04-18-2023, 01:12 PM
(04-17-2023, 05:19 PM)pally Wrote: A big difference between Duke now and Duke of 2015 is that Mike Brown is far less involved in the final decision-making on who to draft
I don't doubt this at all, but from everything I read through the years, Mike wasn't extremely involved in the last couple decades. He threw in his 2 cents, but I rarely heard about him flexing his power. He openly said he wanted Ryan Mallet or Colin Kaepernick in 2011, but you saw who we took. He didn't allow Jay to trade up for him, though.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.