The NBA Draft lottery was a hit on Tuesday night, with the hype around Victor Wembanyama reaching astronomical levels before the Spurs eventually won the coveted No. 1 overall pick.
It has become a yearly occurrence for the lottery to spark debate about whether the NFL should adopt the same strategy, in an effort to limit tanking and add excitement in the offseason.
BMitch would be opposed to such a change.
“They put a draft lottery in, it’s gonna get ridiculous,” BMitch said. “We complain about so many games and teams, you don’t think we’d complain even more?
“One person alone doesn’t change a team. You got Joe Burrow, but he had some receivers comer in too, and a defense that played out of your minds. One player won’t change it. you’d have to get those other players eventually. If I have an above average quarterback and the rest of my team is loaded, I’m gonna beat the team with a great quarterback but they suck.”
Finlay agreed that it would be much trickier for a sport like football, where top prospects sometimes emerge out of nowhere just before entering the draft, while others sometimes fade quickly, not like Wembanyama or LeBron James, generational prospects who appear on teams’ radars for years before they are entering the draft.
“The problem with tanking in the NFL, just look at Sam Howell,” Finlay said. “Two years ago, he was considered a Heisman front runner, one of the best quarterbacks, a surefire top 10 pick. What happened? Carolina sucked that year, his game reverted, he ended up going in the fifth round. If you think that’s an outlier, no it’s not.
“Think about Joe Burrow. Teams weren’t tanking for Burrow. They were tanking for Tua [Tagovailoa], until Burrow was put in an offensive juggernaut.”
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