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You've got to read this(49ers drafting policy)

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Reports say that Mike Singletary and the Niners won't draft Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford because he was reluctant to talk to a team psychologist about his parent's divorce. Said Singletary:
"If you're going to look at drafting a guy in the first round, and you're going to pay him millions of dollars, and asking him about a divorce about his parents, if that's going to be an issue, uhhh, then you know what, maybe he doesn't belong here."
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Let me get this straight: A 21-year old doesn't want to talk to some stranger about his parent's divorce? Inconceivable! Such a reaction surely portends NFL mediocrity!
Honestly, that's an utterly bizarre quote from Singletary. The 49ers have to do their due diligence in researching the backgrounds of draft picks, but what does not wanting to talk about a traumatic childhood event have to do with leading a football team?
The concern about psychology is especially strange coming from Singletary, who attempted to motivate his team last year by dropping his pants before giving a half-time speech. I'm pretty sure he got that idea from Freud.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...tafford-because-he-won-t-open-?urn=nfl,151562
 
For $50 million dollars I'll talk to them about anything they want to know....even about the time forged my principal's signature on a disciplinary slip in high school....
 
Thats pretty personal, and I don't really see what it has to do with playing football..
 
I understand why he did not want to go into details with a stranger and non-professional like Singeltary, but why would he evade the team psychologist who is trained in this field?
 
I think it has more to do with Stafford showing unwillingness to participate, not necessarily about the divorce. I wouldn't draft a guy that high unless he was willing to do everything the team asked.
 
they don't really care about his parent's divorce. they wanted to get a reaction out of Stafford. they wanted to see how he handles pressure. apparently he didn't respond the way they hoped.
 
rent this space said:
they don't really care about his parent's divorce. they wanted to get a reaction out of Stafford. they wanted to see how he handles pressure. apparently he didn't respond the way they hoped.
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Exactly...

If you expect me to pay you that much money up front...you better bring me pair of your moms underwear if I ask you to.....
 
the amazing thing is that no one prepared Stafford for it. it's typical stuff done by most teams.
 
Screw that. Singletary is way out of line. Even more so by talking about it in public. WAY the eff out of line.

The 49ers psychologist didn't ask him that question with the intention of helping him get through any issues that might be associated with it, or with any kind of benevolent intentions whatsoever. Therefore, it was none of their goddamned business.

And if they're going to make a drafting decision based on something like that, that is THEIR idiocy. Ultimately, remember...when a team decides to pass on a player that ends up being really good, it is primarily THEIR loss. They're going to pay for it more than the player will, if the player ends up a good player. They'll pay for it because at the end of the day if the 49ers are trying to get by with Alex Smith at Quarterback and the owner comes to talk to the GM and HC about why they've had losing seasons for the last three seasons or so, with no answer to the QB question in sight...tell me why again did you pass on Matt Stafford, seeing as he's going to the Pro Bowl this year? And if their answer is, we asked him about a messy and painful childhood divorce and he didn't want to talk about it...well, I'd have them escorted off the premises right then and there, if I were the owner.

Besides, they pick #10. They won't have the option of passing on Matt Stafford.
 
What $50 million? This is the 49ers. They pick #10 in the draft. They're not paying their pick #50 million. And the value of the 49ers picking Stafford is only represented by how much MORE he would get for being taken at #10, as opposed to #11 or wherever he ended up going.

So yeah, I'd have told them to go **** themselves too.
 
Last year the #10 pick in the draft was Jerod Mayo. He got a $19 million contract with $13 million guaranteed.

So again, what $50 million?

IF Stafford fell to #10, which is one big IF...then falling from #10 to #11 would only cost him what, like a million bucks over five or six years? Not even that?

Again, I'd have told the 49ers where they can stick their #10 pick if they insisted we talk about something like that.
 
Well apparently they asked him if he felt like he had "unfinished buisness"....who knows how they interpreted that...

These psych exams are quite strange no matter what job you're interviewing for....I've had to take them for a nuclear security clearance for the NRC...

Consisted of 567 of the absolute strangest questions I've ever seen...

They tell me that you can go in one day and pass it...go in the very next day and fail the same test...it just depends...
 
TedSlimmJr said:
Well apparently they asked him if he felt like he had "unfinished buisness"....who knows how they interpreted that...

These psych exams are quite strange no matter what job you're interviewing for....I've had to take them for a nuclear security clearance for the NRC...

Consisted of 567 of the absolute strangest questions I've ever seen...

They tell me that you can go in one day and pass it...go in the very next day and fail the same test...it just depends...
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On what ....... how much drink you consume before the test ??:chuckle:
 
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