Awsi Dooger
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This type of example doesn't help someone like Jeff Thomas, at least not in terms of draft position. Wide receiver is absolutely loaded year after year, in terms of guys who have "make it" grades at that position. You could fill at least a half dozen more teams if wide receiver were the only need. That's why guys like Stacy Coley are out of the league.
Consequently the league doesn't really need troublemakers and headcases at that position, not when they can grab somebody off the street or somebody's else's practice squad of similar caliber. Thomas is hardly going to be given benefit of a doubt like Josh Gordon year after year. The league took a chance on Antonio Calloway, who was always rated significantly higher than Thomas. He slipped to the 4th round and now is out of the league do to reoccurrences.
Getting his act together throughout the interview process is not enough. He needs to know exactly what to say and how to say it. These jerk types have gotten away with so much crap throughout their lives they assume it will be no different up the ladder. Thomas looked special in that high school all star game but in college the weaknesses were glaring, like meekly backtracking while waiting for the ball instead of fighting for it or drawing a penalty.
Mostly I don't understand why the guy formerly associated with this site continues to align with players like Willis and Thomas. That is not stealing a vital few percent in terms of probability. It is forfeiting a few percent. That was glaring last season when he somehow thought Willis was a first round talent, as if the league was going to ignore everything prior to 2018. That's not the way this stuff works. Even if Jeff Thomas aces everything now through April he's got warning signs strapped everywhere.
Consequently the league doesn't really need troublemakers and headcases at that position, not when they can grab somebody off the street or somebody's else's practice squad of similar caliber. Thomas is hardly going to be given benefit of a doubt like Josh Gordon year after year. The league took a chance on Antonio Calloway, who was always rated significantly higher than Thomas. He slipped to the 4th round and now is out of the league do to reoccurrences.
Getting his act together throughout the interview process is not enough. He needs to know exactly what to say and how to say it. These jerk types have gotten away with so much crap throughout their lives they assume it will be no different up the ladder. Thomas looked special in that high school all star game but in college the weaknesses were glaring, like meekly backtracking while waiting for the ball instead of fighting for it or drawing a penalty.
Mostly I don't understand why the guy formerly associated with this site continues to align with players like Willis and Thomas. That is not stealing a vital few percent in terms of probability. It is forfeiting a few percent. That was glaring last season when he somehow thought Willis was a first round talent, as if the league was going to ignore everything prior to 2018. That's not the way this stuff works. Even if Jeff Thomas aces everything now through April he's got warning signs strapped everywhere.
