NFL GM Breaks Down Scenes From Draft Day | LA Chargers 

In the movie, they traded up for the smart but unpopular pick in Mack ahead of the popular quarterback with character red flags, and it paid off. In real life, they traded up for the popular quarterback with character red flags instead of perhaps staying at #4 and making the smart but perhaps unpopular pick…also in Mack. And then Mike Mayock said, “This is just like the movie Draft Day”. It was a perfect Browns-ing.

My favorite part of that whole thing is that they had that pricey pricey study to determine who the best quarterback was in that first round range and their report came back with Teddy Bridgewater, and they just totally ignored it

The Browns saw how the movie bombed at the box office and said "We're not making that mistake! Let's draft a cowboy! Wooooo!"

@@AdamKlownzinger even if we would have taken him, it doesn’t really change the trajectory of our history…. It’s not like they passed on mahomes for Manziel

It's funny how it was the jags and brown making the dumb choices like in real life 😂

“They’re tiny!” lol

How much bigger do the boards have to be?

@@garse70 Huge, think about it. There are possibly thousands of players they scouted for each round/position. If a team wants a.. say a RB, they would have their list of options but also planning out for which rounds as well. They would maybe have a few for each round or alternate plans and etc. They legit would have walls of players' names.

If you search for, “get an inside look at the NFL draft war rooms”, there’s a dozen+ photos of various teams’ war rooms w/boards in the background, circa 2014. Covers half the wall typically. Different boards w/different info on them. Aside: I wonder how long that info is sensitive? I’d rather my competition didn’t know what we felt was critical last couple years.

Fantasy draft boards are bigger LOL

Facts!! The way that they got Telesco to do a play by play of what really goes on is priceless content. BOLT UP!!

It’s all about teamwork. ⚡️⚡️⚡️BOLTZ⚡️⚡️⚡️

I agree! I can’t get enough of this stuff!

This didn't age well

lol they even liked your comment because they knew that were about to drop something amazing

Tom's appearances on Pat McAfee show are great. He'll be on for an interview during the draft for Pats show tomorrow

Watch all the times he goes on the Pat McAfee show, he’s really candid on the show. Not like when in a press conferenxe

Yes he definitely feels a lot more confident

Still suck

Lol this guy is mr personality.

Not to mention the subplot of how he's having a baby with his co-worker who's 30 years his junior.

You’re ignoring the Jacksonville GM who didn’t know who the hell he was taking at pick 6, and then traded it away for some 2nd round picks

@@mckerob It’s truly a three way race to the bottom.

Where does my old gm Ryan Pace rank? The one who traded the 3rd pick for the 2nd pick to pick Mitch Trubisky

@@mckerob That's the worst GM in the league. The Seahawks guy does... okay, basically trading Putney to save salary on Callahan.

same!

Chargers heading into this offseason over the cap by something like $54million.

@@ericparker163 good thing all the money was well spent /s

@@DaSauceful Based on results?

@@ericparker163 the /s denotes sarcasm

@@DaSauceful ...and now I know. Appreciated. Took it for a typo of j/s

And they still took him? What was the point?

This happened after they drafted him

@@jefecito5108that was after they drafted him an nfl team would not give a yet to be drafted player film and tell them to study it

@@Notjaycee6 or the team's playbook like they do in this movie

I guess it's like that bit in Moneyball where the scouts think a player sucks because his girlfriend's ugly. A lot of baseball fans I've known not only believe that to be real thing but think the scouts had a real point.

Well done. I love the NFL but the MLB and NHL are my favorite of the major sports. Really any baseball and hockey though I enjoy. Like now with the playoffs and IHF going on at the same time as baseball it’s the best time of year. Unfortunately my Ducks are too relevant these days but for you it must be just awesome to be working your way through the sport. Very cool. 🤙🏻

@@OCRay1 Thank you. When you first walk into the rink, they have photos of the coaches and management, I can't help but smile ear to ear when I look at my photo. I never thought this would be my life growing up, but I can't think of anything else I would rather be doing.

Which team?

It could mean that the team hates him. This could be nothing...or the biggest red flag you might find.

@@AT-il2ej it would be a massive red flag. If his teammates don't like him enough just to show up at his birthday party, no way will he be capable of leading grown men in the NFL.

Staley's outgoing personality must be rubbing off on Tom - GM's are hired because they are a "people person" - that's part of the job requirement for a coach. Nice to see him reminiscing about his first time in a draft room, moving magnets around because it illustrates a principle. If we are faithful in the small things, often times bigger opportunities come later.

It's a good movie but hard to watch as a big NFL fan. So much of it is not accurate like Tom said. I know they need to change things up for dramatic affect but it's obvious no one involved with this movie knows the least bit about how the draft works. They would never start looking into a player's background the day of the draft. Even if they had the 15th pick and the player was expected to go #1, they would still have notes on the guy going back at least a year just in case he slips past the first 14 picks and he's still available. Or they may have done the initial work just to determine if they're even willing to draft a guy.. Teams mark guys as undraftable all the time. Could be medical reason, could be attitude issue or someone who just doesn't fit the style of play for that team.

@@cJames404 as a mom of an NFL coach, loved this movie. Made for folks like me, who are fans but not experts. I lived in Cleveland for 2 years as a teen, graduated from high school there, so always rooted for the Browns, lol. Never thought as that young girl I would be connected to football at all, let alone the NFL= we never know😊.!!

You mean in Ballard we trust ;)

Probably would've traded Russell then and there of that was me, although hindsights always 20/20

@@jjmisiewicz7342 contracts weren't set by pick back then. In fact, Russell is the main reason for the rule change. He negotiated a giant contract that they couldn't just get out of, but they cut ties the moment they could afford to. As far as trading him, who on earth would have taken him? It's unlikely we'll ever see a bigger bust than Russell.

I thought they did this in his second or third year. He held out negotiating his contract for so long he missed the entire training camp and even the first couple weeks of the season so I'm pretty sure this DVD test would've broken some kind of player's union rule if he's not actually signed yet. The reason they were doing the DVD test was because he wasn't showing nearly the amount of improvement he should've been at that stage and they had a feeling based on his previous behavior that he wasn't studying game film.

Man trust me y'all got it so good with Tom. I'd kill to have him be the one drafting for the Patriots instead of Bill and a bunch of yes men. Our last draft we finally had a legit GM for the 1st time, and we end up with Mac Jones at 15 which looks good so far, Barmore at 38 who should have went in the 1st round and is already one of the best DTs in the league. Rhamondre Stevenson who's got all the talent to be a legit star 3 down back, and a very versatile speedy LB in McGrone who we stole cuz of injury issues. Then this year it was back to business as usual after Ziegler left for the Raiders and had a very successful 1st year as a GM, and the Pats just reached on literally every single pick in the draft and took a QB in the 4th and 2 RBs when we already have a great RB room, and I won't even get started on Cole Strange lol. Shits depressing

@@plazik7481 yeah pats and packers in the same boat

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You have to remember it’s a movie, it’s all for the effect of Drama.

@@jessedeleon4123 Haha! EVERY time I complain about something in a movie not being realistic, that is what I get. I go, "Come ON! They could/would NEVER do that!!" My wife then hits me with, "It's a movie." Or I go, "WHY did they do THAT?!" She says, "It's in the script." Agghhh!!

@@Enigma71559 oh I know trust me I know, my wife says the same thing to me when we watched it the first few times,bro I still play nfl gm the game to this day haha

It's Hollywood. If you want real life, just watch the draft.

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Haha if I was a scout, my “hair” would be someone’s name. If they don’t have that “QB name” then it would be a no go for me lol. Mitch Trubisky, I mean let’s get real, you draft a QB with a name like Mitch Trubisky you deserve what you get..

I was waiting for that, on all 3 trades. The value was unrealistic for all 3 these days.

Oh yeah, 11 years with only 2 playoffs appearance. Will sure miss him

Nor did TT know the Browns owner demanded a "splash" on draft day or he would be fired. Trading up was not what Sonny wanted to do.

That's a really interesting point. If those 2 players are *exactly* who he thinks they are, then it's absolutely defensible... but it's still not great value, is it? Plus the shelf life on a return man isn't great...

Yeah, it was a great movie. Have to sacrifice a bit of reality for movie drama.

Kinda refreshing, TBH. I wouldn't want a GM to live or die by what Kiper thinks.

That's bc literally anyone can make a mock. Guys like Kiper and Mcshay have to go off a mix of what they would do personally/who they like, rumors of what they have "heard" a team will do, team needs (good teams typically don't draft for need in rd1 imo although definitely happens), and "sources" which could be used as misdirection anyway.

Plus he's trying to be controversial to get eyeballs.

That was my favorite part too haha

Could you explain what a mock is?

There is one and they actually did win it this year lmaooo