— Marshon Lattimore (@shonrp2) May 1, 2018
— Michael Thomas (@Cantguardmike) May 1, 2018 — Michael Thomas (@Cantguardmike) May 1, 2018 Never will I ever fall into the NFL's offseason trap of getting worked up over the outcome of a poll take amongst players that likely had very little interest in putting anything more than a passing thought into the order in which they selected their Top 100 peers. Not only is it nothing more than a cheap way to get people to debate football during the time of year in which football, not-so-coincidentally, couldn't be less newsworthy, but whatever biased, idiotic arguments might ensue are dependent upon the idea that professionally athletes are putting hours of painstaking research into doing the NFL Network's job for them. That's why I always find myself confused when players take offense, seeing as I highly doubt even those that are made mad by the results were happy to closely analyze every single roster in nonsensically judging players with insanely different skill sets against one another. That being said, I do appreciate that two of players who did take offense happen to be New Orleans Saints. Michael Thomas and Marshon Lattimore might be wasting their energy in getting annoyed by something so meaningless, but if it manifests itself in motivation then who am I to question their frustrations. The 81st and 82nd ranking is definitely too high for a first year and second year player that dramatically altered their team's fortunes on both sides of the ball, but that still puts them puts them in pretty exclusive company. The idea that being slotted in the Top 5-10 players at their position registers as a huge insult to two studs who only stand to improve upon their rookie and sophomore seasons is good news for Saints' fans, and bad news for the rest of the league. Therefore, you won't catch me telling them that the source of that unintended disrespect is quite possibly the most preposterously meaningless practice that currently exists in sports.
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