Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Kage and the Seidkick's 2014 NFL Mock Draft 1.0

For those of you who don't know, my best friend, Kevin Gregus, and I do a weekly podcast (you can find that podcast on the right side of this blog or on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kage-and-the-seidkick/id635443276?mt=2),  Anyways, we decided that a fun exercise would be to do a mock draft for the NFL where we alternate picks and then discuss our mock draft on the podcast.  Here is the resulting mock draft for your enjoyment and keep your eye out for the connecting podcast the following week for more talk of how we came to those picks.


The Rules
The rules are simple: we flip a coin to determine who selects first. After that, Kage and myself alternate picks until all 32 first round picks are made.

In addition to the basic premise, we set guidelines for making our picks. First, we assume that all teams are as they are and free agents are still on the team.  Second and more importantly, we are picking as we think the teams should and not as we think they will. This is a "if we were the GMs, this is our thinking" mock draft, not a "this is who we think that particular GM will pick" mock draft. That rule is simply because it's more fun to think of what a smart GM would do, rather than try to guess what moronic move Jerry Jones will make this year.

The coin flip was called tails by Kage and landed tails, so K will pick first with yours truly going second, and so on.

Without further ado, our first mock draft!