In some ways, NFL teams and those that control their fates are just like their youngest fans.
They engage in whimsical celebrations when overjoyed and yet are penalized when they go too far. When they’re bored during family gatherings on Thanksgiving, they go outside and throw a ball around. Once Turkey Day gives way to the Christmas season, they engage in writing lists and their most cherished, perhaps even delusional desires.
Unlike their juvenile counterparts, the late autumn lists formed by NFL teams don’t go to the North Pole. They instead try to keep things relatively close to the vest, though there are more resources than ever to allow gridiron civilians to draw their own conclusions and build both educated mock drafts and realistic free agency fantasies (on a completely unrelated note, don’t miss your chance to become a Jets X-Factor subscriber so as to use our offseason simulator).