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10 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Bryce has certainly given the S2 test a massive black eye.

At the end of the day, you HAVE to have the physical prerequisites. There's a lot of former player coaches who weren't much as players but are clearly very smart and have a great understanding for the game. They had it between the ears, they just didn't have the physical tools to translate it.

It's damn hard to determine the guys who will be able to read an NFL defense pre-snap, then either confirm or reject their initial read and assess the defense in a split second as utter chaos happens around them, then deliver a frozen rope 40 yards to a just barely open receiver while a 300 pound freak athlete is mere feet away from pile driving you into the turf. The full package is very hard to evaluate. But it's not that hard to determine if the guy has the ability to simply make the throw. That's why the Bryce evaluation was so baffling.

As we had to keep pointing out a few years back... there's a massive difference between football on the field and Madden in your mom's basement. 

 

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5 hours ago, BIGH2001 said:

And Tepper is still out here wanting an “analytics” guy as his GM. Hey dipshit, you can’t model your way to success in football you fuging dork.

"Hey dipshit, you can’t model your way to success in football you fuging dork."

I Hope Tepper sees this. 

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