We’ve addressed in various contexts of late the Scouting Combine, also known as the Underwear Olympics.
We realize that it provides an avenue for talking football during the offseason, but since when is a bunch of guys running and jumping and generally not playing football count as football?
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The Combine is stupid and idiotic and not worth paying any attention to. And it’s certainly not worth covering on this site. For more on that, here’s a feature on our site that we hope you pay attention to.
Underwear Olympics-that’s hilarious. NOT.
I’m sure Chris Johnson’s record breaking 40 time that pushed him up draft boards 2 years ago probably didn’t give teams any indication as to what he was capable of.
NOT. That’s hilarious. NOT.
We realize that it provides an avenue for talking football during the offseason, but since when is a bunch of guys running and jumping and generally not playing football count as football?
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WTF!?!?!?! You post countless articles here killing people who don’t do all of the drills at the combine, then you kill the combine for not being relevant?
Do you have even a shred of dignity or will you just say whatever you think will get hits? How could you take both sides of an issue so blatantly?
NBC should really allow you guys to buy REAL suites…cmon these freaking 2nd hand carpets are killing me…not even a homeless dog would sleep on them
Mike & Greg welcome to 2010
Dolce, Armani, Versace, Boss…its called FASHION
i rank you 4th place in ugliest robe awards
1st is the crazy dude from hockey night in canada
2nd keyshawn johnson
3rd michael irvine
4th POOOOWWWW!!! WILMA & GRACE umm Greg & Mike aka the fashion flinstones
5th idiot from espn with that idiot name
Lot of guys who just like to post hateful messages. Take a nap, ya grumps.
If the put pads on them, then had them go through the drills, it would be a far better indication of how guys will really move on the field.
Also, any of it could help you make a decision between two guys who you have ranked pretty close, after watching them on film.
So, college body of work + senior bowl + combine.
I like the combine because it lets me see/read about how some guys who did nothing college shoot up the draft. Funny.
How could Florio and King suggest they know better then the 32 teams in the NFL?
Interviews and how a player reacts when all eyes are watching are two good enough reasons to hold the combine.
Is Florio downplaying the Combine because he’s on NBC and its competing with the Olympics for viewers?
And to call it the “underwear olympics”, wow, you sound like a school girl, “look at the boys running around in their underwear! teehehehe”.