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Posted on 2/28/13 at 5:19 pm to wildtigercat93
Exactly. I don't pretend to be, but I do know enough that calling a guy average or slow and then having him run a 4.3 40 is hysterical.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 5:37 pm to DelU249
LINK
PFT is really fricking with NFL.COM now.
PFT is really fricking with NFL.COM now.
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But here’s what is a little odd: For all four of the white wide receivers that NFL.com profiled, the “NFL comparison” is another white wide receiver.
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After I wrote about Swope, I got a call from NFL.com Senior Editor Andy Fenelon. He was not happy. Fenelon lectured me about how unfair I was, demanded that I explain myself to him, and informed me that he stands by what NFL.com published.
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And after taking that closer look, I don’t think I was unfair at all. White receivers are, in fact, exclusively compared to other white receivers. (Read the profiles of Swope and the other white wide receivers, Brandon Kaufman, T.J. Moe and Conner Vernon and see for yourself.) White receivers are praised by NFL.com for their good hands and their toughness, but downgraded for their speed. All four profiles demonstrate the stereotypes we’ve all heard about white receivers a million times.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 5:46 pm to lighter345
Posted on 2/28/13 at 6:06 pm to jimithing11
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Swope played slow at A&M,
Posted on 2/28/13 at 6:44 pm to lighter345
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PFT is really fricking with NFL.COM now.
Just read that
Florio does have a valid point though
I know JOrdy Nelson comes up a lot because I guess it's easier to relate to players of the same race. It shouldn't be that way, but who else do you compare Swope to? There really isn't a bench mark.
Tavon Austin to Welker is natural because they are both small guys who are super quick and hard to cover in space.
There are a ton of big, strong, fast guys in the NFL, so I'm not sure where to throw Swope in the mix and apparently NFL.com doesn't either
Posted on 2/28/13 at 7:18 pm to jimithing11
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Second, he doesn't look like a 4.3 guy on tape. Not sure what is so hard to understand. Either you are just being ornery or you legit don't know anything about football
What's not so hard to understand about the fact that anyone who said he "played slow at A&M" like you did is barely above a functioning ruhtard.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 7:21 pm to DelU249
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I get that, but for ME the difference between a 4.2 and a 4.5 is not important.
Lol, I'm glad you don't draft for the Saints.
No one is saying the 40 is the end-all/be-all, but to think there's not a difference between a 4.2 and a 4.5 is absolutely insane. Three tenths of a second is almost as big a difference between Chris Johnson and Mark Ingram.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 7:27 pm to FootballNostradamus
The only point I'm trying to make is 4.5 isn't slow.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 7:46 pm to jimithing11
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Second, he doesn't look like a 4.3 guy on tape. Not sure what is so hard to understand. Either you are just being ornery or you legit don't know anything about football
exactly how much "tape" have you watched of Swope to make a claim like that?
I'm betting its only a few plays in a couple random games.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 7:53 pm to jimithing11
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I know JOrdy Nelson comes up a lot because I guess it's easier to relate to players of the same race. It shouldn't be that way, but who else do you compare Swope to? There really isn't a bench mark.
this is pretty silly.
you compare him to every other player who plays a similar position
Posted on 3/1/13 at 7:29 am to DelU249
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The only point I'm trying to make is 4.5 isn't slow.
It's not but Swope is stunningly fast. I really don't know how anyone who watched him this year couldn't see that. Hell he torched almost every SEC secondary. It's not like he was some sleeper.
The kid got the white boy treatment bigtime. It's not the biggest deal in the world, more funny than anything (especially after his dominant Combine performance). However, for anyone to say the kid "ran slow at A&M" you'd literally have to be Stevie Wonder to make such a claim.
Posted on 3/1/13 at 8:03 am to lighter345
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PFT is really fricking with NFL.COM now.
Good. At best, NFL.com was very lazy (or stupid?) in their evaluations of white WRs. At worst, they were racist in their evaluations. Either way, the criticism is justified.
Posted on 3/1/13 at 8:18 am to Patrick_Bateman
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At worst, they were racist
Posted on 3/1/13 at 8:31 am to DelU249
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NFL.com seemed to be falling into the usual stereotypes about white receivers, describing Swope as a hard worker with good hands who lacks straight-line speed, while saying the NFL player most similar to Swope is another white guy, Jordan Shipley.
that's funny b/c shipley was pretty damn fast for a white boy
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