The SB Nation NFL Show Inside the Draft Room with 3x Super Bowl Champion Scott Pioli
Apr 27, 2022
31:19
What's it like inside a draft room during the big event? What's the toughest part of scouting players and getting past the bull? Rob "Stats" Guerrera sits down with former Executive of the Year Scott Pioli to answer that and more in SB Nation's Inside the Draft Room.
- What is the toughest part of draft preparation? (1:59)
- How do you get past the bias of your own staff? (3:32)
- How battles within a team can lead to errors in prospect evaluation (6:34)
- Do teams still argue about who to pick during the draft itself? (8:39)
- One Patriots coach who put the team above all else, even when he disagreed with the pick (9:31)
- How he overheard his own coaches throwing him under the bus after a draft meeting (10:54)
- How is the draft room set up? (14:15)
- What happens when you're just about to go on the clock? (16:58)
- Why the draft is a lot like a game of poker (19:17)
- How changing the format of the draft changed things for GMs (22:59)
- What do GMs do after a draft is over? (24:41)
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