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Post by Bavarian on Dec 17, 2014 17:00:54 GMT -5
I really hope Mariota and Hundley decide to attend the Senior Bowl. Are they letting juniors play this year? Ooops! I hope the facts don't get in his way. It's called the Senior Bowl for a reason although this is a dinosaur term since the draft accepted underclassmen over a decade ago. This event is almost useless. Why are we only evaluating seniors? And beyond that, if I'm an agent for one of these guys, he's not getting anywhere near Mobile. Why open up the chance for injury and end your season as this tends to happen every year to some poor kid with dreams of his payday after working so hard to get to this point. Meanwhile, underclassmen are simply preparing for the combine and have a competitive edge without risk to injury through 5 days of long and physical practices and scrimmages leading up to a game. While some of these guys shine in the Senior Bowl, their status doesn't seem to elevate much from it. It seems that prospects run greater risk of dropping out of sight if they don't show well. Anyway, that's been my observation. And I think they ought to just pull the plug on this thing. More than half of the best prospects aren't coming anyway.
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Post by Bavarian on Dec 17, 2014 17:03:49 GMT -5
Sources: #Oregon CB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu suffered what is believed to be a serious knee injury in practice yesterday. Concern it's a torn ACL. If I'm an agent, I'd also take my client out of the bowl games. This is tragic. And the pro bowl? Someone is going to lose their free agent payday one of these years from that meaningless game. Just saying. |
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Post by RobR on Dec 17, 2014 19:39:48 GMT -5
Are they letting juniors play this year? Ooops! I hope the facts don't get in his way. It's called the Senior Bowl for a reason although this is a dinosaur term since the draft accepted underclassmen over a decade ago. This event is almost useless. Why are we only evaluating seniors? And beyond that, if I'm an agent for one of these guys, he's not getting anywhere near Mobile. Why open up the chance for injury and end your season as this tends to happen every year to some poor kid with dreams of his payday after working so hard to get to this point. Meanwhile, underclassmen are simply preparing for the combine and have a competitive edge without risk to injury through 5 days of long and physical practices and scrimmages leading up to a game. Anyway, While some of these guys shine in the Senior Bowl, their status doesn't seem to elevate much from it. It seems that prospects run greater risk of dropping out of sight if they don't show well.that's been my observation. And I think they ought to just pull the plug on this thing. More than half of the best prospects aren't coming anyway. You can't be serious with this comment or maybe you haven't been watching the senior bowl for any amount of time. The senior bowl and more importantly the practices are more important than the combine for most of these players especially lineman and small school prospects. There is nothing better than seeing the lineman go one on one against top competition, and the small schoolers finally answering some question marks by playing against some of the best players in the country. Does it hurt some players stock......you bet, and I wouldn't have it any other way. |
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Post by Hollywood Nosebleed on Dec 17, 2014 20:06:39 GMT -5
Ooops! I hope the facts don't get in his way. It's called the Senior Bowl for a reason although this is a dinosaur term since the draft accepted underclassmen over a decade ago. This event is almost useless. Why are we only evaluating seniors? And beyond that, if I'm an agent for one of these guys, he's not getting anywhere near Mobile. Why open up the chance for injury and end your season as this tends to happen every year to some poor kid with dreams of his payday after working so hard to get to this point. Meanwhile, underclassmen are simply preparing for the combine and have a competitive edge without risk to injury through 5 days of long and physical practices and scrimmages leading up to a game. Anyway, While some of these guys shine in the Senior Bowl, their status doesn't seem to elevate much from it. It seems that prospects run greater risk of dropping out of sight if they don't show well.that's been my observation. And I think they ought to just pull the plug on this thing. More than half of the best prospects aren't coming anyway. You can't be serious with this comment or maybe you haven't been watching the senior bowl for any amount of time. The senior bowl and more importantly the practices are more important than the combine for most of these players especially lineman and small school prospects. There is nothing better than seeing the lineman go one on one against top competition, and the small schoolers finally answering some question marks by playing against some of the best players in the country. Does it hurt some players stock......you bet, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Agreed, this didn't even happen at the Senior Bowl. I just didn't think Ifo deserved his own thread, and seeing he's was invited to play in the Senior Bowl I put it here. If anything the Senior Bowl could have really helped Ifo. If he played well against some of the best WRs maybe people would see him as more than just a nickel back. |
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Post by RobR on Dec 17, 2014 20:24:19 GMT -5
You can't be serious with this comment or maybe you haven't been watching the senior bowl for any amount of time. The senior bowl and more importantly the practices are more important than the combine for most of these players especially lineman and small school prospects. There is nothing better than seeing the lineman go one on one against top competition, and the small schoolers finally answering some question marks by playing against some of the best players in the country. Does it hurt some players stock......you bet, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Agreed, this didn't even happen at the Senior Bowl. I just didn't think Ifo deserved his own thread, and seeing he's was invited to play in the Senior Bowl I put it here. If anything the Senior Bowl could have really helped Ifo. If he played well against some of the best WRs maybe people would see him as more than just a nickel back. Look at recent examples of some players whose stock sky rocketed after the senior bowl. Just recently Fisher, Martin, and Bitonio shows how important the whole senior bowl week is. Hell if Geno accepted and played well he might not even be a Jet today.....or with our luck we grab him at 13 overall. |
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Post by sec.101row23 on Jan 15, 2015 9:04:15 GMT -5
Looks like Hundley declined his Senior Bowl invite. Bad move IMO for Hundley to skip out on this.
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Post by Lithfan on Jan 15, 2015 9:37:23 GMT -5
Looks like Hundley declined his Senior Bowl invite. Bad move IMO for Hundley to skip out on this. Yup - I saw this yesterday and I agree it is a bad move. A guy like Hundley should want every opportunity to play in front of scouts to show that he is worthy of an early round pick. I think they still have 1 QB slot open -- perhaps for Mariota. |
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Post by sec.101row23 on Jan 15, 2015 9:42:49 GMT -5
Looks like Hundley declined his Senior Bowl invite. Bad move IMO for Hundley to skip out on this. Yup - I saw this yesterday and I agree it is a bad move. A guy like Hundley should want every opportunity to play in front of scouts to show that he is worthy of an early round pick. I think they still have 1 QB slot open -- perhaps for Mariota. Right now only Carden, Petty, Simms and Grayson are committed. Mariota hasn't made his decision yet. Maybe they extend Bridge an invite, or invite one of the Shrine Game QBs that perform really well, like they did with Garrapolo last year. |
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Post by Paradis on Jan 15, 2015 10:29:04 GMT -5
What a dummy. Hundley is shaping up to be this years tyler wilson.
Petty and Grayson should be fund to watch. Really looking forward to this one.
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Post by Lithfan on Jan 15, 2015 10:53:18 GMT -5
Yup - I saw this yesterday and I agree it is a bad move. A guy like Hundley should want every opportunity to play in front of scouts to show that he is worthy of an early round pick. I think they still have 1 QB slot open -- perhaps for Mariota. Right now only Carden, Petty, Simms and Grayson are committed. Mariota hasn't made his decision yet. Maybe they extend Bridge an invite, or invite one of the Shrine Game QBs that perform really well, like they did with Garrapolo last year. I think Sean Mannion committed to the Sr Bowl yesterday. From reading the Shrine Game practice reports, it does not sound like any of the QBs are standing out. Sounds like Heinicke and Fajardo are having the best week of practice, but I am not sure either has stood out enough yet to get the last invite. |
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Post by sec.101row23 on Jan 15, 2015 11:00:38 GMT -5
Usually you see one of these Senior Bowl QBs get a big bump in their draft stock as a result of playing well that week. Grayson could be that guy this year.
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Post by sec.101row23 on Jan 17, 2015 17:54:17 GMT -5
Looks like Nick Marshall accepted the final QB spot for the Senior Bowl. Simms, Marshall and Grayson are the QBs on the South team and Petty, Mannion, and Carden are QBs of the North.
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Post by RobR on Jan 17, 2015 17:57:54 GMT -5
Looks like Nick Marshall accepted the final QB spot for the Senior Bowl. Simms, Marshall and Grayson are the QBs on the South team and Petty, Mannion, and Carden are QBs of the North. I know he accepted but I read they had 4QB's on one roster and only 2 on the other. Did they change it to even it out? |
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Post by sec.101row23 on Jan 17, 2015 18:01:49 GMT -5
Looks like Nick Marshall accepted the final QB spot for the Senior Bowl. Simms, Marshall and Grayson are the QBs on the South team and Petty, Mannion, and Carden are QBs of the North. I know he accepted but I read they had 4QB's on one roster and only 2 on the other. Did they change it to even it out? Yea they evened it out, had to put Simms and Marshall on the same team, they originally wanted to split them up. |
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Post by RobR on Jan 17, 2015 18:05:55 GMT -5
I know he accepted but I read they had 4QB's on one roster and only 2 on the other. Did they change it to even it out? Yea they evened it out, had to put Simms and Marshall on the same team, they originally wanted to split them up. OK Thanks. Looks like the rosters are set and my DVR is prepared. Senior Bowl practice is one of my favorite times of the year. |
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