I wanted to take a quick second to issue a general message to the rookies. First of all, thank you guys for kicking ass and making this draft so deep with talent. Second thing, I want to say is an apology to all of the guys that we didn’t scout in advance of the draft. One thing we’ve traditionally done is not really started the scouting process until after the playoffs. Simultaneously, I wasn’t really mindful of the fact that this draft would probably need to start earlier and move faster than drafts we’ve had in the past. Big mistake on my end. So basically we got the draft board together the Tuesday before the pre-draft started and started reaching out to guys. Obviously with close to 60 active prospects in this class we did not get everyone on the board scouted before our first pick. From there we were kind of just scouting as we moved along and, with the rate at which picks were being made, we had to cross guys off our list as they were selected between our picks without having scouted them. So while we felt comfortable making basically every pick we made, there were a lot of guys who we were eying maybe a round later who we never got to reach out to, and if you were in that group I do apologize. We didn’t blow you off intentionally, but to keep up with the draft and the guys on our board we just couldn’t reach out to everyone, particularly not guys who’d already been drafted.
Then came the weekend and the pick clock and at that point, between the time constraint and just living me real life, I pretty much abandoned hope of scouting guys directly and started drafting based on the notes we’d made about activity in league discords and on the forums.
Anyway, like I’ve already said I’m a huge fan of this class and of all of the awesome content you guys have generated leading up to the draft, so I definitely never intended to snub anyone. Best of luck to all of you going forward and please don’t hate me please please please. And if you don't then just ask yourself: does Spec need to be liked? Absolutely not. He likes to be liked. He enjoys being liked. He has to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need to be liked, like his need to be praised.
Go Otters
Then came the weekend and the pick clock and at that point, between the time constraint and just living me real life, I pretty much abandoned hope of scouting guys directly and started drafting based on the notes we’d made about activity in league discords and on the forums.
Anyway, like I’ve already said I’m a huge fan of this class and of all of the awesome content you guys have generated leading up to the draft, so I definitely never intended to snub anyone. Best of luck to all of you going forward and please don’t hate me please please please. And if you don't then just ask yourself: does Spec need to be liked? Absolutely not. He likes to be liked. He enjoys being liked. He has to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need to be liked, like his need to be praised.
Go Otters
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