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Bad example Just because Harbaugh came close to winning the AFCCG with a good defense behind him, icluding Alpert, but that doesn't mean he was better than Dilfer. Harbaugh came close to winning a conference championship game, but Dilfer won a superbowl.My favorite ESPN draft moment:
ESPN's coverage of the 1994 NFL draft was less than eight and a half minutes in which Kiper said, "The Colts have to come out of this draft with a quarterback." Tennessee's Heath Shuler and Fresno State's Trent Dilfer were regarded as sure-fire future NFL stars, and Indianapolis' starter was Jim Harbaugh. The Colts wound up with two of the first five picks. With No. 2, they chose running back Marshall Faulk from San Diego State. With the fifth pick -- Shuler having gone to the Washington Redskins with the third pick -- the Colts were expected to take Dilfer. Instead, they chose Trev Alberts, a linebacker from Nebraska. Kiper's reaction to this was "To pass up a Trent Dilfer, when all you have is Jim Harbaugh -- give me a break. That's why the Colts are picking second every year in the draft, not battling for the Super Bowl like other clubs in the National Football League."[2]
Less than 10 minutes later, at a location away from the draft site, ESPN's Chris Mortensen was interviewing Colts general manager Bill Tobin. Mortensen asked a question about the Colts' bypassing a quarterback with their top-five choices. Mortensen didn't mention Kiper in his question to Tobin. Tobin's 55-second response was "We got a guy up here ... and who in the hell is Mel Kiper, anyway? I mean, here's a guy who criticizes everybody, whoever they take. He's got the answers to who you should take, to who you shouldn't take. He tells us about your team. He tells us about the Rams. Mel Kiper is a tortoise. He tells us about Tampa and everything else. In my knowledge of him, he's never even put on a jockstrap, he's never been a player, he's never been a coach, he's never been a scout, he's never been an administrator, and all of a sudden, he's an expert. He's in our paper two days ago, telling us who we have to take. We don't have to take anybody that Mel Kiper says we have to take. Mel Kiper has no more credentials to do what he's doing than my neighbor, and my neighbor's a postman and he doesn't even have season tickets to the NFL.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kiper,_Jr.#cite_note-2
I think it was a year or two later that Harbaugh lead the Colts to the AFC Championship game and came a finger nail away from winning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kiper,_Jr.#cite_note-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kiper,_Jr.#cite_note-2
Don't understand the hate for Kiper. It's all subjective how these guys will do in the NFL, and no one hits on them all. See Maroney, L. and Jackson, C.
The biggest fault of the draft analysts is not missing on some key picks but that they focus so much on measurables. But then, there are GMs who look at WR speed as being more important than game tape, so you have Ashley Lelie and Donte Stallworth going in the first round, and Colston and Welker going in the 7th or undrafted.
The draft is a lot of fun, and Kiper and McShay and mayock hlep
