lynchmobb34
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Ken Dorsey has a weak arm. How do we know? Lots of NFL scouts have told us so. The league certainly believes its own rhetoric, ignoring Dorsey in the draft until the 49ers selected him in the seventh round. That's borderline free-agent territory, strange land for a guy who is 6-4 and 208 (quality measurables, folks) and barely lost a game as a starter for one of the country's premier college programs.
Maybe I can halfway believe that Brad Banks, another college quarterback hero, isn't truly NFL stuff despite a luminous senior season at Iowa. Banks is 5-11 and not particularly accurate, and those traits produce more interceptions than touchdowns in Paul Tagliabue's game.
But Dorsey? I just don't get it. He wasn't merely diminished by pro scouts, he was shredded. Forget his production. Forget his aptitude to win. Forget his size, his intelligence, his leadership skills. The NFL virtually has.
We rush to hand out draft grades before we have a clue whether any of these players really are as good, or as bad, as the pros want us to believe. Teams frequently are guessing, and then they are telling us how Johnny One-Talent was just the guy they wanted, and they couldn't believe he still was available when their turn came.
Give 'em all A's. No mistakes are ever, ever made on draft day.
I don't buy it. I don't buy Ken Dorsey being the 241st player selected in this draft, behind a bungling horde of no-names and reaches and hardly-have-a-chance prospects who can't come close to matching the plus he has over almost everyone chosen in this draft: performance.
It has to count for something. He has won, and don't tell me it was because of everyone else on that talented Miami team. Someone still had to read the defense and put the pass on target. Go to an NFL minicamp and watch veteran quarterbacks throw under no pressure against half-speed defenses, and count how many of those passes are inaccurate. You'll need more than two hands. Hitting a moving object is never easy; doing it under pressure takes skill. Doing it at Dorsey's level is worth more than a seventh-round cup of coffee.
I want Dorsey to make it big in the NFL. I want him to expose a draft that is conducted too late in the spring, that includes far too much analysis, that has become twisted by Combine results and private workouts and rumors and rushes to incorrect judgments.
It's simple with Dorsey. He can play. That, ultimately, should count the most, whether it is the NFL or Pop Warner.
this is from a staff writer at sporting news,for some reason his name was deleted,but i for one agree with alot of what he said,does anyone else feel the same?
Maybe I can halfway believe that Brad Banks, another college quarterback hero, isn't truly NFL stuff despite a luminous senior season at Iowa. Banks is 5-11 and not particularly accurate, and those traits produce more interceptions than touchdowns in Paul Tagliabue's game.
But Dorsey? I just don't get it. He wasn't merely diminished by pro scouts, he was shredded. Forget his production. Forget his aptitude to win. Forget his size, his intelligence, his leadership skills. The NFL virtually has.
We rush to hand out draft grades before we have a clue whether any of these players really are as good, or as bad, as the pros want us to believe. Teams frequently are guessing, and then they are telling us how Johnny One-Talent was just the guy they wanted, and they couldn't believe he still was available when their turn came.
Give 'em all A's. No mistakes are ever, ever made on draft day.
I don't buy it. I don't buy Ken Dorsey being the 241st player selected in this draft, behind a bungling horde of no-names and reaches and hardly-have-a-chance prospects who can't come close to matching the plus he has over almost everyone chosen in this draft: performance.
It has to count for something. He has won, and don't tell me it was because of everyone else on that talented Miami team. Someone still had to read the defense and put the pass on target. Go to an NFL minicamp and watch veteran quarterbacks throw under no pressure against half-speed defenses, and count how many of those passes are inaccurate. You'll need more than two hands. Hitting a moving object is never easy; doing it under pressure takes skill. Doing it at Dorsey's level is worth more than a seventh-round cup of coffee.
I want Dorsey to make it big in the NFL. I want him to expose a draft that is conducted too late in the spring, that includes far too much analysis, that has become twisted by Combine results and private workouts and rumors and rushes to incorrect judgments.
It's simple with Dorsey. He can play. That, ultimately, should count the most, whether it is the NFL or Pop Warner.
this is from a staff writer at sporting news,for some reason his name was deleted,but i for one agree with alot of what he said,does anyone else feel the same?
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