How realistic is this movie

One of my biggest issues with the realism of this movie is the amount of emphasis it placed on Costner's character. In reality, teams have entire scouting departments forming a consensus on who to draft, rather than leaving it up to the last second whims of the General Manager. While the GM probably gets the final say in many cases, the scouts and coaches play a much bigger role than was depicted in the movie, not only with who to draft but also when it comes to trading picks. I don't think any NFL GM has the complete autonomy that Costner had in this movie.

as far as trading picks in the last 24 hours, yes this movie is very realistic. Teams make a ton of deals while they are on the clock.

The actual trades, not so much. 3 firsts for the 1st overall is believable. But 3 2nds for the 6th overall isnt. and 3 firsts to move up 1 spot is just silly, but it worked for the movie. usually teams dont take consecutive picks maybe next years but when you get to 3 years down the line, thats more like basketball

I am sorry, but most of the film is complete and utter nonsense. The first trade is realistic because it was similar to the Rams-Skins trade from a few yrs ago. The other 2 trades were science fiction as someone else pointed out. Especially the last one. Trading all those 1's and the kick returner just to move up one spot. Pure and utter BS.

The Cleveland GM would have been completely prepared on all the scenarios. The owner would not have said he wanted a splash the day of the draft. I would gather that he would make that known long before that time. Costner does all this digging on that QB on the day of the draft. Horse manure. If he was going to make the move to #1, he would have had this info long long long before the day of the draft. Utter fantasy. I also don't think teams call other teams to find out info on players they will draft?! What? Why would you help the other teams on their homework. I also don't think the dead coach's wife would have had that ceremony on the day of the draft. She knows the importance of the draft and she is making her son's life harder. Ludicrous.

I realize they have to spruce things up for this movie, but this is Fantasy Land. It would have worked better if the drama was spread out over a few months. Sure they would have to possibly change the name of the film, but it could have been more realistic and just as griping. After that first trade the movie just went downhill with endless ridiculous things.

The strategy is very real. Teams do trade picks in the last 24 hours, but the way it is portrayed in the film has never happened. There is the constant attempt at oneupsmanship that you saw in the movie, but it doesn't work often because most GM's are pro's who don't fall for it.

I'd honestly say that until the last 10-20 minutes, it was fairly realistic. Teams do make trades like the first one depicted (look at the RGIII trade), and I even bet GMs do make the mistake of going after players they haven't scouted thoroughly because they assumed they didn't have a shot at them once in awhile as well.

Where it really goes off the rails though is when Weaver used the #1 pick on Mack. That would NEVER happen in the real NFL. Even if he realized after the fact that the trade was a mistake and that Callahan secretly had "bust" written all over him, he'd never use that pick that way. He'd try to trade it, or he'd just use it to pick Callahan and then trade his rights later. But no GM is ballsy enough to make an awful trade like that, and then double down by using the pick on a player he could've gotten from his original spot. Because of course, he never could've predicted what would happen later with the teams sitting 2-5 all passing on him.

I would say majority of it is realistic, if it were unrealistic I don't think the NFL would allow it to be made and all the appearances such as Goodell wouldn't have happened.

This movie is a work of fiction while they still do have real life NFL teams that do exist in real life, but what I can tell you is that NFL teams can trade up or a pick. I will give you an example tonight is the first day of the 2016 draft, and the Chicago Bears traded up for the 9th pick, and they drafted a player with the name of Lenoard Floyd. But teams can trade draft picks if they can convince a team to trade picks with them.