01-10-2017, 11:57 PM
(01-10-2017, 10:42 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I'm hesitant to take Alabama defenders. Their defense is so stacked that it's really hard to know which ones make an impact. Their defensive line is so good that he basically gets to run free. How will he do when blockers get to him?
Yeah it's gotta be a hard job scouting. That's why they get 6 figures to do it. You gotta look at these amazing players and decide who is smart enough to make similar plays in your system. I'll always say Shawn Williams was a product of lazy drafting. Anybody with a brain who checked his tape out would've known he wasn't gonna be the same player here. While he's not bad he's not good either. Put him on a team like Seattle and I bet he makes the pro bowl.
But back to your point it's gotta be a hefty task to gauge guys' mental aptitude to learn how to play with the big boys. Because physically EVERY prospect in the first couple rounds are gonna be athletic and impressive.
But what if there's a situation where you have a freak athlete linebacker on an undefeated team who makes a lot of plays against the run? But the reason he makes those plays is because he plays with a generational talent at DE who for whatever reason is really good at guessing which way runs will go and calls audibles from the line back to his linebackers? So now as a scouting dept you have to decide how good that freak athlete REALLY is without his star teammate. But the problem is you have NO TAPE of that kid because all his snaps are with the defensive lineman.
If you draft him and he sucks you look stupid but if you don't draft him and he shows promise you still look stupid
That's always been one job I'd never want in sports
