Combine results should simply reinforce the opinions the scouting staff have already established of a player.
Combine results work best for guys who are expected to go at the bottom of the draft or not get drafted at all. If no one knows who you are and you pull off something amazing, like a great 40 or a shit-ton of bench reps for your position, you're going to get noticed and some more teams are going to start looking at your film and your technique. Unfortunately, there are still people out there in front offices who look at stats and combine results and make decisions like drafting Gholston.
If wish I could believe that. How else do you explain the trade to move up, and subsequent Dewayne Robertson pick? Wasn't he another riser due to combine glory?
pre tannenbaum. Plus we were in desperate need of a DT, Sean Evans was going to be suspended for a huge chunk of the season and we were going to be left with nothing there. So they went up to go get Robertson. I still remember wishing the Texans passed on Johnson, because I was really hoping we were going to grab him...
Good. FYP. Bradway was huge on panic moves. Dewayne, Nugent, Jolley, Miller and Thomas were all picked because he and Herm shit themselves.
Sorry, I don't have a link. Petros Papadakis (an SC alum and Mays hip hater) interviewed him at the Pro Day and spoke about it on air. I also heard from people I know who were on field for Pro Day and work in training that Thurman wasn't the only one hugely unimpressed by Mays' fluidity.
Bucknasty, what can I say about your avatar that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan? It looks bombed to Hell and depleted.
If you ask me Taylor Mays will be a very productive safety in this league and we will all regret not choosing him Sure he is a raw talent but he will be the next Darren Sharper in terms of play making Just give him 3 years
I think that leak about Mangini was kind of a copout. They 'anonymous source' named both Gholston and the Boar Hunter as Mangini picks and gave him zero credit for any other draft pick. That sounds more like scapegoating him to the fans than anything else.
That's a terrible comparison. Mays can't cover and certainly isn't a ballhawk. A MUCH better comparison would be Roy Williams. How has that turned out with the new NFL rules?
Actually, you know who I'd compare Taylor Mays to? Adam Archuleta. Archuleta had ridiculous athleticism and he could hit like a truck. ...too bad he couldn't cover. He had to retire early because of concussions.
I'm not saying that I believe he had nothing to do with any other pick. I would be willing to be that he was the impetus behind the trade up for Revis as well as the reason we went Tackle and Center in the '06 draft. Harris was a great pick which I'm sure he had a lot to do with. Still, his pattern of panic and dominance/whining like a three year old until he gets his way in the draft room is well established. The Eagles took Gocong out from under him and he freaked. The Jets were 25th in sacks in 2007 and he just needed to add a pass rusher. Look at what he did to Kokinas in Cleveland. You have a guy who learned at the feet of one of the greatest GMs in the modern era of the NFL and yet Mangini completely phased him out because he wasn't strong enough to tell him to to shut the fuck up. Yea, the quote is really biased but wasn't that a Cimi article it came from? If so then there's your answer on that one.
