I don't watch college football. I watch a few bowl games and that's it. However, I do conduct meticulous research on the top 25-40 or so prospects to get a feel of the next gen of stars. Of course I watch footage, sure, but with football prospects, more than any other sport (maybe boxing is there too), the real knowledge to be gained is in player interviews. Print and broadcast.
After watching/listening to Garrett speak and reading his ESPN cover...
...his ass gon be sorry.
1. Not a bamma. He plays a position that requires a bamma. All the great players defensive lineman were bammas. You think Deacon Jones would dress like that guy if he were a 21 year-old black man in 2017. Nope. He wouldn't.
2. He doing that ol' played out renaissance man jive to appeal to corporate america and get that $$$$. God forbid you just be a meathead and get paid, but you 21 and laying the groundwork for your next career. Nobody care if you like Neil Tyson and Maya Angelou, dogg. Can you sack the QB at the NFL level? Do you have an insatiable, primordial urge to do it?
3. poetry?
4. He wanna sack Goat-T because he's a Peyton fan?
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Fri Apr-14-17 05:49 PM
2. "he does seem a bit extra in his interviews and what not" In response to Reply # 0
but maybe that's just his personality and not him already positioning himself for 2nd career. Not like we haven't seem some comedic behavior out of some DOGS, *your position on the field being noted* ...
Clinton Portis, Ocho, Brandon Marshall.. Guys from this most recent generation are a few that come to mind. Wanna make it more current - Drake's boyfriend Odell.
The poetry stuff - we see those stories run on NFL programming. They don't run those stories on guys who haven't done shit, at least that year. Do some fall off face of the planet? sure.
Some Eagles LB comes to mind, liked scarves or some bullshit if remembering right.
But there's a lot of talented guys playing under the ruse of "The Shield" *BARF!!* that are eccentric or intelligent, fashionistas or love of the game types.
All that being said, I don't watch much college football either lol.
I don't know if I've ever seen the kid play. I've seen some highlights in packages, his combine performance, and youtube clips.
So I don't know if he turns into that DOG on the field.
I feel like you've gotta be a little crazy to want to play football at the highest level man, regardless of God given natural abilities. If the stats and drill numbers tell us he's worthy of #1 pick and the kid likes contact, running around hitting people, and tearing QBs heads off, he'll be fine.
6. "Absolutely - first ex that comes to mind is Myron Rolle" In response to Reply # 5
Constant chatter from GMs and the like that he had too many other interests. From their perspective, they are trying to maximize the value and ROI on each pick so they want to be assured that dude is going to be committed.
Now, I don't necessarily think many GMs (or people for that matter) are all that good at discerning between outside interests and actual distractions and end up conflating them in a binary manner...but I get where they are coming from.
--------------------------------- <--The drought is over
"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS
"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left." -Kobe speaking to investigators
13. "To both, I wasn't speaking on the quality of the players" In response to Reply # 10
Rather, on how GMs will discount players based on if they have outside interests or not. Will mentioned Chris Borland as an example, he was never considered on the level of Myles Garrett either...that's not the conversation.
--------------------------------- <--The drought is over
"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS
"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left." -Kobe speaking to investigators
Had the same issues a while back when the eagles had Dhani Jones. He was doing that renaissance man shtick too. Couldn't tackle or cover for shit, but gave good interviews and was all over hipster Philly.
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