YouTube Monday: Draft Dodging
ESPN’s draft coverage this year was not good. They didn’t do a good job analyzing picks, they ignored most of the later rounds, and they ruined all of the suspense by showing who was getting drafted before the commissioner had a chance to make the call.
One humorous thing they did do was hook up former Texas Wide Receiver Quan Cosby, predicted to be a later round draft pick, with reporter Erin Andrews and comedian Bill Cosby (no relation). It was a cute idea at first, with Bill pretending to fall asleep and offering Quan advice like, “There’s always Canadian Football.
But things got a little uncomfortable as the draft wore on and Cosby wasn’t drafted. In fact, he wasn’t drafted, even with the Mr. Irrelevant pick.