I enjoy listening to pre-draft coverage after the draft. Before the draft it's all air but after it's interesting to see who has a pulse on what's going on and how valued picks are.A couple notes about the QBs. There were scouts, per Peter Schrager, who were comparing Wentz to Luck in October/November. I know a lot of people are down on Goff/Wentz (and they'll probably be right) but it's interesting to hear contrasting views. Way before the hype there were some people who were very high on Goff and Wentz (not necessarily on both though). Walterfootball valued the QBs as Mariota, Winston, Wentz, Goff and maintains that the Titans, if given the choice of the two, would've taken Mariota. I was also listening to The Business of Sports w/Andrew Brandt which I really enjoyed. He had Joe Banner on (April 25th) who had some interesting things to say:1) He talked about how they felt the positions that most correlated with winning were QB, pass rushers, OL (particularly tackles), and CB. These were the positions that they felt were premium positions they valued over all others. Some people have been critical of the Bucs for drafting a CB but per Banner's model it makes perfect sense. You need elite players at CB and rush, so you should grab the best player from that group.2) He also talked about why he thought the Panthers let Norman go. Teams are making projections all the time on what they think they can sign players for. Banner predicted that because Gettleman valued his DL so much that deals like Malik Jackson caused them to recalculate what they'd be able to resign Short for. So the Panthers realized they wouldn't be able to resign Norman so let him go so they could get a deal done with Short (which is now happening).Just some interesting tidbits. As an aside, I'm not a big Joe Banner (or Mike Lombardi) fan but they were actually doing a good job with the Browns before Haslam jettisoned them. Hell, they got a 1st for Trent Richardson.
