Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The terrible falibility of NFL scouts, Part III

There are 23 quarterbacks enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio. True believers might think they were all #1 draft picks. Perish the thought! The Canton Roster is one of the greatest points proving the terrible fallibility of men like Mel Kiper Jr. Consider the following names:
  1. Fran Tarkenton 3rd round pick
  2. Dan Fouts 3rd round pick
  3. Norm Van Brocklin 4th round pick
  4. Sonny Jurgensen 4th round pick
  5. Bob Waterfield 5th round pick
  6. John Unitas 9th round pick
  7. Roger Staubach 10th round pick
  8. Bart Starr 17th round pick
  9. Warren Moon Undrafted
That is a pretty nasty list, if you are a talent scout. Every one of these men constitutes a clear-cut case of NFL scouting failure. A future Hall of Famer was not identified as such. A gem was missed.

I can just hear guys like Kiper screaming "That's not fair! Nobody could have known that a short scrambler like Tarkenton would do what he did!" That is only because you have settled upon the wrong criteria. The doctrines you subscribe to (measurable & tangibles) are false idols. Your ideology is wrong. Your organizational paradigm is poor.

NFL talent scouts are horrendously fallible & notoriously unreliable because they believe in false doctrines, use bad criteria, and subscribe to the wrong paradigm. That's why we can't trust your judgment.