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Kyler Murray, Nick Bosa among 5 most lied about top players

ZogZerg : 4/12/2019 11:02 am
Interesting Article from Charles Robinson - Yahoo sports.

Some comments on Haskins, comparing him to Rosen.

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One year ago, Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield couldn’t possibly be the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. It had to be USC’s Sam Darnold. Or maybe it was Wyoming’s Josh Allen. Until, well, maybe it could be Mayfield.

Welcome to April in the NFL draft, the Kafkaesque month of misinformation and propaganda that would put a communist-run newspaper to shame. A time when professional football becomes a snake of lies that wakes up every morning and eats its own tail. This is why mock drafts and months of debate go out the window in a matter of minutes in late April: most of the arguments are based on fairy tales. If we didn’t learn that last year, maybe we’ll never learn it.

Coming out of last year’s Senior Bowl, the mere suggestion of Mayfield being in play for the No. 1 overall pick was ridiculed. That actually happened. I wrote Mayfield was a legitimate Browns target after the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. By the time I got to the airport, a league source had called me to say that I should be embarrassed by the column, at which point I made sure to tweet out that not everyone agreed with my assessment.





Welcome to April in the NFL draft, the Kafkaesque month of misinformation and propaganda - ( New Window )
He left off an obvious one  
ghost718 : 4/12/2019 11:17 am : link
in Daniel Jones

Right around the time of the Senior Bowl,it started to get weird.Could have been the work of a few undercover Twitter Twits.
Haskins  
jvm52106 : 4/12/2019 11:44 am : link
will be the QB who slides a bit and Jones the surprise QB who goes much higher than expected.
Very interesting that Darnold was the #4 QB  
Oscar : 4/12/2019 12:27 pm : link
On Cleveland’s list last year. If memory serves it wasn’t until right before the draft that Baker was even really getting buzz and up until the day of the draft it was 50/50 with Darnold. Shows how little we all really know at this point.
I agree in some respects on a few of the mentioned players.  
MOOPS : 4/12/2019 1:12 pm : link
Leery of Sweat in that he'll have trouble dealing with the strength and power of NFL OTs. Long strider on first step like JPP but not the strength. Able to loop around college level OTs but doesn't have the foot speed of Osi to turn and close at the NFL level.
Bosa gets a lot of hype simply because his name is Bosa.
Wait a second  
djm : 4/12/2019 2:08 pm : link
Someone better alert the millions of fans out there that truly believe their opinions matter more than that of the nfl scouting world.

None of these mocks or published articles or entities matter. Right or wrong, it’s what the nfl thinks that matters.

RE: Wait a second  
Big Rick in FL : 4/12/2019 2:19 pm : link
In comment 14384001 djm said:
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Someone better alert the millions of fans out there that truly believe their opinions matter more than that of the nfl scouting world.

None of these mocks or published articles or entities matter. Right or wrong, it’s what the nfl thinks that matters.


Yup. This is why I have trouble with the people who are assuming the draft goes exactly like the draft media is predicting. I've seen numerous people on here and social media say the top 5 of the draft is going to be Murray, Bosa, Allen, Quinnen, D. White.

Like 95% of the media is predicting that. Yet every year NFL teams have completely different views on players. Nobody thought the Browns would pass on Bradley Chubb/Quenton Nelson for a 180 pound CB.
RE: Very interesting that Darnold was the #4 QB  
UberAlias : 4/12/2019 2:47 pm : link
In comment 14383802 Oscar said:
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On Cleveland’s list last year. If memory serves it wasn’t until right before the draft that Baker was even really getting buzz and up until the day of the draft it was 50/50 with Darnold. Shows how little we all really know at this point.
Except that’s not true according to their GM. Darnold was their top guy all along until Baker blew them away in evaluation process.
Bosa is a an outspoken MEGA guy. That is the  
TMS : 4/12/2019 6:37 pm : link
kiss of death with media people.
Why would GMs tell the truth?  
Steve in ATL : 4/12/2019 6:45 pm : link
about their draft board.
RE: RE: Very interesting that Darnold was the #4 QB  
shyster : 4/12/2019 6:50 pm : link
In comment 14384046 UberAlias said:
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In comment 14383802 Oscar said:


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On Cleveland’s list last year. If memory serves it wasn’t until right before the draft that Baker was even really getting buzz and up until the day of the draft it was 50/50 with Darnold. Shows how little we all really know at this point.

Except that’s not true according to their GM. Darnold was their top guy all along until Baker blew them away in evaluation process.


Dorsey never said that.
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fanofthejets : 4/13/2019 9:25 pm : link
fwiw it seemed like Mayfield to the Jets was a sure thing up until the last 2 weeks. Jets always wanted Darnold (and that SI article confirms that) but they also liked Mayfield and it seemed Darnold to Cleveland was a sure thing.

Mike Francesa has said many times the Jets were never drafting Mayfield. Not sure what to make of it. He can be a blowhard but I think he still has some sources within the industry.
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