Mr. Scot

Lemme ask you this: Do you believe enough in this idea that you'd support drafting Will Levis? He's got superior physical tools to both Stroud and Young plus far better game tape from his 2021 season than Richardson had in 2022. So if his accuracy issues are fixable, why not take the chance on him?

Those are the kinds of things I'm talking about that you can fix. But can you easily turn a general vicinity passer into a consistently laser accurate passer? Don't think so. You can minimize the weaknesses of a Brett Favre or a John Elway, but you're never going to turn them into a Drew Brees.

I've seen some of those things. I get it. My question there would be which is the more valid statement: "There are exceptions to every rule" or "Hey, If this one guy can do it, that means everybody can do it." I've seen my fair share of supervisors try to apply that second idea. The results generally haven't been good.

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That'd fall under "exceptions to every rule". If you only needed one example to disprove anything, that'd open up an awful lot of stuff. (Including some things related to our current quarterback height debate)

But again, how many other examples can you point to? Accuracy to me has a lot to do with hand-eye coordination, and I don't know that you can teach that. You can teach somebody how to better place their feet, fix their release point, etc but I think that's only going to go so far. Hell, even now Allen still has some off-target passes (granted, every quarterback does)

That same argument can apply to any player. What if we pass on Stroud and then find out the size argument on Young was valid?

I know Josh Allen is one name people bring up, but I'm not sure how valid that is. Even accepting Allen though, how many other examples are there?

I think you can teach stuff like footwork, technique, etc. Accuracy though? To me I think that's just something you either have or you don't.

That might not necessarily be the best place for it to be

Uuuhhh, yeah... Reminds me of how they always said beauty pageant swimsuit competitions were about showing the poise of the contestants. I can't remember a time when me or any other guy checked out a Miss USA contestant in her bikini and said "Damn! Nice poise" As far as Hubbard though, I'd say he's probably got an uphill battle trying to make money that technically wasn't available yet. If he were to win this, how many other athletes would files similar suits?

I've seen it argued that you can teach passing accuracy. I just don't see it.

Mine picks a winner based on whether or not they're wearing the Cowboys jerseys

Still need it to form my own opinion My thing with the pros is that they're always going to be smarter than us. That's not their job though. Their job is to be smarter than their competitors. Hell, Marty Hurney was a professional. He just wasn't very good compared to other professionals.

What they didn't tell you is that the players have to buy them themselves

I remember. Back then Sportscenter was a can't miss thing.

Creation of the NFL Network definitely hurt the ESPN Insiders. These days, the league is always going to give the best info to their in-house guys.

They're all upcoming. We likely won't get a date until closer to the actual day of the visits.

"Who the hell is Mel Kiper" will always be one of the funniest moments in draft history My personal opinion: Daniel Jeremiah is the best of the draftniks right now. Used to be Mike Mayock but man did that stint with the Raiders hurt his rep. (even If it really was Gruden making the choices)

And that's the thing. We keep getting reporters saying it's this guy or it's that guy when the reality Is that decision just has not been made yet. They're ultimately just making educated guesses. (some more educated than others)

I think ESPN has a decent successor to Mortensen in Adam Schefter. They've been trying forever to groom Todd McShay as their eventual successor to Mel Kiper and I just don't see it working.

I think the premise of the question assumes that a player is average to adequate in the less preferred department.

I'm...not really sure what to make of this