Scottemojo":2tt7nn17 said:
LoneHawkFan":2tt7nn17 said:
So...two kids that have most likely been immortalized since they began playing sports at age 5 or 6, done with college (rules, structure) and make new buddies at the combine. They expend a bunch of emotional and physical energy...21 year olds...never had a job before that they didn't earn by their quality of play...trashing a hotel room shouldn't surprise any of us. Yeah its stupid. How long has it been since you guys hung out with testosterone-fueled 21-yr olds that basically have no rules? Me neither.
Who's more stupider...these kids? Or people that say things like "If I had a couple million dollar carrots dangling in front of me, I'd be a perfect little choirboy." Do you have any clue how many times these guys have made mistakes that were brushed under the rug? Me neither, but I'd say its quite a few.
They trashed a hotel room. That's really news?
One of them was a projected first rounder, so yeah, it's news. Ryan Mallett, in the weeks before the draft, missed a meeting with a team but was seen out partying the night before. He ended up in the middle of the third round even though most thought he had first round talent. That stupidity on a job interview potentially cost him millions of dollars.
The combine is a 3 day interview for a very real job. If your parents, agent, and common sense can't convince you that you need to be on good behavior, then you will lose money.
Of course it is news.
I apologize for not getting back sooner, but I like this topic.
I guess what I was getting at with my post is that this behavior is- and should be- expected. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often- this kind of thing. Maybe it does and we just don't hear about it because it doesn't involve a potential 1st rounder. How do we
know Kam Chancellor didn't trash
his hotel room?
It doesn't surprise me in the least, nor does it bother me really. I'm sure there are plenty of kids that will get drafted higher than they will that have been far more irresponsible. What I was getting at was simple- without complete context as to who these kids are, what they do on an every-day basis, what their backgrounds are, how intelligent they are...which basically none of us know- how can anyone make a judgement as to how more or less risky these kids would be as picks? Just because Ryan Mallett's incident cost him a round or two doesn't mean a damn thing. There are droves of folks who put RW in the "too short" bucket without even attempting to quantify the rest of him- the entire context of who he is, and how good he really is. And IMO, behavior is far more complex than any physical tools.
OK so yeah, maybe it's news. But nobody reporting that news, nor anyone on this board, knows these kids good enough to know if this specific incident really means anything for these two kids. Maybe for one its a pattern, maybe for the other it was completely out of character. It only makes sense that it will affect the two kids differently.
And to come full circle back to my original post: "two kids that have most likely been immortalized since they began playing sports at age 5 or 6, done with college (rules, structure) and make new buddies at the combine. They expend a bunch of emotional and physical energy...21 year olds...never had a job before that they didn't earn by their quality of play...trashing a hotel room shouldn't surprise any of us. Yeah its stupid. How long has it been since you guys hung out with testosterone-fueled 21-yr olds that basically have no rules? Me neither."
In the end, yes- very stupid. I guess it's newsworthy. But without any context to throw this news in with- who is anyone to say how this behavior will affect either kid in the draft?
This is why mock drafts and real drafts never parallel each other.
