More folks on Broadway in Nashville tonight than there were at Trump's inauguration! Yo Trump, two words; Colin Kaepernick!
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5”10” Fran Tarkington invented thecscrambling QB and lead his team to 4 Super Bowls Worth a mention Mr Hoffman
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Murray could be a future Hall of Famer. He could also be back trying out baseball in a couple of years. There are no sure fire formulas to figure out who will make the transition from college to the pro's, even though the draft "experts" have developed many that are wrong just as often as they are correct. It's a crapshoot and their are always examples to disprove almost every metric the draft guru's create to judge talent.
First of all, Eddie LeBaron was 5'7", not 5'9". You can hear him say it himself on video if you YouTube his name. Secondly, it is a big mistake to downgrade the pre-merger game as the author of this article does. Before the merger in 1970 it was a fierce and tough game with perhaps even better athletes than we see today. Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown, and Dick Butkus could play in any era. Coaches Halas, Brown, Ewbank, Lombardi, Allen, and Shula could certainly coach in any era. In other words the game was just as difficult to play when Eddie LeBaron succeeded magnificently in it as it is right now. And Kyler Murray can be a winner today, regardless of his height, if he is truly a great player.
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@Jack19 I won't dispute that Kyler Murray can be a winner in the league, but I'd also point out the being on the shorter side in today's NFL will make success that much harder to come by. NFL defensive linemen (and the offensive linemen blocking them) are simply taller and wider on average than they were even 20 years ago. A quarterback has to be able to locate his receivers either past or over them, and a shorter QB is at a built in disadvantage to do so. Defensive linemen are also better coached at getting their hands up in passing lanes these days, which means a shorter QB has to put slightly more of an arch on his throws than his taller competitors to get them over those outstretched hands... which partially negates a player's arm strength. Can these obstacles be overcome by a great player? Sure. But it's more of a gamble for a team picking a shorter quarterback than you might think.
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I follow the nfl and the draft to a lesser degree and this is a pretty good summary and analysis.
my point here is draft has ridiculously less entertainment value than the nfl wishes it has for one reason; its just sooooooo slowwwww.
btw WAY too many commercials during games exacerbated by instant reply which can now seemingly be done to see if a QB or WR scratched himself or not, how many times and exactly where, the fact they can drag round ONE out longer than an ENTIRE football game, makes it more like watching paint dry than being an event to hold anyone's attention for very long.
solution; limit R1 to 3 total hours of drafting first day which translates to 5 minutes per pick R1 and a max 3 minutes afterwards. sure its less time to make last minute deals but it'd make for a far better fan experience.
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@sam
That works great for the viewers but for the teams themselves they might need those entire 10 minutes. At any given point in the draft you might have multiple teams calling you trying to set up deals, all of which MUST be taken care of in time to make the pick or else the next team can just run up to the podium and pick first. Teams might be flat footed by an unexpected trade that took the player they wanted off the board. All kinds of crazy things can happen... and many of these GM's jobs depend on how the draft goes.
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