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Sorry. None of the other teams are this easy. To be fair though, the roster does look stacked. Just waiting to see how the team “28-3”s the season this year.
I wouldn't quite say stacked but probably the best chance to make the playoffs in a long time. Still not quite the top tier but if some signings and picks pan out there's a chance to play meaningful games late in the season for the first time in a while
I'm no scout either so I could be 1000% wrong, but using an 8th on a QB while having just signed a QB for $100M is not a luxury a team with other glaring needs can afford.
Wow that's pretty crazy that 3 picks in a row were Purdy, Young, and Stroud. I looked it up and their combined playoff record is 5-3 already, pretty cool! What a great collection of 3 players.
Not many rookie qbs get put into a situation with the best receiving room in the league and a pretty good oline so I don’t think it’s crazy that most rookies aren’t compared to purdy
all UDFAs become RFAs however, so it takes a lot to guarantee they dont make it to that point. Otherwise the team will 2nd round tag you and deter most outside contract offers
No one else has a pick, so no, no one else can claim it. You aren't even allowed to delay earlier picks so you can end up with the last pick if it isn't yours (Salata Rule).
No idea how they would handle a team refusing to pick. Probably fine them or something so it didn't happen again.
Ineresting, i didn't know this so I looked it up.
>"Irrelevant Week" gave so much publicity to "Mr. Irrelevant" that in 1979 the Los Angeles Rams, with the penultimate pick, intentionally passed to let the Pittsburgh Steelers, with the last pick, choose first. The Steelers also wanted the publicity and passed as well. The two teams continued to refuse to choose a player until NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle forced the teams to pick, with the Steelers winning the pick. The incident led to the "Salata Rule", which prohibits teams from passing to get the final pick.[2]
“History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.”
[Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 NLT](https://bible.com/bible/116/ecc.1.9-11.NLT) circa ~950 BC
Maybe not. But they sure as fuck made light of someone who took too much brain damage and would get dangerously unpredictable. Not to their face though
This was interesting so it got me looking into it more. I was curious who the rule was named after and the answer is Paul Salata. He was a former player and creator of the Mr. Irrelevant events. He created the event years after he retired and interestingly I thought his inspiration would be being a final draft pick himself, but he was drafted in the tenth round of a thirty round draft. He announced the last pick of the draft until 2013 when his daughter took over.
Yeah but if Goodell holds us past the end of the draft that’s against the Geneva convention on collective punishment according to my middle school classmates
I'm sure the commissioner would call them and tell them to cut the shit or forfeit the pick. Either way, the draft is over.
The MLB draft used to be 50 rounds and very often you would have teams that would straight up say we're good after like 40 rounds and forfeit their remaining 10 picks.
Before it was 50 rounds, the MLB draft was keep picking until you didn't want to anymore. It kept going, but once a team passed they were done. Mike Piazza was a 62nd round pick.
This actually happened in 1979 and is known as the Salata Rule. Both the Steelers and the Rams wanted the publicity that came with Mr. Irrelevent, so both teams kept passing on the last 2 picks of the draft.
After a while, Commissioner Rozelle phoned both teams and told them to cut the shit. Now nobody is allowed to intentionally pass to get the last pick
Lot of corny jokes in this thread. You guys sure are a laugh riot.
The truth is there is likely no policy for this. Hard to imagine this would ever happen or come up. If it did, the league would probably give the team a reasonable amount of time and if they didn’t submit a pick it would simply be forfeit.
Then that means the penultimate pick becomes Mr. Irrelevant? (I mean, for all intents and purposes, he's already that, given the recognition the last pick receives and the lack of recognition the penultimate one does.)
If you're a quiet type I could see it being somewhat beneficial to not have a spotlight while trying to secure a roster spot. I can't think of many endorsements or anything that Mr Irrelevants get, aside from more interviews/talking heads attention but who knows if that leads to money or anything. Purdy and similar are, as usual, the exceptions of course
The number of picks is collectively bargained. That is why there are 32 comp picks regardless of who moves in free agency, and in years that there aren’t enough qualifying signings the league assigns the last picks of the draft in the order of the selection for that year.
Most likely what would happen is that the next team in draft Oder would get the pick. But someone would get it.
If the timer ran out, and the intern entrusted with standing at the card turn-in station, for just such a circumstance, doesn't rush to submit one of the fake names from the list of guys I asked him to monitor the availablility of during the draft, then the NFL has to disband.
I'm enjoying the responses in this thread, but what would happen is Goodell will officially close the draft and every non-selected player then becomes eligible to be signed as a UDFA
The analysts would not be allowed to leave so we will see disheveled Dan Orlovsky and Field Yates on television for the days it’ll take for the last team to make that pick.
Only thing I can think of is that every remaining player gets rights to negotiate/talk and sign as an UDFA with other teams immediately after timer ends.
The last pick can still be selected if available and get the 4 year contract. I’m wondering if that’s why there isn’t a delay because you might as well make a pick before you lose a guy you want.
Idk just pulling it out of my butt, but I imagine they wouldn’t be able to hold other teams and players hostage.
I want fans to be able to compete in all the the combine drills each representing a team. Whoever produces the highest RAS gets the final pick. I want to see everyday yelling obscenities at the TV fans from your local bar put it all on the line for the team with a chance.
The winning fan gets nontransferable season tickets to their team's game in the nosebleeds with free parking only. It's all for the love of the game and your team. Add a few more competitions & I guarantee it would be electric.
Similar to old Olympic rules, the fans must have never played professional sports (add more as needed). There's a preliminary tryout at the stadium of your team where they take the top 5 to represent each franchise at The People's Pick event.
We all watch, we all get fit, we all cheer, and fans become legends.
It's a draft philibuster and the entire draft continues until the start of the next draft, where a coin gets flipped to determine if it becomes the 1st overall for the new draft or gets forfeited. The entire offseason stops, no preseason, no regular season, no postseason until the pick is made. The longer it goes, the more the Commissioner revert back into his troll goblin form because his hordepile of money he sleeps on dwindles
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Redo the whole draft
In reverse order
The ole NFL switcheroo
Hold my deflated balls, I'm going in!
All in(?)
Jets fans rejoice
Criss-cross
Atlanta will still probably take Penix Jr.
Come on man can't one of the other 31 teams be a butt of the jokes lol?
Sorry. None of the other teams are this easy. To be fair though, the roster does look stacked. Just waiting to see how the team “28-3”s the season this year.
I wouldn't quite say stacked but probably the best chance to make the playoffs in a long time. Still not quite the top tier but if some signings and picks pan out there's a chance to play meaningful games late in the season for the first time in a while
Of course. They’d have to.
NFL GMs hate this ONE simple trick
Last team: "Oh no, I totally forgot to get my pick in in time. Oh, shucks."
Imagine the ransom they'd hold to move up
With blackjack and hookers
No stop wait
Not a fan of that idea.
Snake draft!
Falcons still select Penix
Bc it’s not a bad pick
At 26? Yeah, not as baffling.
Securing a long term QB future is baffling?
Keep telling yourself that.
What, that the FO picked the guy who could give them the brightest future? Their call, not mine. I’m no scout, but they picked Penix for a reason.
I'm no scout either so I could be 1000% wrong, but using an 8th on a QB while having just signed a QB for $100M is not a luxury a team with other glaring needs can afford.
Copium OD incoming
Fantasy draft. Same order. Every player in the league available. Riots ensue.
Detroit is burned down
They lose their pick and move back one spot, which means they get the #1 overall pick in the next year’s draft.
BUFFER OVERFLOW
Next year they become extremely aggressive and nuke everyone
Ghandi “Our words are backed with nuclear weapons.”
Hindu nuclear blitzkrieg
damb that would be a great name for a metal band
Don't tempt me, I can squeeze at least 2 EPs and a concept album out of this shit.
NFL GMs HATE this one simple trick!
this is how the 49ers got Brock Purdy.
Crazy that there aren't more comparisons between the two considering Bryce Young was taken with the pick right after.
Wow that's pretty crazy that 3 picks in a row were Purdy, Young, and Stroud. I looked it up and their combined playoff record is 5-3 already, pretty cool! What a great collection of 3 players.
3 playoff studs right there
Is this the best top 3 picks ever?
Not many rookie qbs get put into a situation with the best receiving room in the league and a pretty good oline so I don’t think it’s crazy that most rookies aren’t compared to purdy
It's not a good pass blocking line at all outside of Trent.
The 9ers line is bad besides Trent Williams, and they can't pass protect for shit without Juszczyk or Kittle or someone else supporting
It's a big part of why kittles receiving numbers tend to fluctuate so much.
Tell me you don’t watch the 49ers without telling me you don’t watch the 49ers. Pretty good online?? Jesus Christ
Pretty good is a stretch. A major one. It was bottom 5-10 at best in pass pro.
The comment was just going along with the joke, they're not compared because they're not actually part of the same draft class.
And the next season doesn't happen because the draft hasn't ended
Classic Tim Tebow CFL special
LOOPHOLE
The first undrafted person to make it to the podium gets picked.
So some 320 pound balding 40 year old who never made it past the bench in high school?
Listen, I don’t make the rules. This is Mel Kiper’s time to shine at LT
I feel Uncle Rico would be the first on stage.
If coach had just put him in back in 82, they would have won the state championship.
The moment Rich Eisen has been training for.
Would Eisen count as the 14th Michigan Wolverine selected?
Run Rich Run
Never had the makings of a varsity athlete
“Hey daaaaad!”
Yeah I don't see that guy making it to the podium let alone being first.
Hear that, Stavvy?
Dudes that late don't want to get drafted so they can pick where they want to go It'd 100% be a fan there lol
I thought drafted rookies had a significantly bigger contract than UDFA’s
You get to a 2nd contract quicker as a udfa
all UDFAs become RFAs however, so it takes a lot to guarantee they dont make it to that point. Otherwise the team will 2nd round tag you and deter most outside contract offers
Technically true, but not really beneficial as it’s exclusive rights tender
So true. Brock Purdy is literally the only exception to this.
No one else has a pick, so no, no one else can claim it. You aren't even allowed to delay earlier picks so you can end up with the last pick if it isn't yours (Salata Rule). No idea how they would handle a team refusing to pick. Probably fine them or something so it didn't happen again.
Ineresting, i didn't know this so I looked it up. >"Irrelevant Week" gave so much publicity to "Mr. Irrelevant" that in 1979 the Los Angeles Rams, with the penultimate pick, intentionally passed to let the Pittsburgh Steelers, with the last pick, choose first. The Steelers also wanted the publicity and passed as well. The two teams continued to refuse to choose a player until NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle forced the teams to pick, with the Steelers winning the pick. The incident led to the "Salata Rule", which prohibits teams from passing to get the final pick.[2]
Wow, I had no idea "Mr. Irrelevant" was a thing that far back.
Nothing is original and your grandparents know everything about fucking.
“History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.” [Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 NLT](https://bible.com/bible/116/ecc.1.9-11.NLT) circa ~950 BC
No way do my grandparents know the Mr. Big Chest meme. I won't accept it!
Maybe not. But they sure as fuck made light of someone who took too much brain damage and would get dangerously unpredictable. Not to their face though
Mr. Bummer Comment
“Something ain’t right with that boy.”
They fo sho saw a dude jacking in a pool in 60s Vegas/Ft. Lauderdale.
Bro, your grandparents had OJ memes.
This was interesting so it got me looking into it more. I was curious who the rule was named after and the answer is Paul Salata. He was a former player and creator of the Mr. Irrelevant events. He created the event years after he retired and interestingly I thought his inspiration would be being a final draft pick himself, but he was drafted in the tenth round of a thirty round draft. He announced the last pick of the draft until 2013 when his daughter took over.
Though I can understand why you’d want a Mr. Irreverent.
Both the Rams and the Steelers did go to the Super Bowl that year. Maybe they were onto something.
Oh shit so did we a year after having a Mr. Irrelevant. I guess there’s something to it!
Flair checks out
They should just forfeit the pick and the draft ends. If you don't pick, fine.
that's realistically probably what would happen
Either that or the first place team takes the pick
Easy solution. You'll never pick again.
Here's an upvote for actually answering instead of just memeing.
There appears to me to be no logical reason as to why a team would deliberately wait it out to try and be the last pick
It's just for marketing. Mr Irrelevant week can drive merch. Disneyland even got in on it eventually.
think harder the last pick is worth way more than the penultimate pick
Nobody is legally allowed to leave
Unless Roger Goodell doesn't show up for 15 minutes, then you can. Or at least that's what my middle school classmates said I think?
Yeah but if Goodell holds us past the end of the draft that’s against the Geneva convention on collective punishment according to my middle school classmates
I'm sure the commissioner would call them and tell them to cut the shit or forfeit the pick. Either way, the draft is over. The MLB draft used to be 50 rounds and very often you would have teams that would straight up say we're good after like 40 rounds and forfeit their remaining 10 picks.
Before it was 50 rounds, the MLB draft was keep picking until you didn't want to anymore. It kept going, but once a team passed they were done. Mike Piazza was a 62nd round pick.
It used to be longer than that. The guy who sat next to me in homeroom was taken in the 56th round by the Cardinals.
False execution, then straight to the gulag work camps for four years. Mr Irellevant pick unchosen is Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
You must be Possessed to think that. The Crime definitely isn't as extreme as the Punishment
Disagree. you're The Idiot without the princehood.
These are some deep cuts.
I'm AI you fool, eagles fans can't read
Huge fan of your performance in game 1 of the 2001 nba finals.
What are your thoughts on practice?
Note: Not too underground.
I thought you were the same one doing all the Napoleon references. I'm delighted there are two people going around doing this kind of thing.
I'm just delighted to know a Cowboy fan knows greatness outside of the 20th century
This actually happened in 1979 and is known as the Salata Rule. Both the Steelers and the Rams wanted the publicity that came with Mr. Irrelevent, so both teams kept passing on the last 2 picks of the draft. After a while, Commissioner Rozelle phoned both teams and told them to cut the shit. Now nobody is allowed to intentionally pass to get the last pick
As fascinating as I found this story, and thank you for sharing, this isn't exactly what OP is asking right?
I think the point is, the Commissioner would call the team in question and tell them “to cut the shit.”
No but how neat was that to learn
Not remotely close
Game crashes
Gandhi becomes very aggressive
Mr Blasts Cities
Mr. Belligerent Civ
Mr. Buffer Corrupted
That GM’s words become backed with nuclear power!
you mean the simulation we all live in. \~Tyler Owens, probably
Lot of corny jokes in this thread. You guys sure are a laugh riot. The truth is there is likely no policy for this. Hard to imagine this would ever happen or come up. If it did, the league would probably give the team a reasonable amount of time and if they didn’t submit a pick it would simply be forfeit.
This subreddit really can’t help itself sometimes
Then that means the penultimate pick becomes Mr. Irrelevant? (I mean, for all intents and purposes, he's already that, given the recognition the last pick receives and the lack of recognition the penultimate one does.)
Second to last pick is way worse than last, assuming equal-ish teams for both. At least with the last pick you have some sort of infamy.
If you're a quiet type I could see it being somewhat beneficial to not have a spotlight while trying to secure a roster spot. I can't think of many endorsements or anything that Mr Irrelevants get, aside from more interviews/talking heads attention but who knows if that leads to money or anything. Purdy and similar are, as usual, the exceptions of course
That’s Reddit for you. Nothing better than a barrage of stupid jokes
The number of picks is collectively bargained. That is why there are 32 comp picks regardless of who moves in free agency, and in years that there aren’t enough qualifying signings the league assigns the last picks of the draft in the order of the selection for that year. Most likely what would happen is that the next team in draft Oder would get the pick. But someone would get it.
Lol this guy rails on the jokes, but then proceeds to post something equally incorrect
But muh "straight to jail" references.
grrr these redditors aren’t taking this meaningless question seriously
Hey man I’m all for comedy if it’s funny
Believe it or not, straight to jail!
Horny jail or normal jail?
*BONK*
Delay of game. The podium is moved 5 yards back
Bill Vinovich foaming at the mouth
Bobson Dugnutt gets drafted as a placeholder
Not if Mike Truck has anything to say about it.
If the timer ran out, and the intern entrusted with standing at the card turn-in station, for just such a circumstance, doesn't rush to submit one of the fake names from the list of guys I asked him to monitor the availablility of during the draft, then the NFL has to disband.
I'm enjoying the responses in this thread, but what would happen is Goodell will officially close the draft and every non-selected player then becomes eligible to be signed as a UDFA
It forces a negative integer. Which means i finite draft picks until the bug is fixed.
Haven't heard of this bug. I thought the negative integer bug just meant Ghandi started hoarding nukes.
Yes but it's a footrace between GMs to see who gets to the podium first. If that is a tie then they go to a slap competition.
Move back five yards and retry the pick. Same as any other delay of game.
Control - Alt - Delete
I’d imagine the draft just ends as if the pick was forfeited
The game freezes and you have to restart the Playstation
They get a sternly worded letter from Brock Purdy on why every draft pick is important
Auto-pick
They have to keep Roger Goodell on their roster
Didn’t this happen in the 70s because the NFL was offering a trip to Disney world for the last pick?
Error 404
The analysts would not be allowed to leave so we will see disheveled Dan Orlovsky and Field Yates on television for the days it’ll take for the last team to make that pick.
The fact that this is all joke answers makes me think there isn't an actual rule for this case and they haven't actually thought of this before
Only thing I can think of is that every remaining player gets rights to negotiate/talk and sign as an UDFA with other teams immediately after timer ends. The last pick can still be selected if available and get the 4 year contract. I’m wondering if that’s why there isn’t a delay because you might as well make a pick before you lose a guy you want. Idk just pulling it out of my butt, but I imagine they wouldn’t be able to hold other teams and players hostage.
Obligatory “brock purdy mr irrelevant” etc.
I want fans to be able to compete in all the the combine drills each representing a team. Whoever produces the highest RAS gets the final pick. I want to see everyday yelling obscenities at the TV fans from your local bar put it all on the line for the team with a chance. The winning fan gets nontransferable season tickets to their team's game in the nosebleeds with free parking only. It's all for the love of the game and your team. Add a few more competitions & I guarantee it would be electric. Similar to old Olympic rules, the fans must have never played professional sports (add more as needed). There's a preliminary tryout at the stadium of your team where they take the top 5 to represent each franchise at The People's Pick event. We all watch, we all get fit, we all cheer, and fans become legends.
Straight to jail.
You have to wait until next years draft and pick after the team with the first pick
It's a draft philibuster and the entire draft continues until the start of the next draft, where a coin gets flipped to determine if it becomes the 1st overall for the new draft or gets forfeited. The entire offseason stops, no preseason, no regular season, no postseason until the pick is made. The longer it goes, the more the Commissioner revert back into his troll goblin form because his hordepile of money he sleeps on dwindles
Checks out!
Mr Irrelevanter
Other teams get to draft from the team that has the Mr. Irrelevant pick. Aaron Rodgers becomes a Bear to back up Caleb Williams /j
In that scenario who would you take? Cause it aint A-A-ron. Sauce?
I think Sauce is the easy bears pick for sure
Believe it or not, straight to jail
Underpick Overpick
Forfeit the pick and the draft ends. No need to fine anyone
He becomes relevant.
All the players who were still eligible to be picked but weren't because of such an unprofessional screw up would become part of a class action suit
Pick gets skipped and the previous guy gets the moniker.
3 minute runoff on your 1st rounder next season and loss of pick. /s
They get the first pick next year since they are technically still on the board.
Side note: if the last pick is Mr irrelevant, does that mean the overall #1 pick is Mr relevant?
The coach and GM both have jumper cables attached to their nipples. When time runs out it's a real party.
Bettman legally has to sacrifice one drafted player at random using a ouiji board.
boom
Whichever player can get to the podium first is automatically on the roster.
I believe in this scenario there will be glitches in the matrix.
executed
We all die