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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
No, I did not. You stated that the Combine was a "miniscule part", which is false.
Zoom interviews will never replace face-to-face meetings. We're not talking about colleagues that are using Zoom for their job, we're talking about 40+ year old men interviewing 21 year old kids.
It's not the same.
That is completely false. There are always players that were initially pegged as Priority Free Agents that end up sneaking into the 5th, 6th and 7th rounds as well as guys that move up from being projected in the latter rounds to Day 2.
The reverse is also true.
You must be watching a different Combine each year than I am because each and every year, there are guys that run waaaaaaaay faster 40 times than expected and move up the boards, especially the small school guys, and there are guys that can't bench worth a shit that fall because they don't have the necessary strength to play in the NFL immediately.
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Go back and think about all these players that shoot up and down the boards. Do you need more than your 2 hands to count them in any given year?
The answer is no.
You're grossly overplaying the meaningfulness of it on the whole.
I'm not saying it isn't useful but it's not as useful as everything else prior to it. I'm also not saying you're wrong in that some players shoot up or down because of it.
The point is, really, that teams aren't going to miss out on too many players by not having a combine. They'll miss some. They'll get some UDFAs that maybe should have been drafted. They might get some steals on injured players. But as a whole, it's not going to make some monumental difference.
Teams have already set their boards. At this point, it's relatively minor shuffling and capturing a few outliers.