Yeah, there's a lot of talk about
the scouting combine, whether it's a necessity,
whether it's you go away whether it should be changed
every Jones meeting with reporters. Lastly, specifically
wanted to be asked about it so he could share his thoughts
among other things. He said he's for continuing to work
to really make this thing appropriate. I think we can
make it just exactly like it would if you were interviewing
for a major company or something like that and ask
those kinds of questions players really should in my
mind appreciate the promotion,
they really should.
And I know it's effective, I know, it's financially,
impacting individuals making them better. If you really want
to maximize how this could turn out for you. To me, you should
take advantage of the opportunities that you might
have. That's not anything to just business. So basically
saying it's not personal, it's just business but
I'll defer to what I wrote last night because we're going to
end up spending the rest of the show. Arguing about this. The
NFL benefits tremendously from the fact that
this is not the way a major company works because you know
what, Chris, when an applicant shows up for a job with
the major, Company.
If the major company pisses the applicant off
the applicant goes and work somewhere else,
when you are in a draft environment, you can piss that
applicant off all you want. You can still draft him and force
him to come work for you if you choose to and I think the fact
that these guys have no real alternative
is one of the reasons it's contributed to
these intrusive and dehumanizing
factors
not to mention the fact that they're all conditioned to
believe it's an honor and a privilege to be asked intrusive
and dehumanizing questions and be paraded around in there.
Underwear and to be asked to go out and, you know, perform
the dog and pony show for money,
not for them, but for the league on the surface of Lucas
Oil Stadium. So the whole thing is happening Under the Umbrella
of you have no alternative, you're going to submit to this
draft and you may get drafted by that team. That pissed you
off mightily when they met with
you at the combine. Yeah I get that. It's not you know
maybe prototypical or maybe not totally ideal. It is tough.
It is it And yeah, I wish there was a, you know, maybe a hair
more respect or
you know, a little bit better tactical type of questions and
we do definitely you know seem to
are towards disrespect every now and then and every year we
kind of seem to hear one story of that when it's comes to
teams questioning applier, whatever. I still think it's
a very necessary tools. We've discussed the combine and all
of that.
And, you know, at the same time to
it is a little different than most job jobs out there. Are
too because it's it is in the public eye. It's the biggest
thing in our country, it's very young. People being thrown tons
of money. So you got to
ask some tough questions and do some digging to
figure out those guys and yeah, it's not ideal.
I get it but
it's still a pretty damn good system. They got is what
I would say, but it's not perfect. And yeah, there's some
things I could do to tweak it and least make it a little bit
better for players.
The young players are being thrown tons of money because
the team's want the best possible players because they
want to win football games, and they have to spend that money.
That's the thing.
We always lose sight of the fact that this is for
the benefit of the teams to find the best possible players and
somebody's going to be picked first. Overall, somebody's
going to pick s. Somebody going to be picked in every spot.
They want to make sure they're getting the players that help
them be the best. They can be as a team. But somebody's
getting all that. That's the thing. Idea that it helps
the players. Well, it may help some players that may hurt other
players.
It helps the team's,
it helps the teams,
use their draft picks as best, they possibly can. That's who
it's for, it's not for the players. It's for the teams and
it's disingenuous for Jerry Jones, act like it benefits,
the players it benefits
the team's, it helps them sure. The best players that will help
the team win football games, it helps us. That's what it's all
about. It helps them more, no doubt, but it
does help the players. I mean it does. I don't you. Not argue
that to it does help. I mean we have. Wow. Has it helped them.
Well one, I mean again the workout itself helps people we
see that happen every year where it opens a whoa.
Whoa. He is what I thought. He wasn't filmer. Whoa,
you know, I wasn't sure like we talked about and proud a well.
Okay. But you know, you get a better look at hair but not
always your perfect thing. And then but also you get a more of
a chance to to
hey, I'm just saying to sell yourself.
Right? And there is a lot of T. Oh man, we met him. And whoa,
did we love this guy?
No, we kind of thought he was this type of player, but now we
get to see him in person and measure him and do that type of
stuff and got to talk to him. Whoa, he jumped up 20 or 30
spots for us on our draft board. It does help them, but
yeah, ultimately, you're right. It
favors the league and the process, they are. But like,
again, I'm not going to argue against it. It's the number one
sports league in the world. It's not even close right now.
As far as what it makes. So, you know, it is working pretty
damn well, as far as what we got right now in this formula,
But here's the point, here's the point.
The scouting combine
has issues and problems with the way. The players are
treated because they can because the teams can again,
because the players don't get to choose where they go,
imagine how differently, and I don't want to start into
an argument about
that. I think the draft should go away because I still think
the draft should go away. But if there was no draft and you
had to recruit these kids, no one would be asked, is your
mother a prostitute.
No one would be asked.
Intrusive questions. They would be kissing their asses if they
had to recruit them. That's the one tangible benefit to
the players of there being no draft. They would no longer
treat. You like pieces of meat they would treat you like human
beings that had to form
a relationship with you to get you to choose to go work for
them. That would be a very tangible benefit to the players
right out of the gates because now you're recruited, you're
not treated as just like somebody who we get to pick and
choose who
we want and you have no say over.
Right. Yeah, it would help the player I again. It's everyone.
Well I think again I think we got into lawyers and young kids
that were coming out we're going. Hey, we're gonna throw
you millions of dollars right away, there would be some more
research into their life. And maybe
some of those questions asked to, there's not quite that
risk. And a lot of other, you know,
worlds of business, you can find all that out. You can find
all that out without treating them like s*** face to face.
That's my point. A lot of these players get treated like s***
face to face. It's gotten better and they're more
sensitive to it. It but it's
all part of this Macho head game that they play with these
guys and I'd like to think that that's evolving out of
the sport because that doesn't prove anything for anyone.
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