Thread: Senior bowl practice reviews and bear prospec

Originally Posted by Henry Burris

Can we just skip the hype over the senior bowl and the combine, just ONCE? Can the biggest factor please be in what a guy did against quality opponents?

I feel like I've said this a thousand times here and dbz, but here it goes again. Only fools look purely at postseason workouts to judge talent. However, they are a great tool to divide close players and get small school players on an even playing field with the big DI school players. For every player that gets drafted highly purely because of a great workouts like Michael Mitchell, there's countless more who have earned their position with play on the field and solidified that with solid workouts. Hell, there's more guys who suck at workouts like Brandon Spikes and still go early because of their on the field play. On top of all that, there are just some things you can't see on tape because of different levels of competition that everyone goes through. Guys like Ramses Barden may dominate tiny college CBs, but it's easy to see why they are failing in the NFL despite that hype when you get them in isolated workouts.

Agreed think you need a COMBO of both the play of field AND also the measurables which cn raise red flags, don't need to just look at one or the other

If it wasnt for Olsen's combine did his play in college warrant a first round pick? If it was the case combine should be second to evaluation Zach Miller would have been the first TE taken.

I hope the Bears learned that lesson cause we often take combine warriors over guys who produced in college