The #1 Pick in the AFL Draft is the football off-season’s most treasured commodity, but by how much should we really value it over the picks that follow? As a near-religious spectator of the AFL as well as it’s accompanying digital landscape, it feels to me as though every football off-season is marked with a sensational shift in the tone of the broader AFL media. Throughout the season the headline writers tend to routinely dish up a main course consisting of endless chastising of underperforming sides, while only leaving enough room for an easily forgotten side salad of praise for those at the top of their game. From what I’ve…