Cyrus Kouandjio revisted

[BeasonBeastingBacks]

Kouandjio plans to hold his own workout on the 8th.  

If he does well and his knee checks out with other doctors, I'd take him at 28.

[CarolinaCoolin]

carolinacoonin, why did he skip the team pro day??

Waiting for the second one. Which is perfectly fine

[CarolinaCoolin]

Then why such a putrid combine performance?

Could have been sick I don't know but to act is if the combine is the end all be all for prospects is short sighted and you know that

[tiger7_88]

Could have been sick I don't know but to act is if the combine is the end all be all for prospects is short sighted and you know that

 

 

Pro days ain't much to go by either.

 

Talk about your perfectly controlled atmospheres.

 

He had a chance to show out in an atmosphere of uncertainty and adversity in Indianapolis and he poo his pants.

 

Guess who else was sick in Indianapolis?  And had had a previous knee injury and surgery?  Yeah, Greg Robinson.

 

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/68258092/auburn-tackle-greg-robinson-was-solid-at-the-nfl-combine

 

 

The NFL scouting combine may be the most important test of a 21-year-old's life. Certainly, it is the most intimidating. Agents invest tens of thousands of dollars so their athletes can reach a peak physically and mentally.

 

Getting to that peak was a challenge for Greg Robinson. The week before the combine, the Auburn offensive tackle caught a head cold. It settled in his nose and throat, and it hung on. He took a decongestant the whole week and quietly went about his business. Every night in Indianapolis, before bed he went through a light workout to try to "sweat it out." No one ever asked if he needed a Kleenex.

Discomfort is relative. Going with the flow can become a survival method. When Robinson was 11, Hurricane Katrina forced his family to evacuate their home in Houma, La. When they arrived in Houston, mom announced they were going to stay there awhile. Robinson didn't go home for two years. "When we got back, some of our things had been destroyed," he said. "But we packed just about everything we had. I didn't have much."

His first night in Indy, staying at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Robinson slept on a double bed in a room with Cal tight end Richard Rodgers. The next day, he was diagnosed with pinkeye. He was given eye drops and a new room with no roommate and a king size bed. He would not be spending much time in that bed though.

On Wednesday, Robinson was up before the sun rose for medical exams. There was orientation, a blood test ("They took about a gallon of blood, filled up six tubes," he said), a kidney test, heart test and more. Many different doctors from different teams wanted to get their own hands on Robinson, and they did. Much pulling, bending and twisting ensued. They wanted to know about past injuries. Robinson, who is as transparent as he is big, volunteered to doctors that he hurt his ankle last February when he fell off a golf cart and the cart rolled on his leg. "It was something I wanted them to know about so they could see it didn't affect anything," he said. "I said, 'Check it out.'"

They wanted to know if he ever had surgery. He told them he did, on his right lateral meniscus. They ordered an MRI of both knees, and another on his spine. Putting the massive Robinson in a closed MRI tube was a little like fitting a watermelon into a mini-fridge. They told him to make his frame as narrow as possible in order to slide him in. Once he was crammed in, he listened to relaxing music and dozed off. The MRI on his spine took 45 minutes. The left knee MRI took 65 minutes. The right knee MRI took 70 minutes. All told, the MRI process took more than four hours.

 

 

 

 

But I'm sure at Kouandjio's closed, personal, CONTROLLED work-out, he will be nothing like the player he was when his agent wasn't controlling every move he made up in Indianapolis.

[CarolinaCoolin]

Pro days ain't much to go by either.

Talk about your perfectly controlled atmospheres.

He had a chance to show out in an atmosphere of uncertainty and adversity in Indianapolis and he poo his pants.

Guess who else was sick in Indianapolis? And had had a previous knee injury and surgery? Yeah, Greg Robinson.

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/68258092/auburn-tackle-greg-robinson-was-solid-at-the-nfl-combine

But I'm sure at Kouandjio's closed, personal, CONTROLLED work-out, he will be nothing like the player he was when his agent wasn't controlling every move he made up in Indianapolis.

Still salty about him not going to AU I see. Try to let your but hurt flow somewhere else would you?

[Jackofalltrades]

Could have been sick I don't know but to act is if the combine is the end all be all for prospects is short sighted and you know that

I'd try my damnedest to go all out for my nationally televised job interview where you get to compete head to head for millions of dollars. Maybe that's just me.

[tiger7_88]

Still salty about him not going to AU I see. Try to let your but hurt flow somewhere else would you?

Yeah, lil bro, SO butthurt about it.

Turned out so bad for us. All we had to fill the spot he COULD have had was an average SEC talent named...

Greg Robinson.

I just never was able to get over that kind of step down in talent and performance. Woe was us.

[thefuzz]

Large O lineman with possible knee issues....

 

Unless he is cleared by multiple team doctors, I say stay away.

[CarolinaCoolin]

I'd try my damnedest to go all out for my nationally televised job interview where you get to compete head to head for millions of dollars. Maybe that's just me.

Game film> combine numbers

End of story

[Jackofalltrades]

Game film> combine numbers

End of story

Thus the reason EVERY team has MULTIPLE scouts and personnel guys at the combine.

[CarolinaCoolin]

Thus the reason EVERY team has MULTIPLE scouts and personnel guys at the combine.

Are you hard in the head?

[Jackofalltrades]

Are you hard in the head?

Your endless campaign to prop your buddy is admirable, but it's old hat. You've championed your cause well, but give it a rest.

[CarolinaCoolin]

Your endless campaign to prop your buddy is admirable, but it's old hat. You've championed your cause well, but give it a rest.

Look if people were more reasonable when looking at prospects on this board then I wouldnt have a problem but you have people on this board who see guys run 4.3s at the combine and think they are first rounders then you have guys who run 4.7 and no one wants to touch but ends up being the best receiver of the class.

People like you on this board think the combine is the end all be all of the scouting and drafting process and completely swear off guys who don't do well at the combine but have good pro days and game film while completely ignoring how the process works when it has been stated multiple times gms and scouts weigh game film above all else.

Then you have prospects who have their medicals messed up EVERY year like with star or with Cyrus and you have people who swear them off acting like the are busts and their knees won't hold up in like 3 years based off of no information AT ALL.

Endless campaign? More like fighting off ignorance with common sense and logic. But you wouldn't know anything about that.

[Jackofalltrades]

People like you on this board think the combine is the end all be all of the scouting and drafting process and completely swear off guys who don't do well at the combine but have good pro days and game film while completely ignoring how the process works when it has been stated multiple times gms and scouts weigh game film above all else.

Endless campaign? More like fighting off ignorance with common sense and logic. But you wouldn't know anything about that.

I'm not a fan of the combine and if actually knew anything about me, you would know that. Game film IS a bigger factor to me as well as scouts and GM's. However, when your sole job after your bowl game is to prepare for the pre-draft process, especially the combine, and you completely embarrass yourself it's a red flag, whether you agree with it or not.

If you want to continue harping on the platform of "common sense and logic" then you might start by removing your tremendous and horribly obvious bias. You're a CK fanboy- we got it.