You've Got Mail: The Players Come Back

[Big Red]

I'd say the draft buildup has changed some, but mostly because of the internet and social media. I've been doing this long enough that the internet was still kinda slow back in 2000 and certainly there was no social media. There was no NFL Network. ESPN played up the draft plenty, but that was still somewhat contained. Now you have Twitter constantly feeding the beast, and the ease at which people not only can read the internet but also post content has exponentially increased coverage -- some meaningful, some not as much. In the end, the problem is that there isn't enough actual meaningful things to talk about for the months between the Scouting combine (and before) through the draft. It inevitably creates a lot of, let's say, non-meaningful content people are digesting.

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