Hah, me too!dead_poet wrote:
Ah. Okay.I suppose I have a hard time doing that, because I want the best player over the course of his career as opposed to the best prospect.
And then I'd say that at some point along the line, the real NFL scouts (not the espn talking heads) determined he wasn't actually an elite prospect or there was something negative enough about him that elite prospects usually don't have but you're right it's not really worth trying to decipher, just give me a good player!
Probably, but that's not always the case. We saw that with Shariff Floyd. Some were saying he should go #1 overall and he dropped to us with no injury or character concerns. Same with Harvin, AD, Moss, etc. (yes, these guys came with injury or character question marks, but the same could be said for Clowney). A guy like Clowney could easily drop to us at #8 after the year he's had and depending on how he performs at the combine and (perhaps just as importantly) during interviews.
lol yeah, that's really the bottom line. I think the most important thing about drafting a top prospect is that they probably have a little bit better of a chance to not just be a stud though, but to be perhaps the best to EVER play their position. That's certainly the case with AD and Megatron. Of course like I said, some guy in the 4th round might be the best player in THIS draft so it's not worth losing sleep over.
I think I'm getting where you're coming from, Mondry. It's hard to look at it from a purely prospective point of view when, as I mentioned earlier, I just want the guy that ends up being a stud, not just ranked as one.
