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I binged the entire series some years back on Netflix. It's one of my favorites. R.I.P. Roger Mosley. -
I get so frustrated when anyone brings up the combine and factoring it into their draft thoughts, I genuinely think it's pointless, and if anything, hurts more than it helps. I couldn't give a damn how fast you are running in a straight line in your underwear, I don't care what you weigh or bench press, I don't care how high you can jump two footed from a non moving position and slap some sticks. None of those things directly translate to the field, none of them are even the same once you put pads on. It would be like testing NHL players slap shots while wearing shoes and standing on a hardwood floor instead of skates and on ice (bad example, but I think the combine is so flawed that it's hard to come up with good metaphors). Players can "fudge" their combine results by spending the 3 months leading into the combine solely focusing on specific combine testing. Whether it's someone like Bryce last year, who clearly put on a bunch of bad temporary weight so they could alleviate a particular concern of teams (and then doesn't do physical tests because they know they'll struggle due to the weight). Or the guy who spends hours every day perfecting their getting out of the blocks technique to improve their 40 time to change teams opinions of them as there is nothing about it that then translates to the actual game. Sure, it can show their work ethic, but in the end, it still doesn't translate to an NFL game. And if they don't spend the time on that because they're too busy working on their actual craft of being a WR, then it doesn't tell you they have a bad work ethic when their time struggles either. If you have 3 years of video evidence of a player doing something, why would them running a 4.9 or a 5.3 40 time change what you think of that player, when in the end, all that could come down to was how good that player was at firing out of the blocks and getting up to speed from a position no football player lines up in? If you have years of tape of an OL throwing players around, but they struggle to put up great numbers in a traditional bench press, why are you then going to down grade them when there is no time in a football game that you are lying down on your back and seeing how much dead weight you can push straight up over and over again. Decades ago, before every college game had a stupid amount of cameras so you can see every rep of every player from multiple angles, I can see how it would have been beneficial. But not anymore, I think too many teams are putting too much weight into the combine and it shows when all they do is pick high RAS guys who don't pan out (hello Carolina Panthers). This whole argument has nothing to do with my guy, but I have seen so many people say they need to see T-Mac's 40 time to know if they'd like him at 8 or not. To be that's such a baffling thing, you've seen his tape, you either like him or you don't, him running 0.3 of a second faster or slower for something that is only about 5 seconds, from a non football starting position, shouldn't change your feelings towards him one way or the other. -
By Anybodyhome · Posted
Lol... can't watch this anymore. If they stage some miraculous comeback, I'll watch the highlights tomorrow. But I'm not holding my breath.
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