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Packers GM: "Analysts are clueless"

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Ted Thompson talking about draft coverage (MMQB)

"There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about.''

Peter King adds a bit of a jab back at Thompson in the quote attribution.

-- Green Bay GM Ted Thompson, who has a right to say what he wants about the Mayock/Kiper/McShay set because he just won the Super Bowl. But have a couple of bad drafts, or pick a couple more Justin Harrells and Brian Brohms, and you might hear the geniuses come out of the woodwork on Thompson.

This goes back to a point I made in a post talking about how to watch draft coverage a little while back. Specifically, that NFL GMs and personnel people really don't care what media and draft experts think.

But do you think they should or is Thompson right? And was King right to be a little snippy here?

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bye bye lucy....anyway every year execs say the analysts dont know poo and every year the analysts are kinda right on somethings and not really as bad as the execs say the are. is it all blind luck?

kinda right?

everyone on the huddle is "kinda right" at one point or another with their opinions.

so what's the one difference between an "analyst" and a fan?

several million dollars.

what's the one thing they both have in common.

they get ignored by GMs.

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kinda right?

everyone on the huddle is "kinda right" at one point or another with their opinions.

so what's the one difference between an "analyst" and a fan?

several million dollars.

what's the one thing they both have in common.

they get ignored by GMs.

yea but let the Packers GM tell it...the analyst are NEVER right i mean the analyst seem to be getting some decent information from somewhere

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King is "kinda right" too though.

If we're being fair, how many GMs have totally blown picks that analysts predicted ahead of time they shouldn't make?

It works both ways. Sometimes there right other times not so much (see NFL vs Kiper on Clausen).

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