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In a Friday night memo, the league informed teams of changes to the pre-draft process beyond the Combine. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports the NFL is prohibiting scouts from timing, testing, interviewing in-person or giving medical exams to any draft-eligible player at any location except a school’s pro day or at an all-star game. The league cited ongoing concerns surrounding COVID-19, It bans private workouts, facility visits, dinners and film sessions with draft prospects. Schools hosting pro days are allowed a maximum of five players classified as “Designated Underclassmen” to participate in a pro day. Teams also are limited to three representatives at any pro day. |
Teams can practice and play against each other, actual physical contact, face-to-face breathing on each other, but heaven forbid they have dinner with a prospect or watch film with him?
We have Jettsons technology today, why not use it?
To me, the number one thing is medicals. The number two thing is having that interaction with the player. The interaction can happen over zoom even though it isn't the same. How are these medicals getting done? That was the main reason for the combine (cutting costs for teams on travel and medicals). They have one set of doctors perform the necessary tests and all 32 teams get the results. Are there going to be no medicals for teams or are these players going to have to take multiple exams for teams?
How? If these players aren't in one location How is that getting done?
So someone may get drafted,who they claim is 6'3".Than he shows up at training camp,and he can barely see over the Kicker.
Whoops,sorry about that
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I've read the NFL plans to get a team of doctors vaccinated who would then conduct medicals and provide that info to all teams. Although I think it's still in the planning/make it up as you go stage.
How? If these players aren't in one location How is that getting done?
You can have 1 doctor assigned to a region (or in states with a large number of prospects you will have multiple doctors) and all draft eligible players will get evaluated by NFL physician
What gives here???
Teams can practice and play against each other, actual physical contact, face-to-face breathing on each other, but heaven forbid they have dinner with a prospect or watch film with him?
And we have drafted recently from Alabama,Clemson,Penn state, Auburn,Georgia etc. So we have scouts and contacts who know this years best prospects and what they did couple of years ago.
We have Jettsons technology today, why not use it?
How would you pass the mashed potatoes?
Teams can practice and play against each other, actual physical contact, face-to-face breathing on each other, but heaven forbid they have dinner with a prospect or watch film with him?
Optics ....
Teams can practice and play against each other, actual physical contact, face-to-face breathing on each other, but heaven forbid they have dinner with a prospect or watch film with him?
If I had to guess I'd say the NFL is likely relaxing its "bubble" for the offseason and in response is ramping up social distancing protocols.
And we have drafted recently from Alabama,Clemson,Penn state, Auburn,Georgia etc. So we have scouts and contacts who know this years best prospects and what they did couple of years ago.
I’d be perfectly happy if all our draft picks came from these schools ... plus maybe Miami, Florida and Ohio St.
Teams can practice and play against each other, actual physical contact, face-to-face breathing on each other, but heaven forbid they have dinner with a prospect or watch film with him?
The league using COVID-19 as an incentive to hand out even more fines to players and coaches left and right?
Oh, wait. That's not plausible.
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hodgepodge nature of all of this makes little sense.
Teams can practice and play against each other, actual physical contact, face-to-face breathing on each other, but heaven forbid they have dinner with a prospect or watch film with him?
The league using COVID-19 as an incentive to hand out even more fines to players and coaches left and right?
Oh, wait. That's not plausible.
Talk about absurdity.
Prediction: BBI will be a rage-fest because this or that high draft pick isn't as goo as some other team's mid-round pick. But anyone who looks around the league will see that happening to everyone. It's gonna be a weird year.
Talk about absurdity.
a) multiple players on ice at the same time
b) multiple players in the locker room at the same time
c) multiple players traveling from city to city on the same plane
d) multiple players hanging out in a hotel room at the same time
What part of "some exposure is necessary in order to play the games and some exposure is not necessary in order to play the games" do some of you not get??? It's a pretty simple concept if you're thinking objectively without any preconceived bias.
To be fair, hardly anyone understood what was coming. Some epidemiologists did, I guess, but not the general public. I was still going to my office in early March. I remember thinking on a Monday "I might have to work from home" and by Wednesday saying "I can't go to the office anymore." I did, reluctantly, the next day (March 12) for a 1-on-1 meeting, and that was it. Within 5 days I went from "I guess I should pay attention" to "Time to hunker down." That was when all the toilet paper, hand soap, hand sanitizer and bottled water (!!??) flew off store shelves in about 36 hours.
If the NFL had known on Feb 15 how bad things were going to be in March, the NFL might have called off the combine. This year we're in the middle of the crisis, the virus is all over the country, and there's a new, more contagious strain spreading. That's why they're not flying people in from all over the country for a large, non-essential gathering. You can have a draft and a season without a combine. Next year things probably get back to normal, or something close to normal. This year, nope.
p.s.--One thing that may be missing is the second chance if a prospect has a bad day or is hobbled on the day his team's pro day is scheduled.
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Means a guy like Waddle will fall off the 1st round board for a team like the Giants who cannot afford to have a player who may have a lingering ankle injury or knee injury. So they'd be drafting blindly.
Not true. There will still be pro days and physicals for all prospects. And it's not like prospects nursing injuries can't go to local doctors for a medical exam and then have the results emailed to each team. For things that require person to person contact there will be person to person contact, for things that don't require person to person contact, it will be forbidden. That's the litmus test you should be applying to the league's social distancing protocols.
p.s.--One thing that may be missing is the second chance if a prospect has a bad day or is hobbled on the day his team's pro day is scheduled.
Milton you are missing the point. NFL teams have their doctors not random one. Not all doctors are the same. Not all opinions are the same. Have prospects go to their own doctors and send results doesn't mean much. Until a team gets their own doctors on opinions on the kids or NFL approved doctors at the combine where the Giants know them well then teams are still going to knock down players for injury concerns on their board. That is just how it is going to be. Teams seemed to play it safe last year with the draft and I think it'll be even moreso this year. You cannot have your team doctors make every pro day. And if the doctors are flying all over the country they'll have to either be quarantined for X amount of days or run the risk of getting covid. Teams will have to pick and choose specific players they want to focus on during this time but there is no way they get trustworthy medicals on all these athletes.