Cordy Glenn

[Mike M (the other one)]

(01-30-2020, 02:26 PM)804 fan Wrote: Lol I remember when we picked Sean Brewer, 3rd round i believe San Jose St or something. How in the hell you draft a chain smoker in an being physically and well conditioned sport as in football lol

Perfect example of how the scouting works. They put together profiles from various websites, and go from there, maybe watch a little tape and believe what the profile says, with out doing the real research, IE Boots on the ground checking this kid out in his own environment and talking to his coaches/team mates.

All the big names were gone and MB used his "cheat sheets" to pick Sean. And with the way the Bengals have been drafting lately? I'm afraid this is the way they still do things.

And many of these scouting websites say the same things about the majority of the players out there, many times with out even truly watching much if any tape on them. They trust that the other site did the work.

Let's say for example, I'm at my team meeting and on time. The coach is late. So I'm looking at my twitter account while waiting. Someone sees that and tells a scout that I checked twitter while waiting for the meeting, now all of a sudden, I am now a "checks twitter DURING team meetings, lacks focus, is not serious about football, immature." type of person. When that's possibly the only time I ever did that. Now I've dropped from possible 3rd round to 7-UDFA pick on the draft boards and there was no reason for it than maybe a jealous teammate telling a scout that in conversation, the scout didn't likely research the story (they don't have that kinda time to research everyone, they have dead lines), just found a tidbit and expanded it.

And once published, it gets copied and branched out to several other websites as well making it a real pain for me to get cleared up and in some cases I have no idea which one started it first, but they aren't changing their story.

And another one of my favorites. He's a family man, so he's mature! WTH? What does being a family man have to do with it. Sure, I might be RESPONSIBLE, but not mature. Big difference.