Kiper: Nothing 'pressing' for Panthers

[Kyle82]

You know ESPN has to have people on there that you love to hate. :co:

[Panthro]

Kiper knows his college players and can be quite informative from that perspective....now when it comes to translating that knowledge to NFL team needs and strategy thats where he fails

[Fox007]

I don't consider many if anyone that works at ESPN an "expert".

And that includes all sports and shows.

[Jangler]

Kenny Mayne is an expert at funny.

[monstercat]

I don't consider many if anyone that works at ESPN an "expert".

And that includes all sports and shows.

Eh...I wouldn't quite go that far. I really value the opinion of Jaws when it comes to QB's. Really, they're not any worse than some of the people at the NFL Network.

[Fireball77]

Kiper knows his college players and can be quite informative from that perspective....now when it comes to translating that knowledge to NFL team needs and strategy thats where he fails

Yeah that's a good way to put it.

Ask him what punter is coming out from bohunk state and he knows who and the vitals.

Ask him who in the NFL needs a punter? Not so much.

[frash.exe]

What exactly did Mel Kiper do before he became a "draft guru"? Anybody know?

i'm willing to put money on hair product enthusiast.

[Fox007]

Eh...I wouldn't quite go that far. I really value the opinion of Jaws when it comes to QB's. Really, they're not any worse than some of the people at the NFL Network.

I mainly listen to the ex-players, and out of those, only the ones that were actually worth a poo.

No one cares what Tim Hasselbeck has to say for example, hes a scrub.

Then again yea, the NFL Network has the Falcons as 2008 NFCS champions........just wow.

[monstercat]

As big as the draft coverage is nowadays, they really need to hire one draft guru for each conference.

[Fireball77]

Ex players aren't always the best at judging talent either (just like they are usually ish head coaches). Mayock is an ex-player who was kind of a scrub type guy, but he knows his ish.

[17+89=6]

Kiper knows his college players and can be quite informative from that perspective....now when it comes to translating that knowledge to NFL team needs and strategy thats where he fails

Anyone knows about college players as long as you watch them. He has access to everything. You give a lot of people all of that access, and they could do his job as well. All he can do is get on ESPN and yell at McShay about how wrong he is all the time. I tend to agree with Todd more, but that may be because Mel is annoying.

[Fox007]

Yeah that's a good way to put it.

Ask him what punter is coming out from bohunk state and he knows who and the vitals.

Ask him who in the NFL needs a punter? Not so much.

Right but anyone can do that, if they did it and researched it as a full time job.

Plus those guys have a lot of resources to work with, and other people in their ear.(such as statics,history etc)

The hardest part is the actual Charisma needed to convey the information, and make it interesting for people to view.

Football is easy to know and understand, and easy to tell who is good and what is good, and even why.

Playing it is the hard part, at least playing it at a high level is.

[Delhommey]

It's so funny the little spats the ESPN guys have to determine who the draft guru is over there.

Meanwhile Mike Mayock at NFL Network quietly kicks their ass every year.

[Fireball77]

Football is easy to know and understand, and easy to tell who is good and what is good, and even why.

Well I am really, REALLY stupid then (not as stupid as Snyderrato or Jerrah though...lol).