Mel Kiper Should Be Labeled

Don’t blame Tim Tebow if he doesn’t make it into the National Football League as a quarterback.
The fact that ESPN is talking about his throwing motion in February is asinine.
The NFL is the most overrated sporting event in the history of the world.
I wouldn’t even give the NFL the tag of "sporting event." It’s more like a dog and pony show, a cliché nobody really understands yet it’s relevant in this case. Does ESPN televise the dog and pony show?
Tebow’s throwing motion is irrelevant. NFL scoresconstantly miss on quarterbacks, running backs, and everything in between.
Leave Tebow alone and if he makes it, great.
ESPN has made the NFL a huge deal when it is about as important as the in Major League Soccer.
Remember on one of the first televised NFL telecasts on ESPN , Dan Marino was said to be a “bust.”
High school football and basketball recruiting is overrated, making 5-star players the messiah and 4-star players a huge disappointment when there is rarely a difference, just like the  and NBA .
How many players in the NFL last season were from places like Mount Union and Hofstra?
Obviously not as many as Miami (FL), USC, and Texas, so there is some substance to all of this madness.
The major point here is this… ESPN —a network I completely loathe for being the CNN of sports news—makes a Mount Everest out of a molehill.
Entirely too much time is spent on breaking down the top five punters and kickers, and don’t forget the “sleeper” punter from Midland Lutheran College in Nebraska.
Okay, bad joke.
The NFL consistently proves "critics" wrong.
It consistently makes people wonder why ESPN’s Mel Kiper, Jr. is in business. At least Todd McShay is tolerable, but he still shouldn’t be employed to break down seven rounds of players where 75 percent of them will be out of the league in three years.
Look at the quarterback position.
Many forget that when Peyton Manning was drafted No. 1 by the Indianapolis Colts, there was a loud cry from some fans that the Colts should have chosen Ryan Leaf from Washington State instead of Manning.
Imagine how different the entire NFL would be had that happened.
Your latest Super Bowl winning quarterback, Drew Brees of New Orleans, wasn’t even wanted by any Division I college in Texas before going to Purdue on a late offer without any Rivals or Scout stars.
Brees was a second round pick by San Diego in 2001 and has done pretty damn well for NFL shop being a player nobody wanted.
Michael Vick was the only quarterback selected in 2001 ahead of Brees.
Reggie Wayne (Indianapolis) and Todd Heap (Baltimore) were the 30th and 31st picks in the 2001 Draft, just ahead of Brees at No. 32.
Chad Ochocinco went to Cincinnati at No. 36 that year as well—pretty solid run of draft picks not even close to being invited to New York for the Draft.
Kiper salivated over Florida State defensive end Jamal Reynolds that year, the 10th pick to the Green Bay Packers. Reynolds had 18 tackles in his entire career.
Kiper alone has made a lot of bad players a lot of money by completely over-hyping them heading into the draft.
Other first round picks in 2001: David Terrell (eighth pick, Chicago, out of the league since 2007), Kenyatta Walker (14th pick, Tampa Bay, out of the league since 2007), Adam Archuleta (20th pick, St. Louis, last with the Las Vegas Locomotives), and Willie Middlebrooks (24th pick, Denver, now with Toronto of the CFL).
Obviously, you are going to find good players in the any draft. A guy named LaDanian Tomlinson was drafted in 2001, along with Santana Moss, Will Allen, Steve Smith (a third round pick that year), and T.J. Houshmandzadeh (seven round pick that year).
To be fair, some undrafted players that year included Antonio Pierce, Nick Harper, and Dominic Rhodes.
Obviously, the NFL is important to the development of franchises. However, the draft is way too over-hyped when you are talking about players where half of them will be determined as “busts”, and where there will be at least 10 players who have great NFL schedule careers being a fourth through seventh round pick.
For every Leaf, there is a Tom Brady.
For every Charles Rodgers, there is a Houshmandzadeh.
For every Bruce Pickens, there is a Shannon Sharpe.
Last week the big controversy was McShay moving Gerald McCoy of Oklahoma ahead of Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh in his mock draft. Both Big 12 defensive tackles, both dominate in their own ways.
Having covered McCoy’s high school career in Oklahoma City, there is actually some ways where McCoy could be better against the run than Suh. McCoy was the USA Today Defensive Player of the Year in high school.
Suh was unstoppable all year for Nebraska in 2009, getting an invitation to New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony.
McCoy—this coming from a confessed Nebraska fan—might be better than Suh and McShay could eventually be 100 percent right. McShay had Suh going No. 2 in his mock draft last May behind Oklahoma's Sam Bradford, long before the hype of Suh exploded in Lincoln last season.
You have shows like ESPN’s First Take expressing outrage over McCoy’s move over Suh, when McShay more than likely made the move after speaking to a source with the St. Louis Rams. St. Louis has the option to take whomever it wants, including Bradford.
Bradford is another point.
Had he left after his 2008 Heisman season, he would have been the quarterback of the Detroit Lions last season. Now, since he was injured completely out of his control, Kiper moves Notre Dame’s Jimmy Clausen ahead of Bradford when Bradford couldn’t stop raving about Bradford last year when NFL jerseys was up in the air whether Bradford would return to Norman or not.
Doesn’t make much sense. Does it?

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