It’s not typically that something Roger Goodell says is met with acclamation.
Talking Friday on “The Pat McAfee Show”, nevertheless, Goodell might need discovered an exception.
“I started thinking last night we gotta shorten [the draft],” Goodell mentioned. “… I’m making it up, seven-minute first round, but you can get two minutes extra if you need it. You could call it but then you don’t get it again the rest of the draft.”
Given how the primary spherical specifically can drag on for hours, it’s exhausting to consider this wouldn’t be universally widespread amongst followers.
The primary spherical on Thursday ran almost 4 hours, from 8 pm to 11:43, when the Chiefs made the thirty second choose.
There may be some precedent for the NFL altering the draft format.
In 2007, the timer was shortened from quarter-hour within the first spherical to 10, and three years after that, there was an additional day added, with the draft going from a weekend affair to Thursday-Saturday.
Groups may object to a change, as it will give them much less time to think about picks or make trades.
An apparent counterargument, although, is that loads of trades occur when the clock is shortened in later rounds. The time Goodell is proposing to be taken off would seemingly show superfluous on condition that.
Dropping three minutes per choose off the primary spherical would equate to 96 minutes in whole saved. So this yr’s first spherical, for instance, would have ended at 10:07, a much more palatable time for viewers, particularly on the East Coast and on a weeknight as well.
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After all, which may additionally equate to much less advert income, so ESPN might not be lining up behind the thought.
For followers, although, one would think about this may be some of the widespread concepts Goodell has ever put forth, if he can deliver it from McAfee to the rostrum subsequent yr in Pittsburgh.
