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Originally Posted by JAFF
How was TY Hiltons numbers? Tape is more important than numbers. Players make PLAYS. All that other nonsense is for reporters and idiots on line.
Who here thought Darius Leonard was the steal of the draft? All that guy did was make plays. Plays like his hair’s on fire. Ther isnt a score for that. Its the eye test.
People in Indy wanted Ricky Williams and couldnt believe Polian took Edge. Polian and Ballard both know how to use the eye test. They know what a ball player looks like without a cone test
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Of course the film study is important, but it, like everything else, can be misleading. If evaluating talent was an exact science where you just needed to follow a formula of putting in X hours of film study on a player, no GM would ever get fired and no all pro or pro bowler would ever be drafted later than early round 2. A great example of this is Tremaine Edmunds. If you just watched his film, you saw a slow, plodding MLB who would be lucky to make it as a 34 ILB thumper in the NFL (because that's what I saw when just watching the film). Then you look at the measurables, he's 6'5" 250, runs a 4.54 40, and is only 19(!) at the time of the draft. Given that context, it becomes clearer that at 19 with very little football experience, what looked like a lack of speed was more likely a lack of experience properly diagnosing and reading a play, and given the right coaching staff, he would be the best clay any LB coach could ever ask for to mold and become a star. Sure enough, he made the Pro Bowl at 21, his second year starting in the NFL.