NFL Combine Interviews
Feb27
on February 27, 2016
at 12:01 am
It’s Combine time! I can’t wait for all the mock drafts next week with all the new info! I love the 40 yard dash, it feels very relevant to how football works. Same with the standing long jump. These are things you see in football games all the time. I love watching TEs take off all their pads and run straight forwards unobstructed. I love seeing linebackers blitz by standing still and then jumping. The Combine is incredibly useful and people who spend their whole weekend watching it are using their valuable time on this earth wisely.
I enjoy the Combine. Not because it’s Football-like, but because it’s kind of a mini-Olympics that’s done with in a weekend instead of occupying my news feeds for months on end for no purpose.
I like the combine because it’s the only time I will ever see a 300-pound man run at world-class speeds. Plus watching freak-of-nature athletes compete in feats of strength and athleticism is a hell of a lot more entertaining than reading a thousand sports bloggers with no real qualification or knowledge beyond watching their favorite team tell me why prospect X from their alma mater is great and prospect Y from their alma mater’s rival actually sucks.
GO BUCKEYES!!!!!!!
BUCKEYES STINK
GO NOTRE DAME
So is Bosa the next Gronk, with his primal instinct to destroy?
I was thinking gronk’s little bro but that’ll do
Welp, time to unfreeze Mel Kiper.
Dari Nowkhah is in for one hell of a shock. Who the hell has been cohosting with him at weekends?
“Can’t teach speed”. Are you Mike Mayock now Dave?
It’s really stupid to watch, but yesterday while i was working at home it came on…and i watched it all day. There’s something almost relaxing about watching it. Everyone’s quiet the whole time, and the commentors talk like it’s golf. Meanwhile a 300lb lineman is running as fast as he can.
I enjoy the drills more than anything, but I like watching it because of how much it does influence draft decisions.
I was kinda sad about the last draft. Most players were busts except for Todd Gurley and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (Whos name i still chuckle at to this day)
There is so much wrong with this statement I don’t even know where to begin.
WHAT!? First Ha-Ha Clinton-Dix was in the 2014 draft. Second the 2015 draft had 5 Pro Bowlers as rookies, but even if it didn’t you can’t say that they were mostly busts from only one season of play. By that standard Peyton Manning was a bust.
He’s definitely wrong about the 2015 sucking but lets not point to Pro Bowls as a metric of quality. Winston didn’t deserve the pro bowl and only made it due to severe drop outs. He was far from a bust however.
1. Jameis Winston – I hate Winston but he had a good rookie year. Not amazing, but good to build on. Definitely not what I would call a bust.
2. Marcus Mariota – See above, minus me hating him because I don’t hate Mariota.
3. Dante Fowler – Dude tore his ACL first day of minicamp. You can’t predict that, and given how well players have come back from ACLs, I’d hardly count him as a bust yet.
4. Amari Cooper – 1,070 yards and 72 receptions ≠ bust.
5. Brandon Scherff – While he was overmatched for the early part of the year, he caught on by midseason. He’s not a Zack Martin-style young stud, but his emergence had a lot to do with Kirk Cousins stabilizing.
6. Leonard Williams – He hasn’t put up big sack numbers, but he’s been stout against the run, and his woes getting to the QB come in part from the Jets switching to more 4-3 defensive fronts to take advantage of all their linemen, where they use him as a DT, where his job is to eat blockers. They had the league’s #1 running D, he’s not a slam-dunk, but he’s been good.
7. Kevin White – Just like Fowler, injured during camp, never played. Not his fault, and calling him a bust from one injury is silly.
8. Vic Beasley – First real arguable disappointment here. I’d argue that a lot of it is because there’s nobody else in Atlanta so he gets all the attention, but you can debate it.
9. Ereck Flowers – I didn’t watch many Giants games, so I’ll defer to Dave on whether or not he’s any good.
10. Todd Gurley – No explanation needed.
That’s just the top ten too.
Even as a Bucs fan, I’m not sold on Winston yet. His first year was better than expected, and a nice surprise. But the offense is loaded and set to give him comfort. Especially with Mike Evans, I wonder how long they’ll be able to afford him.
Flowers was good. Not great, he had some issues because he was really raw, but he played out of position with a foot injury most of the year and performed adequately enough for the pick to seem fine. A huge plus is he’s already a huge positive locker room influence, he’s a leader on the field and he’s smart. As long as his injuries don’t keep him down I think his ceiling is extremely high and he could develop into a real solid starter for years.
1. What busts?
2.Clinton-Dix was drafted in 2014, not 2015.
One of the only reasons I watch the combine is to watch Rich Eisen’s slow butt run the forty along with guys like Sheldon Richardson (300+ Pounds)
#RunRichRun
Dave, go ahead and tag “Jaguars” to this Joey Bosa DP.
Dallas picks before Jacksonville
combine is just a way for people to judge a man before they even know him
I can’t wait to see Joey Bosa mutilate quarterbacks
Let us all have a moment of silence for Rich’s last 40-yard dash.