics and professional integrity can not be assigned to the NFL media. None of these guys are journalists. None of them are professional writers. Their former athletes and want to be athletes that only care about being first to post.

It’s all versions of the truth wrapped in lies and misinformation.

 

It's a deep WR class and they are looking for a WR3. Why use a 1st or 2nd pick for him? Too many other holes to fill. Safety, DL, OT/OG, ILB.

 

I am also against the WR early idea. Not because those guys are not talented. They are. Some seemingly incredibly so.

But Rodgers ain't gonna vibe with a rookie WR. It has literally never happened. His entire career. Nelson, Cobb, and Adams all had low catch numbers their first season or two. Then took off.

You can find someone to eat 40 targets outside of the first round.

Reading some good things about the dude from Georgia State(?) One place made the claim it was Pickens without the knucklehead factor. Or the younger brother from NDSU.

 

I totally forgot about John Clayton. Remember when He had that ESPN commercial where He is in his room listening to Slayer. LoL

 

Secret ponytail!

 

Ahhh....the internet has everything!

 

LoL. Exactly. That's it.

 

Actually, many of them are journalists, by training and by trade.

 

My contention is that most have long ago abandoned any claim to that profession.

When you exist almost solely as a Twitter mouthpiece for agents, players, and teams to talk to each other without talking to each other...you are not a journalist.

Once you do that, who knows where you redraw the ethical boundaries?

FWIW, the actors in the original example incident in this thread are not journalists. A former player who started on Twitter with badly filmed breakdowns that has forced his way into more exposure and better resources by building a following. Who knows what compromises he is willing to make to maintain that following?

Do I think that Orlovsky is taking cash to shape his opinion of Ty Simpson? No. Do I think that he might be open to be influence by his agent? Absolutely.

 

Orlovsky isn’t taking cash actually his agent takes cash from him

But……

The more Simpson gets the more the common agent gets and the more the agent could/will/might try to find Orlovsky side jobs

Plus some agents are jackasses some are close with their players