INDIANAPOLIS — I’ve had several people ask me why haven’t I been writing about the NFL Combine? It’s in town this week like it always is this time of year. Every NFL executive, owner and coach is in the building but most importantly, all of the potential draftees are here. If you’re a football junky it’s the place to be right?
They parade the players in in their underwear, poke and prod them like slaves, put them through a battery of insulting interviews etc. We’ve all heard the stories of cats asking players about whether their mother’s were strippers or drug dealers etc. like that makes the player a stripper or drug dealer. Crazy right? They ask these players stuff that has absolutely nothing with the game of football and their to play the game.
They’ve got these kids doing drills that have nothing to do with them being able to play the game or not. I was glad to see Ohio State’s Chase Young check a reporter for asking him why he wasn’t going to work out at the Combine.
First of all, he’s the best draft prospect in the entire draft and by far the best athlete coming out. There isn’t a drill he can do that’s going to change his draft status. Ole boy broke it down like this.
“Me and my team, we decided that, because the first day of (training) camp when I step on to the field, I want to be the best player I can be. I don’t want to waste time being a Combine athlete.”
In other words in his Jay Graves voice, “I ain’t bout to waste my time fooling around with duns that are going to draft me anyway. I’ve got better things to do playa. Pay me my money and then I’ll work out all you want.”
Unless you’re a bubble cat that needs the exposure you can get at the Combine it’s a complete waste of time for any big time player to break a sweat. There’s enough film on them to know whether the dun can play or not.
Have you seen the foolishness surrounding Joe Burrow’s hand size this week? Ole boy torched every major college football program in America this year on the biggest stages. He won the Heisman running away and led his team to the national title and we’re talking about his hands not being big enough? This is stupid!!!!
Then you get into the ignorant Wonderlic Test that makes complete fools out of the players. The results are posted and there’s always this nonsense of some player scoring really low on it to make him look stupid when the freakin’ teams are going to draft him anyway. So what’s the freakin’ point?
Have you ever tried to sit and watch the Combine on television or been able to see it in person? After about 5 minutes you’re ready to pull your darn hair out along with you small intestine.
There are typically 330 players invited to the Combine every year. Not all of them will work out but the vast majority of them will. Shout out again to Chase Young for keepin’ it real and not wasting his time.
So for instance, you have the running backs group working out and there may be, oh say, 25 of them. You’ve got to sit and watch 25 cats do the same drill and they’re doing like 8 different drills too. Then multiply that by another 10 positions.
What nerd wants to sit through that for the next 4 days? It’s terrible!!! Naw playa, I’m cool on that. About the only thing I want to see is who had the fastest 40-time of the week and you can just tell me about that. A complete waste of time.
And please don’t argue with me about it being great for TV because the NFL Network is selling this foolishness to you. After 5-minutes it’s the same thing for the rest of the day. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Couldn’t agree more. I haven’t followed football seriously since the Rams and Cardinals demonstrated to me that the cities that supports led them didn’t matter as much as new stadia and big egos. That said, I caught a glimpse while at the airport (QBs & receivers) and thought the same thing. My initial thought was, “so what – this is like 2-a-days in the summer. Doesn’t matter until you pad up and go.” And hen I thought, “they’re showing stats & highlights on these guys from their careers. How much more info do they need?” Then I thought (noticing most of them are black), “they’re being paraded as if in a slave sale.” And to your point, all of those thoughts occurred in about a minute, after which, I was done with it.
Good call my friend.