Buckling Down For the Draft
Apr20
on April 20, 2026
at 12:01 am
I thought I had another week to go, so I gotta lock in. The draft cards will go up on Friday as usual.
The Draw Play
A football comic by Dave Rappoccio
I thought I had another week to go, so I gotta lock in. The draft cards will go up on Friday as usual.
Come on Dave, let’s see your mock draft, your mock mock draft, your revised mock draft predicting a surprise trade, and of course your mock draft for next year’s draft.
I am glad that as the years have gone on this pre-draft nonsense has been limited to large collaborative postings – Which are great IMO. It was fragmented and a nightmare about a decade ago but now I can largely avoid Mocks unless I am actually seeking them out.
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Buttsecks.
You did this last year, too
https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/buckling-down-for-the-draft/
At least you were only a week off this time?
Narrator: He didn’t
Funny, I actually thought it was last week and I missed it.
Draft sucks. At least the off-season drama is somewhat entertaining.
Only moment of the draft I ever laughed about was when the Chargers picked Eli and he had that fake half-smile.
The Tunsil gas mask bong was peak draft madness as well. That photo was ridiculous.
I did used to look forward to ESPN airing, year-after-year, the same montage of Pete Rozelle and Paul Tagliabue announcing various Jets draft busts whenever their pick came up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZxNeFLuY98
Rozelle knew what he was doing with those announcements too. Failing to stifle his laughter in 1989 over the Jeff Lageman selection that caused every non-Jets fan at the draft to bust a gut (ESPN even catches a clip of a Bucs fan rolling with laughter… a Bucs fan in 1989!). And then there’s this bit of tremendous comedic timing in Rozelle’s final draft in 1989:
“New York Jets first round selection, fullback…”
– pause for the inevitable anguished crays of Jets fans –
“Roger Vick, Texas A&M”
Warming up my vocal cords for the annual booing of Goodell.
For the first time ever as a Jags fan I’m going to kick back like Ditka through the first round.
Gotta trust the process.
James Gladstone is a genius.
Preseason optimism on max.
Vrabel’s pick is just gonna be Russini wearing a fake mustache and saying she’s from some obscure D3 college in Iowa.