Som, ummmm…What’s with the hate?

Don’t be so naive. Race matters. It matters in just about everything, including the NFL. You can act like it doesn’t come into peoples minds, but it does, whether consciously or subsconsciously.

Jake Locker is a perfect example of a double standard. He is one of those athletic qbs you speak of. He does have a cannon, but wasnt terribly accurate at Washington, nor did he win a bunch of games. Was he subject to the same scrutiny that Cam Newton was? Ryan Tannehill is largely unproven, but despite the fact he has played more games at receiver than qb, most “experts” are comfortable penciling him in as the third qb off the board. In what universe is Tannehill a better pro prospect than Russell Wilson? I don’t believe that Mayock and crew are racist, but I think they harbor biases and stereotypes that force them to put most qbs of color in the same boat. The previous poster could have been more tactful than to come right out and basically call Mayock a racist. That being said, can we ask a serious question about race without somebody automatically going into defensive mode?

Grow up and stop spamming message boards and get a life.

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Whats sad is that there are people like you who turn everything into a racial topic. Its not about race. When there is an athletic QB, scouts will want to know if he can throw as well as he can run because its a much tougher game at the pro level. Mike Vick couldnt do that until two years ago. Vince Young still hasnt figured it out. Cam Newton looks like he will. If a team is going to invest a top 5 pick in a QB he wants to make sure he can pass as well as he can run. No one cares what color these kids are leave the 1960′s in the past

BTY, can Mayock see pass the skin color of these QBs? Does he feel he needs to compare every black QB to their own? RGIII is so lucky because if Cam didn’t come along and do what he did last season, folks like Mayock would be stuck constantly comparing RG III to Mike Vick or VY.. SMDH…

So sad….

He is TERRIBLE in the booth during a game. Between the lisp and his sensationalizing of every player, it’s just painful.

Well, lets see..He’s on tv and your on here commenting. I’m sure your comment won’t sting him too much

For me the biggest thing is the qbs. I keep hearing how they want to throw to their own wr’s, but that’s lame. What are the colts going to draft all the Stanford skill position players as well?

It’s hard to support these guys when they act like this. Its one weekend for people who are about to make you a millionaire, just do it

Please tell me what Luck or Griffin have to gain from participating in these things??? Luck has played all 4 years in college. Scouts have had every oppurtunity to watch him in game condition. Griffin same thing. These guys are not going to perform in something that’s meaningless. It’s real silly to insinuate just because they won’t jump through hoops for your entertainment at a combine that is essentially meaningless to them that they somehow will not perform in football games. What kind of logic is that?

Will the Colts pass over Luck because he didn’t perform at the combine? Will Griffin drop out the top 10 for the same reason? Give me a break.

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Nobody’s insinuating anything. The fact of the matter is while they have “nothing to gain” from throwing at the combine, they have nothing to lose either. Look at Cam Newton a year ago, he was terrible throwing at the combine and still went #1.

Why should they throw? Because it shows that drive to compete in everything, it shows that they’re not afraid to show what they can bring to the table, it shows confidence. It’s an attitude thing, the “I don’t need to do this, but I’m going to anyway because I want to show what I’m made of ” mentality is something teams love to see.

Instead these kids are choosing the safe route, the fearful route, the uncompetitive route. Will it hurt their draft stock? Probably not, but it certainly isn’t helping.

Exactly…. Great Post.

It’s funny how some in here are talking about how worthless it is for some of these guys to do all the drills here at the combine but yet never addressed their pro days:)
Well if it is about injuries and being worried about that they have to throw and run at their pro days and could very well injure themselves as easily at a pro day:)

I will take Frank Cooney and his companies’ work long before the likes of Mayock as well.

Mayock has and will continue to make some very bad analyst calls as long as he has a microphone.

One other thing – the relationships that he claims to have, like the one that he thinks he has with the Patriots camp, is exaggerated.

There is no upside for any of them and any questions could cost them money.

Why should players like Blackmon and Jeffery who have done so much on the field go out and run against sprinters like Stephen Hill or Tommy Streeter who have done little or nothing on the field? It would be foolish and counterproductive for them.

That was the point nobody said even RG3 is going to slide down the board like a hurricane. Were saying it sure would be nice to see how they perform in a not so normal setting…

All of you people that think it will hurt their stock is full of it. Combine performances only affect the 2nd tier and below prospects negatively or positively, and those guys are gonna participate anyway. The combine will not affect the blue chips. The teams want to see them throw and run so that they can compare the “lesser” prospects to the top prospects. Risk of injury is hogwash–yes, I said hogwash, dammit–since the risk of injury is no different than it would be on their pro day.

I say go to the combine. Do what you do. Go home. It won’t hurt your position.

No doubt… Stop acting like the conditions have to be exactly right.. What are these guys not going to perform when it’s 20 below out and snow is flying everywhere?

So sick of these agents telling these kids it’s okay to give a half a** effort at the combine because it won’t hurt their draft stock one bit.
Well that may be the case for Luck but who knows about the rest…
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Please tell me what Luck or Griffin have to gain from participating in these things??? Luck has played all 4 years in college. Scouts have had every oppurtunity to watch him in game condition. Griffin same thing. These guys are not going to perform in something that’s meaningless. It’s real silly to insinuate just because they won’t jump through hoops for your entertainment at a combine that is essentially meaningless to them that they somehow will not perform in football games. What kind of logic is that?

Will the Colts pass over Luck because he didn’t perform at the combine? Will Griffin drop out the top 10 for the same reason? Give me a break.