The 4th round ....

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http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/profiles/paul-dawson?id=2552318

Everything says he can't play in the NFL, except film - the guy just makes plays.

yeah, reminds me of Jones, the tackling machine, a great college player with an instinct for the football who wasn't big enough or fast enough to transition his game to the pros.

So you want to invest a high pick in a year of deep talent on a player who doesn't have measurables at a position that we don't value much in a year when superb players should be available at positions of need that we value highly.

Don't let John Mara hear that, he'll fire Reese and beg you to come on board and right his ship. Don't mean to be caustic, just seems like very flawed logic.

either of those picks. I'm a big believer in players who just have a knack for the game - i.e., "real football players". I see the combine as basically a track meet. Being super fast or athletic doesn't necessarily mean the guy is a real football player. Stories of athletic guys who turned out to be busts are legion. Also, the numbers fro half the guys who are already playing in the NFL would probably be worse than when they were fresh out of college and prepared for the combine.

Smith was team captain - therefore, I can see the Giants front office taking a serious look at him.

Dawson wasn't a team captain, but he's the real deal when it comes to a "real football player". Would love to see him in Blue

Improved his 40 time at his Pro Day and had a sick 6.76 3 cone. Odell had a 6.69 so 35 pounds heavier and a damn similar time. Might be slow in the 40, but that means nothing. His technique could have been bad and really slowed him down. The guy is fast on the field.

4.77 at his Pro Day & a 4.93 at the combine. So use an average and you have a 4.85. Borland ran a 4.83. Nobody will tell you Borland didn't have NFL speed. He was an absolute stud as a rookie. Both are good football players who don't have good track speed. Means nothing in the NFL. LBs don't start with their hand in the ground and then run 40 yards untouched.

after the second round.....

Various combines just show an athletes physical attributes....Wonderlic's just show if an athlete had sewing classes or math classes in college....video's are stacked with highlights of the player, not the lowlights(I mean you can make a highlight reel of Sintim's one sack, by showing it from various angles.....just don't show the part where he wasn't blocked)....


It's a team's own scouting system, that can make or break a draft.....you can't go to games and see all these guys.....it comes down to watching hours and hours of game films of these guys in action.....how strong was the competition? Did the player take advantage of another teams mistakes? Was it a scheme that made the player look good? When the game was on the line, what did the player do? In the fourth quarter, was the player as effective as he was in the first?

The scouts basically set the values for for the draft.....our scouts seem to have missed on players after the second round......