Cowboys and the Combine: Where experts aren’t always right
NFL Combine experts thought Kellen Moore didn’t belong in the league. Fortunately, there isn’t a combine to become a Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator.
The members of the Dallas Cowboys‘ front office are currently evaluating future prospects at the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana. You’ll have to excuse my lack of knowledge on college football prospects. Every year, I remind Cowboy Nation that I stopped watching college football after the Cowboys newest offensive coordinator, Kellen Moore, graduated from Boise State.
As if I need to remind anyone, as quarterback of the Boise State Broncos, Moore finished with a record of 50-3. His team probably would’ve went undefeated, if they had a better field goal kicker. If there was a petition to rename the Heisman trophy after Kellen Moore, I would rapidly sign it.
I realized I had witnessed the greatest player in the history and future of college football, so there was no longer any need to watch that sport anymore. Unfortunately, Moore’s story caused me to lose faith and interest in the NFL combine. I just watched this kid break every college football record (okay, that’s definitely a slight over-exaggeration), but the experts felt Moore wouldn’t be a great NFL quarterback because of his hand size, height or weight.
These are the same experts that missed on Cowboys’ legendary quarterback Tony Romo, the most prolific passer in team history. Yet, the combine experts will convince you that your team would be better to draft a quarterback like JaMarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf or Drew Henson. Highly praised prospects with notoriously short, unproductive NFL careers.
I occasionally marvel at how long slow motion replays of various defensive tackles running a 40-yard dash holds my interest. Eventually, I found the whole combine to be ridiculously overrated. As I always remind people – You can’t measure the immeasurables.
Now, I pull for the undrafted underdogs. These are the players that I point to and scream that the experts miss. My favorite example of insanity is when a quarterback is asked to play an alternative position after reaching the game’s highest level.
Ohio State’s quarterback Terrelle Pryor, converted to wide receiver in the NFL. Nebraska’s quarterback Eric Crouch, Heisman Trophy winner asked to be a wide receiver and safety because he was deemed too short. Florida’s Tim Tebow started as a quarterback, but was asked to be a tight end or fullback because he was awful as a passer.
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Fortunately, there isn’t a combine for offensive coordinators. So, the rumor that I’m starting right now, is that Kellen Moore is in a dark basement developing plays in a notebook like Coach Klein. Great plays. Awesome plays. Plays that humans have never seen before in the history of the NFL. Plays that will be analyzed by supercomputers for decades. You’re going to love it, just wait and watch.
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