I would imagine. Considering how many households have multiple tablets/laptops/smartphones. I have one of each, I'm sure most do, along with their significant others. It may be you can only watch on 1 device at a time like Sunday Ticket was. But you can always just check out piratebay and DL it too...
Yeah. I watch GoT on my iPhone because the wife is reading the books and DOESN'T want spoilers (she'll stop reading). I generally don't watch sitting at the computer, so I'm not tethered in to a streaming site.
It's on my agenda for this week.
Some of the info is out there obviously, but mentioning Dez Bryant only enhances the point I was making. The assumption in the article is that Dallas doesn't draft players with character issues (at least this year) and yet there's Dez Bryant, who had his own question marks coming out. Which begs the question, what changed? Who changed that philosophy? Or is there something deeper there? Depending on how you interpret the data, you could argue that Dez Bryant's off-the-field issues aren't something they want to deal with again, regardless of how badass he plays (at times).
However, all that aside, my main point is that there's no upside whatsoever and tons of downside. By deconstructing their draft board you can legitimately evaluate how their team was built--especially based on the draft they wanted but didn't get. That's twice in the last couple years. If you take a 5-year spread, you can definitely evaluate how they put a team together.
Before and during the draft, leverage, threats (threatening to take your prize player) and feints are the name of the game. Coaches even watch players work out whom they don't even want--all because a division rival is interested. Having your last draft board public isn't helpful in this regard.
As a fan, you and me and probably everyone here would love to see our own draft board. But when it comes to winning games and being professional, would you really want ours out there? Or would you just not care?
Sure there is. The Cowboys are as much about marketing and branding as they are about football. They're getting pub that isn't Desmond Bryant getting arrested or Dez Bryant working for Michael Jordan for free. That organization eats that stuff up.
I honestly don't care whether our draft board gets released after the draft. What is the downside? It's pretty clear how a team wants to put itself together when you just look at their roster. If you read the articles by guys like Peter King who sit inside the draft rooms, teams know who they're going to pick; it's incredibly rare when a team is surprised by a particular player "falling" to them.
That's how you go from Mike Mayock having a second round grade on Ryan Swope to saying that Swope falling into the sixth round was no surprise "because of all the concussions" that no one talked about in the lead-up to the draft. Teams make calls and disclose who they'd be interested in trading up/down for ALL THE TIME, EVERY YEAR.
As Klosterman said in that Grantland piece, there's really not a ton of magic to what goes on in NFL War Rooms; they're watching the same two networks that we are for 98% of their info. Everything else is on tape.
Do I think that Jones would release his draft board the day of the draft? Probably not, but I think he understands the publicity upside of having a terrible draft's rankings out there (really, to me, the surprise is having first round grades on only 18 players) doesn't make much of a difference.
