Thursday, January 19, 2017

Fire Mel Kiper Jr.

How in the world can Mel Kiper Jr. place the North Carolina Tar Heels QB, Mitch Trubisky (freshman) ahead of Deshaun Watson in his bullshit "Mock Draft?"

In 3 years, Watson - a 2-time Heisman Trophy Winner finalist (should have definitely won this past season) and a 2-time Davey O'Brien Award Winner (awarded to the best QB for a particular season), 2015 and 2016 - has a won-loss record of 38 wins and 5 losses, 3 of the losses came in his Freshman season, but dominated the Oklahoma Sooners in the Citrus Bowl.

Watson's sophomore and junior seasons, he had a record of 28 wins 2 losses and topped of his career with a National Championship.. and Mel Kiper Jr. puts Trubisky ahead of Watson on his inconsequential draft board. Give me a freakin' break.


Below is Deshaun Watson's very impressive record for his 3 years at Clemson:
  • 2014, 10-3, Defeated Okla Sooners 40-6 in Citrus Bowl
  • 2015, 14-1, Loss in Championship Game, 45-40 to Alabama (he doesn't play on defense so one can surmise that Watson played fairly well (I watched the game as most sports fans did and Deshaun was clearly the best player on the field).
  • 2016, 14-1, Defeated Alabama in Championship Game, 35-31
Nothing against Mitch because if you ask him, he might tell you that his abilities are no match for Deshaun (maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't, that's not the issue).

Trubisky's 2016 record with the Tar Heels, 8 wins and 5 losses, and he lost his last 3 out of 4 games to end the season: Duke, NC State and a loss in the Sun Bowl to Stanford. Kiper provides an excuse for the Stanford loss stating that the N.C. offensive line could not block Stanford's Solomon Thomas.

Mel Kiper Jr. needs to be fired. His obvious partisan toward Trubisky over Watson has less to do with talent and who the best QB going into the 2017 NFL Draft, and more to do with something else. I won't broach the race card, but I'm not sure what else it could be.


Like many NFL pundits, who really don't know their collective asses from holes in the ground, Kiper was way off on the Cowboys phenomenal rookie Dak Prescott. Here's what he stated:

"Dallas was interested in getting into range for Paxton Lynch, and also missed out on a chance to draft Connor Cook when the Raiders traded up. Dak Prescott is a solid guy to have on the bench, but I question the starting upside, and I had Brandon Allen ranked higher."

And that's just one of many of his poor predictions. What are they really paying this guy for? Geesh! SMH! OMG!

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