After hanging up the phone, Lu Yiqi turned around and returned the phone to Reed. The two did not mention Dawkins' incident, as if there was really nothing happened to Dawkins. Instead, Reed asked Lu Yiqi about the gains of inspecting rookies all the way, and Lu Yiqi also generously shared the information.

Reed looked at Lu Yiqi who was growing rapidly in front of him, and then a little relieved appeared in his eyes, and then reminded him with concern, "I know you can handle it, but be careful, the accidents in the draft are always uncontrollable. You cannot fully control Thompson, and you cannot control other team managers, so you need to prepare for a lot of hands."

Lu Yiqi must admit that he did not really pay attention to Reed's words. He thought he understood the meaning of Reed's words, but he still despised them.

Even though he was a human being in two lives and had seen countless draft conferences, watching and participating were different things. He still underestimated the elusiveness of people's hearts and the intricacies of drafts. The hard salary cap is just a simple number, but in addition to the numbers, there are many things that may affect the draft.

For example, the halo of fame and fortune.

...

After leaving Atlanta, Lu Yiqi continued to inspect his rookie journey and sowed a series of seeds in the free agent market in advance. After the Indianapolis training camp ended, the craze of the draft finally began to become noisy one after another. From professional analysis to simulated drafts, countless news was buzzing.

The Green Bay Packers, like the other 31 teams, have officially entered the mock draft.

The team's draft preparations are two completely different things from the draft analysis of other professionals. Professionals start to look forward from the overall situation, while the team is based on themselves to evaluate.

Each team has different evaluations of rookies. What they evaluate is whether the rookie's strengths can strengthen the team, and whether his weaknesses are acceptable to the team, is his value to the team in the first round, second round or third round? How much pressure is under for the salary cap? It is worth the fare.

It is also based on such evaluation? The team has its own draft war room, and on the board directly in front of the combat room? A huge blackboard is listed? This blackboard is the team's highest-level secret, and the draft strategy summarized based on thousands of evaluation materials.

On the blackboard? According to the offensive group and the defensive group, there is basically no special service group area. If there is a special service group requirement? Then signs will be made on the desk alone? Then list them horizontally according to the position of the court. For example, on the blackboard of the Green Bay Packers' war room, from left to right:

quarterback, running back, wide receiver, center, offensive tackle, offensive guard, tight end.

Defensive tackle, defensive end, linebacker, defensive back.

After listing the list of different positions horizontally, the draft picks from the first to the seventh round vertically? Then form a quadrant table? Put the team's name after careful consideration in each grid.

Of course, there are also some considerations about how to place the name of a rookie.

Generally speaking, it is not uncommon for the first round draft to prepare at least three candidates, and as many as seven. Then the second round, third round, etc. often have at least five candidates? The order of the color is marked, for example, red is the first choice? Then green is the second choice... and so on, do a lot of preparations? When the choice you reserved is chosen by your competitors in advance, the team must enter the alternative? The second, third, fourth choice, etc.

When the draft is in progress? Each team has ten minutes to think? The league official announced that "the first pick starts to time the Detroit Lions are in time", and the team must complete the choice within the countdown range - in fact, teams including the Minnesota Vikings, the Baltimore Ravens, the New York Jets and other teams have made timeout mistakes.

Once the team is timed out and cannot complete the draft within ten minutes, it will be judged as a foul, and the draft pick will automatically be taken over by the next pick. After the team's draft is completed, the team that had previously fouled the draft will make a choice.

Simply put, within ten minutes, the team needs to complete huge thinking and calculations. Which rookie to choose or trade their draft picks for greater benefits. This arithmetic problem is not that easy, so the draft with 32 picks in the first round often takes four hours or even more.

Since the Indianapolis training camp ended, Lu Yiqi returned to Green Bay, and the entire coaching staff has put all firepower into the draft.

From the beginning of the first round to the seventh round, Lu Yiqi must cooperate with Thompson to fill the quadrant coordinate tables on the war room blackboard one by one. The heavy and complicated work keeps Green Bay fully focused, while the turbulent free agent market has nothing to do with them.

Time seemed to have slipped through the gaps between the fingers before I could pay attention, and then... the 2009 season draft officially kicked off.

On April 25, early in the morning, Lu Yiqi's biological clock woke up early, with a little nervousness and excitement, even more excited than the Super Bowl finale, and jogging all the way towards the team's office building.

The Green Bay was filled with thin mist in the early morning, and the residents of Green Bay waved to Lu Yiqi in a friendly and kind manner.

"Coach, it's up to you today."

"No matter who we choose, we believe in you."

"Coach, let's enhance our offensive front line. Aaron needs better pocket protection."

"Coach, it's just as early today."

"How is it, coach, do you have any plans? Disclose it."

The bustling voice was filled with enthusiasm, and it extended all the way to the destination with Lu Yiqi's footsteps. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and arrived at his office. He packed up the information and prepared to go to the war room. However, he didn't expect that someone knocked on the office door and poked his head out and was Thompson's assistant. "Coach, Mr. Thompson invites you to his office."

"Okay, I'll go there right away." Lu Yiqi nodded, first went to the war room to put down all his information, and then walked towards the team manager's office. The lively crowds coming and going could feel the tension and busy atmosphere early, and their walking steps seemed extremely busy.

"Knock," Lu Yiqi knocked on Thompson's office door, but the door was not closed. Hearing Thompson's "come in", he pushed the door and walked in. At a glance, he could see Thompson's eyebrows jumping, and his expression of joy and excitement overflowed without any concealment.

"Aqi, Archie Archie, come here, ha, let me tell you a good news, haha, we have the second pick, we need to change the draft strategy."

What?
Chapter completed!