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Originally Posted by Audi
Exactly. You may think that draft was a "surprise" but that's because you were probably following some mock draft on an Internet site.
"Polian recently said two things are true:
• For those who actually do the drafting, the first-round is rarely a mystery.
• It usually doesn't play out as those doing the mocking predict."
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Yes, your hyping up of GMs as omniscient gods with perfect foresight is something else. The mocks may not get freaking order right, but generally right about the general vincinity of where the players are taken.
I
wouldn't be surprised if the Rams take EITHER Bradford or Suh this year. Polian isn't surprised because he probably accounted most of the ways the picks could have gone, NOT because he has some godly ESP.
The Jets could have taken Leinart, and no one would be that surprised either because he was one of those top prospects. If Leinart fell to 8, that wouldn't have been surprising either, because the Lions bombed with Harrington and may have wanted a fresh start. I'll bet he played out all of those potential scenarios and wouldn't have been the least bit surprised if ANY of them happened.