"He only did it for one Year..."

[*psychdoctor*]

(04-21-2020, 02:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yeah, right.  Years of actual NFL draft history is just a bunch of bullshit everyone should ignore.


Being a "one year wonder" is just one piece of information scouts use to evaluate players, just like a forty yard dash time.  It does not automatically mean the player is excluded.  It just means their are some questions.  If a top WR has a bad forty time at the combine teams don't automatically drop the guy in the draft.  Instead they go back and watch more film to see if the slow forty time might be a problem.  Burrow looked great in 2019, but his play in 2018 still creates some questions.  Personally I believe a good bit of his increase in production was due to coaching and the talent around him, but at the same time he has no big flaws that would keep him from being the #1 overall pick.

The funny thing is how some of the same people who claim we should ignore Dalton's one great year love Burrow based on just one great year.  Professional scouts can spot talented QBs even when they are playing on bad teams with poor coaches, and in 2018 not one scout was seeing anything great in Burrow.

I didn't say ignore the evaluative process of NFL players, I said it is not logical to conclude Burrow's elite performance was a fluke.  Even if Burrow's performance was heavily influenced by Joe Brady's system, a system can only disguise an athlete's flaws so far.  Sort of what they are doing with Herbert.  

Players are measured by performance against relative competition level.  They are also measured by attributes that are used as a construct of an elite athlete.  Construct Attributes can be measurables like 40 time, height, weight, size of hand, speed, quickness, Broad-jump, results of the combine.  But then you look at Atkins he did not meet those measureables is still an elite DL athlete. Then you look at Herbert who many feel meets all the ideal constructs of a QB, yet he did not improve.   

Film confirms what you see or raises more questions.  Still, the athlete has to demonstrate elite performance and intangibles.