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How Could People Be So Wrong
Topic Started: Sep 23 2009, 06:06 PM (401 Views)
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Stars don't mean squat. This is evidence that those ratings were tampered with.

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Burton said that Crompton would remind fans of Andy Kelly. Well, I guess they both wear/wore #8.

I would love to have an Andy Kelly type on the roster this year...
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Ryan Leaf. Tony Mandarich. Tim Couch. Akili Smith. And so on.

People whose very livelihoods are dependent on making the right decision screw up and screw up badly.

At least with a high school kid you really never know what you're getting. By the time these players graduate college you should --- in theory --- know if they have what it takes.

What did all the so-called experts not see in Joe Montana and Tom Brady that they did see in Leaf and Smith?

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Ryan Leaf. Tony Mandarich. Tim Couch. Akili Smith. And so on.

People whose very livelihoods are dependent on making the right decision screw up and screw up badly.

At least with a high school kid you really never know what you're getting. By the time these players graduate college you should --- in theory --- know if they have what it takes.

What did all the so-called experts not see in Joe Montana and Tom Brady that they did see in Leaf and Smith?

Dat be true. The NFL screws up in its evaluations of QB's every bit as much as the High School evaluators do. Problem is that the NFL guys have another 4-5 years of observations and maturity to see and they still screw the pooch more times than they do.

Take the Vince Young, Matt Leinhart, and Jay Cutler class. All were drafted in the top 11 or so. None of them have become even mediocre QB's and only Cutler seems to even have a prayer of being a decent QB.

Shuler, Leaf, Jeff George,Akili Smith, Couch, Alex Smith, Mike Vick, etc are all Top 10 picks in recent years who have sucked donkey turds. IMO the NFL guys screw up even more than Rivals does on QB's and the NFL has the advantage of an older guy to evaluate and a ton of time in one on one evaluations.
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It is HARD to play QB in the NFL. Of the 32 starting QBs in the NFL, only about 20 of them are pretty good to real good. The rest are there because there's no one better. This is why you see 40 year old guys like FaVray, Collins, and Warner still in the league, and a demand for them. It's the toughest position to play in professional sports, IMO.

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Uh Charles Woodson anyone?
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This is why you see 40 year old guys like FaVray, Collins, and Warner still in the league, and a demand for them.


Of course, when Warner was coming out of college, nobody wanted him.

Like Brady, Warner got a chance only because of an injury to the regular starting QB.

Even when teams sign these players they STILL can't evaluate them well enough to know that they should be starting. How does that happen?

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Player evaluation is not an exact science. Hard to measure a guy's heart and resolve.


Edited by IndianVol, Sep 25 2009, 12:20 PM.
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