Every team's employees are going to be working remotely from one another, and will have to rely on technology and trust/pray it holds up.
Lots of articles talking about Zoom/Webex meetings for prospects and pre-draft interviews, but for anyone who has ever done a fantasy draft, you know that some team is going to **** something up on draft weekend. The wifi shits out, bad reception, you miss your turn, etc etc..
Can you imagine a 60-year old GM sitting at home, yelling at his son trying to figure out how to get his computer to turn on while they are on the clock?
I don't think there's been enough attention paid to how much potential there is for **** ups that weekend. [Reply]
Usually the NFL Draft is the sporting spectacle that I am least interested in. It's just a bunch of buffoons yelling over each other about players they are just guessing about.
But this year, what the fuck else I gotta do. [Reply]
It'll be great guys will forget to turn off their mics and be talking shit about other teams.....probably some porn hijacking, also can the Tiger King announce our pick? [Reply]
Are we pretending that the NFL doesnt have a massive tech team thats gonna be ahead of this? It's not just gonna be "Yo Bert skype in when your ready!" I'm sure theyre preparing for it every day up until. I work for one of the largest tech companies in the world if they had months to prepare for the largest web meeting in company history they would JIMP. Theres people who just live for these opportunities. I'm sure the NFL has some of them on payroll. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dante84:
For sure, I'm just thinking the pressure will be on with everything happening so fast. Especially day 3 with 5 mins between picks and trade requests coming fast and furious.
I mean, that’s done now with tech and phones. Won’t be much different. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dunerdr:
Are we pretending that the NFL doesnt have a massive tech team thats gonna be ahead of this? It's not just gonna be "Yo Bert skype in when your ready!" I'm sure theyre preparing for it every day up until. I work for one of the largest tech companies in the world if they had months to prepare for the largest web meeting in company history they would JIMP. Theres people who just live for these opportunities. I'm sure the NFL has some of them on payroll.
Originally Posted by Dante84:
I think the room for error/issues will be on the end-user side rather than the centralized warroom side.
I can just see Bill O'Brien ****ing up his login and getting blocked out while he's in his basement.
O'Brien will likely be on a video call with a bunch of Titans fans and won't know it, while an O'Brien lookalike from Indianapolis is making the Texans' picks to the league. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
I mean, that’s done now with tech and phones. Won’t be much different.
There is a difference though in having every person that plays a part in the draft process in the same room vs the only way to communicate with each individual one is via phone.
Two weeks before the draft isolate every person that is a part of the draft process at Arrowhead. Two weeks prior to that have those same people isolate at home. If a team or group of people could/would commit to that type of an arrangement that team would have an advantage over the rest of the league. [Reply]