For Ausbacker on Curran:
1. And Bryant has either fed into or been responsible for all of it.
Bryant is not the one feeding stories to the media about his past, or the one making up rumors pre-draft.
2.
He got himself mobbed up with Deion Sanders even though it was pretty clear that Sanders' "advising" Michael Crabtree didn’t help Crabtree a bit.
Mobbed up with the Christians! Because Deion makes his kids attend church. Oh, we have another mobbed up Deion thug on the team too, Darius Butler!
3. His efforts at explaining himself were fine, but then he should have dropped it and moved on. Instead, he kept circling back like a fish finding the same hook.
He was asked repeatedly about this at the combine and afterwards. What do you want him to say? I refuse to talk about it? Please.
4. When he was criticized for forgetting his cleats before his personal workout, he had a lengthy explanation.
It wasn't lengthy. It was short. He brought 6 pairs of cleats, but not his best.
5. When he was asked a ridiculous and insulting question by a team during an interview, he shared the question with the media. When pressed to reveal who asked it, Bryant complied and said it was the Dolphins.
No, when pressed, he did not comply and reveal it was the Dolphins. Someone who Bryant informed privately about the matter revealed it was the Dolphins. Curran is playing loose with the truth.
6. Then he got into a public “he-said, I-said” over how the question came to be asked.
???
7. He’s told anyone who will listen how he intends to make the teams that passed on him pay.
Let's kick Moss off the team. He said the same thing. As have countless other players.
8.
Since 2000, 44 wide receivers have been taken in the first round of the NFL Draft. By my accounting, 34 have either been "Useless" or "Meh" as pros. Of the other eight (I omitted this year’s two first-rounders), five have been pretty good. Three have been excellent.
All of us on the draft board did this same exact exercise, and the percentage of busts or meh was much lower.
Not Useless:
Rod Gardner
Robert Meachem
Darrius Heyward-Bey
Kenny Britt
Hakeem Nicks
Better than Meh:
Santana Moss
Javon Walker
Santonio Holmes
Dwayne Bowe
Michael Crabtree
Jeremy Maclin
9. With Bryant, it’s all projections and platitudes.
No s___. He hasn't played a game yet.
10. I don’t think either of them will be able to live up to the hype, expectations or scrutiny. Tebow stands a better chance because he’s going to be protected in Denver and given a chance to develop.
This is an embarrassing article by a writer who should do better.
