Top 2 QBs Will Skip Combine

Crap, I was hoping to see how these two held up under the media pressure of the combine. At their Pro Days it is more laid back and it takes place at their colleges, so that where you always see better proformances. The combine really evaluates how well they hold up under pressure and in a hostile, for some, media enviroment.

Eric Berry at #6, Sam Bradford at #14, and Ryan Matthews at #40. That would be awesome, but unlikely that Bradford and Matthews fall that far. Our o-line can be patched up by the new coaching and free agency, Berry, Bradford, Matthews, Curry, and Carlson are the foundation of the seahawks for the better part of the next decade and form a dynasty. All of these players future HOF! It's okay to dream, isn't it? No matter how unrealistic that is.

Oh and I forgot to mention Pete Carrol will be the next Bill Walsh, and he will also make the HOF! Berry the next Ed Reed, Curry the next Derrick Brooks, Matthews the next Shaun Alexander, Carlson the next Tony Gonzales, and Bradford will be in a category of his own, that's how good he'll be for the Seahawks. Before Bradford takes over, Hasselbeck will have a resillient season and lead the seahawks to the superbowl and win it in a couple of years. This results in Hasselbeck's career seen as a HOF career. Hasselbeck then retires while on top, like elway, except this would be much more unexpected because Hasselbeck doesn't quite measure up to elway. Following Hasselbeck's retirement, the Carrol-Bradford era begins. They win a few superbowls, no big deal.

Seahawks are the team of the decade, no one saw it coming, with six hall of famers shining throughout the decade. Seven if you include Hasselbeck, but that isn't really throughout the decade.

I'm getting way ahead of myself

There's nothing wrong with being optimistic, I'm not going to get my hopes up for all of that to happen though.

He had surgery on his foot and is wearing a boot cast its not a cop out that he won't be throwing at the combine.

I like it!! Nothing wrong with hopes and dreams.

as far as I have heard and read, both these guys will still be in Indy next week for interviews and medical evaluations, plus the ever-famous Wonderlic test. Frankly, I am more curious about Clausen's interviews and Bradford's health right now. We'll see their field skills at their pro days next month, and can look at hours of college tape.

If a lot of teams had focused on college tape of Michael Oher last season instead of the combine, Oher would never have fallen to the Ravens at number 21 and someone else would have themselves a the bgest OT from the last two drafts for the next decade.

The combine is an artificial media frenzy that the top athletes specifically prepare for by attending training camps (paid for by their agents looking to improve their clients draft stock and their pocketbook in the process) where they focus on just those events to be run at the combine and learn techniques to get a little extra speed or distance or lift in the weight room.

History is littered with guys who have attended one of those training camps and come out and just aced combine events then moved way up the draft board only to be ultimately found to be the same old player they were scouted to be in college not some super improved football warrior who came out of nowhere. They may have improved their combine skills but the game we're playing is still football not combine track and field events and game film will tell you much more about that player than the combine.

For a player who is largely unknown, the combine can be a great chance to open some eyes if you have the goods to showcase. For greedy agents who have invested heavily in their clients draft stock by paying for the camps where their clients are trained to excel at combine events, it's a chance to move up the draft board and get a larger payday. For some players (like Oher) it's also a risk of slipping and dropping down the draft board too if GM's around the league put more stock in combine events over actual game film.

Instead of a one day event, game film is three or four years of showing what that player can do day in and day out against the best competition. Once again using Oher as an example (because I know a lot about him and his struggles), on film, Oher was a top 5 pick and touted as the possible number one pick at one time. After having problems at the combine turning in a not so good showing there and rumors of off field problems which turned out to be largely unfounded, he fell to number 21 where based on last years play, Oher looks to be the best OT taken over the last two years.

Oher went through massive personal problems growing up and overcame them to become a top prospect and some GM's lost sight of what kind of effort it takes to not only rise above the obstacles life throws in front of you but to excel in your endeavors despite those problems. It was all on the game film and in the book telling his story. Instead, GM's believed the version they saw at the combgine and the rest is history and the Ravens have a dominant OL despite drafting out of the top 20. We should be so lucky this year.

For guys like Bradford and Clausen who are already slated to go in the top 5 picks and are shown in most mocks as the number one pick, about the only thing that can happen is to do something that would cause them to drop down the board. I mean if you're already considered a top 5 pick (or number one), why mess with fate? The only place to go is down from there.

Thanks, hard to argue with sound logic.

History is littered with guys who have attended one of those training camps and come out and just aced combine events then moved way up the draft board only to be ultimately found to be the same old player they were scouted to be in college not some super improved football warrior who came out of nowhere. They may have improved their combine skills but the game we're playing is still football not combine track and field events and game film will tell you much more about that player than the combine

it is very nice