Shortly after the draft, in what has become an annual tradition here on Blogging The Boys, we ask the BTB staff and members to commit to their pet cats for the season.
The “Pet Cat” is a Parcells-ism, a term Bill Parcells popularized in Dallas when he was the head coach for the Cowboys. The term initially referred to a prospect that a coach, scout or owner had taken a particular liking to, often based on little more than a whim, and that they would then try to draft, regardless of what the scouting consensus was.