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The combine should add a "mental combine" for prospects with past character issues.

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Along with the wonderlic and all the physical exercises of the combine, they should also have a "mental combine" that would consist of a few elite shrinks and therapists in the country that would have one on ones with players that have had character concerns, in this case guys like Jameis Winston and Dorial Green-Beckham.

Ofcourse im not naive in thinking that noone, even a top therapist cant predict the future, but a psych evaluation could atleast go a long way in determining if a player is remorseful, high likelihood of being a repeat offender etc.

For example, have a scale of 1-10, 1 being "very low risk of being a repeat offender" to a 10 being "very high risk of being a repeat offender." Ofcourse it would be a little more im depth than that, but you get my drift. Maybe even have the player meet with theee different therapists that way if all three rate him a 10, then there is general consensus that you should avoid him like the plague, or if all three rate him a 1-3 then that indicates a huge chance he is very low risk

I bring this up because even though I know we wont touch him, I want to draft DGB so bad, and with tests like I described above, it would atleast give some insight if he is truely a high risk or not. If the NFL hires top doctors to check out the physical aspects, then they should be able to hire some of the best therapists in the country to evaluate a prospects mental state and if he is high risk/low risk, remorseful etc

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I thought that was what the interview and background check did.

Interviews just test football knowledge and how a player was in college. A good therapists can do a series of exercises and determine the mental state of player, if a player really feels remorse for past transgressions and how likely a player is to be a repeat offender.

Its almost how a parole board determines to grant parole or not, they cant really explain what they look for, its just experience and a general sense and feel that guides them

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I thought that was what the interview and background check did.

 

Depends on which team you're talking about.

 

All teams do background checks, some probably more thorough than others.

 

The Giants have a full blown psych test they give prospects, similar to a Meyers-Briggs type thing.  Don't know whether they administer that at the interviews or just have prospects fill it out and send it back.  Interviews being only 15 minutes, I suspect it's the latter.  And other teams will use part of the interview to ask character based questions.

 

The Panthers?  are indeed a team that takes character very seriously, but Dave Gettleman has stated that he prefers to talk about nothing but football in the combine interviews.  If there are character issues that concern them, that's part of a different process.  And honestly, what could you really learn in 15 minutes anyway?  (inser car insurance joke here)

 

So yeah, the Panthers most definitely do check players out, and quite thoroughly.  They just don't use the combine interviews to do so.

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Depends on which team you're talking about.

All teams do background checks, some probably more thorough than others.

The Giants have a full blown psych test they give prospects, similar to a Meyers-Briggs type thing. Don't know whether they administer that at the interviews or just have prospects fill it out and send it back. Interviews being only 15 minutes, I suspect it's the latter. And other teams will use part of the interview to ask character based questions.

The Panthers? are indeed a team that takes character very seriously, but Dave Gettleman has stated that he prefers to talk about nothing but football in the combine interviews. If there are character issues that concern them, that's part of a different process. And honestly, what could you really learn in 15 minutes anyway? (inser car insurance joke here)

So yeah, the Panthers most definitely do check players out, and quite thoroughly. They just don't use the combine interviews to do so.

Yea well I figured some teams would be sneaky and ask certain questions that would answer their type of character.

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