NFL looking to reduce time between draft picks

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Let's face it, with the amount of preparation that goes into the draft, teams don't need 15 minutes to sit there and field phone calls for trades that rarely happen anyway. Besides, teams already have a pretty good idea going into a draft of potential trades, I highly doubt that on draft day something comes completely out of the blue. It might happen once in a great while, but generally I think teams already have the framework of deals in place prior to the draft.

I'd love the draft starting in prime time on a Friday night.

A Friday night start would be really tough for us.