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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.He also played in the effin Sr Bowl vs NFL talent under tremendous scrutiny and did well by all accounts (other than the 1 practice rep at Center vs Travis Jones shown endlessly by the media trying to disparage him).He played against Javon Kinlaw (South Carolina, 14th overall in 2020) on November 17, 2018, and Josh Paschal (Kentucky, 46th overall in 2022) on September 18, 2021.
This guy threw a strike While wearing a bullet proof vest. Didn’t seem that hard.
Roger Clemens seems to do alright lifting and throwing
Of course it is a problem. It is said that he might have a future as a Center (Fielder I assume?), and he can't throw a baseball? Very disturbing.So now we're criticizing Cole Strange because he can't throw a baseball?
Rookie Minicamp hasn't even started yet. The whole thing is bizarre. It say's more about the people posting then anything else. Enjoy the game...enjoy the process...go outside and go for a walk...you only live once.So now we're criticizing Cole Strange because he can't throw a baseball?
Figures you'd be right in there agreeing with the stupidest post of the year.Wow, just watched that "first pitch"... disturbing.
Of course you would. Just please remind everyone how many SB rings you have so we know why you should be given more credit than Belichick..They should have reached for WR John Metchie III instead. Would have also removed the questionable receiver they took in the 2nd. Could have taken G Ed Ingram of LSU at #54. Metchie and Ingram over Strange and Thornton... I would do that.
So f'in what? Barstool is only good for making fun of Goodell. Other than that, they bring nothing to the table.Cole Strange Joins the Ceremonial First Pitch Hall of Shame
Cole Strange Joins the Ceremonial First Pitch Hall of Shame
Michael Dwyer. Shutterstock Images.The Patriots decision to draft Cole Strange in the first round was, to put it mildly, a controversial one. Even many who like the player contend that he was taken s...bars.tl
Barstool not impressed with the pitch
What exactly did I agree with??Figures you'd be right in there agreeing with the stupidest post of the year.
Just shutdown the forum then. Because no one's perceptive on anything is of any use because they don't have a Super Bowl ring. This is worst comeback ever for not liking someone's POV... you don't know crap because you never played the game professionally or won Super Bowls.Of course you would. Just please remind everyone how many SB rings you have so we know why you should be given more credit than Belichick..
99% of the time there's no such thing as a "riser" or "faller". It just doesn't work like that. Almost all the time it's bc of injury or character grade and might change if new info becomes available like anyone else but guys don't drop multiple rounds or "shoot" up the board. It's just that the media doesn't find about it until later. I've tried preaching this forever but it's the same thing more or less with "reaches" & "steals".When there is a "reach", it means the media draftniks failed to forecast correctly. If they had known what they were doing, they should have said something like "we believe most teams had [3rd round] grades on [player], but some teams might have him as high as a [1st round] grade on him because [reasons]". When they are surprised (like with Strange) it means they failed in their forecast, and cover it up by blaming the team that made the surprisingly early pick.
Doubters would feel different about the Strange pick if the media draftniks had forecast it correctly.
It's even worse when there is a "steal", because in that case a draftnik touted player is publicly passed over by every team, completely invalidating the draftniks consensual hallucination. To cover their failure, they claim that the team that eventually picks the player as having made a "steal" when it was instead a massive forecasting failure by draftniks. The correct analysis would have been something like "we believe the highest any team will take [player] is round [n] but we also believe the player should actually be picked in round [n + m] for [reasons].
"Reaches" and "steals" are just indicators of failures to forecast draft day. True "value" of players picked and the true opportunity cost can only be determined years later based on actual performance, and even then there is uncertainty because of semi-random factors like injury and the difficulty to even retroactively assess team specific fit.
This is not to say the draftnik efforts are useless; they are hugely entertaining to us the public and provide us very interesting detailed introductions to players (even more so if they are team specific like BGC's) And the draft scoring game is fun just like fantasy football is fun.
But draftnik efforts are not particularly relevant to teams. I believe the only teams that factor in media pre-draft consensus about "value" are teams that have ownership, management or coaching running scared about fan opinion because of a record of poor actual team performance.
Mayock was well liked but never good at evaluating talent tbh. Great entertainment, again everyone loved hearing him talk but if you looked back on who he was pounding the table for you'd see some gods awful picks. He was really good at keeping things interesting and would speak his mind but I don't ever remember hearing people talk about how good he was as an evalautor tbh. What's funny is Gruden might be worse. He was terrible too. Ill never forget him screaming for Johnny Football as a top 5 pick. Both were terrible.To illustrate the level of BS involved, consider Mike Mayock's fate: he was highly respected by the public as a media draftnik and hired because of that -- but was a joke as an actual general manager. Now he can't show his face in public.
I think the best of the best on the "outside" or "amateurs" would do just as well if not better given the chance tbh. Obviously a small, select few.Yeah, if Kiper and the rest of his type ever had to be accountable for their analysis and prognostications, they'd be assistant managers at Denny's. Those guys would have their lunch money taken repeatedly by the dozen or so really competent NFL personnel offices.
Tell me again what a tremendous athlete he is……
My 6 year old granddaughter can throw better than that!
They should have reached for WR John Metchie III instead. Would have also removed the questionable receiver they took in the 2nd. Could have taken G Ed Ingram of LSU at #54. Metchie and Ingram over Strange and Thornton... I would do that.
Which is why I said I would have preferred they reached for Metchie. Absent the ACL tear 44 isn't too early. Once he's back to full health he'll have bigtime potential as an NFL slot receiver. His floor is much higher than Thornton's in my opinion.I thought Metchie at 44 was way too early.
Not as early as BoneyT was at 54 of course...
"Draftniks" are relevant, actually important, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. Obviously not everyone, it's an oversaturated market but some are very useful.
They're the first look, a baseline on prospects long before the NFL puts a value on them. And if you play that out to it's conclusion the consensus board hit almost 85% of the top 150 drafted this past draft and has been very close in the past. That's pretty excellent considering.
Without that exposure though fans wouldn't know Jordan Richards was a terrible pick, for example. They'd be in the dark and basically just have to take the teams word for it as to why the drafted someone that high or drafted them at all.