Jarvis Jones, Morris Claiborne, Patrick Peterson, Rolando McClain, Eric Berry, Glenn Dorsey, Patrick Willis, and David Pollack were all drafted in the first round, Demeco Ryans was drafted in round #2, and Chad Lavalais was drafted in round #5. Secondly, he didn't say that Sam is the best defensive football player in the SEC he said that Sam was the best defensive player in college football's best conference, which is true because he was named SEC Defensive Player of the Year.īut let's go back to that "lack of college football knowledge" thing, and I'm going to poke a big ol' hole in your entire argument.įACT: The SEC Defensive Player of the Year Award has been handed out 11 times, going back to 2003. First of all, you missed the point if you think that his "lack of football knowledge" prevents him from having a quality opinion. Unfortunately, your comment is way off base. Think I'm wrong about the media's romance with the victim mentality? Answer this - Would this reporter have gone on this dripping-with-emotion rant if he had found out that the "#1 defensive player in college football" - who was straight - was projected "shockingly" as a "3rd to 5th round NFL draft pick"?.Yeah. Now, when Sams gets drafted in late round 4 or whatever, every ignorant local TV sports show guy will scream sexual-orientation discrimination, and we will have yet another manufactured victim of our everybody-is-a-victim society. If college was essentially the minor league for playing on Sundays, Heisman winners Charlie Ward and Tim Tebow would be NFL legends today. "#1 defensive player in the NCAA" does not necessarily translate to "#1 defensive pick in the NFL draft". Again the reporter uses a lot of great cliches to build an argument, but he obviously knows nothing about college football and it's relation to the pros. Rating experts like Mel Kiper and others have had him at 3rd, 4th, or 5th round long before he proclaimed his sexual orientation. That strategy forms the basis of a great argument, but on the other hand, most revisionist history pretty much does the same thing. Sorry - Stopped listening about a minute after he indicated that 'The top rated defenseman in college football is only projected to be a 3rd or 5th round draft pick - that is shocking'.The reporter is obviously trying to imply a connection between Sams' announcement of being gay, and his projected draft position.
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