Thread: San Francisco Will drop Matt Stafford From draft consideration....

lol this is quite weird. First i didnt even think san fran had a shot at stafford...but they apprently felt they did.


Anyways:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl,151562


There are a number of reasons an NFL team wouldn't draft a certain quarterback. Maybe they'd be concerned about his arm strength, or footwork, or accuracy, or football IQ. There are literally dozens of flaws a signal caller might have. The San Francisco 49ers have found a new one.

Reports say that Mike Singletary and the Niners won't draft Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford because he was reluctant to talk to a team psychologist about his parent's divorce. Said Singletary:

"If you're going to look at drafting a guy in the first round, and you're going to pay him millions of dollars, and asking him about a divorce about his parents, if that's going to be an issue, uhhh, then you know what, maybe he doesn't belong here."

Let me get this straight: A 21-year old doesn't want to talk to some stranger about his parent's divorce? Inconceivable! Such a reaction surely portends NFL mediocrity!

Honestly, that's an utterly bizarre quote from Singletary. The 49ers have to do their due diligence in researching the backgrounds of draft picks, but what does not wanting to talk about a traumatic childhood event have to do with leading a football team?

The concern about psychology is especially strange coming from Singletary, who attempted to motivate his team last year by dropping his pants before giving a half-time speech. I'm pretty sure he got that idea from Freud.









wow funny stuff....

You think it was about his parents?

These guys are SO prepped and prepared for these interviews that they might as well send in a tape recorder to answer questions. If you REALLY want to get to know a player (as well as see how he performs when flustered), knock him off his game.

When Laurinaitis went in to interview with the Saints, he sat down, made eye contact with the interviewer, as the first question he was asked was "Tell me, who was the last linebacker from Ohio State that was actually worth a shit?".

I'll bet he wasn't ready for that one.

the primary purpose behind that line of questioning was to knock him off his game, make him squirm, and to see if he could handle himself the way a franchise QB would have to.

I don't think he showed that.

Originally Posted by Gamechanger

You think it was about his parents?

These guys are SO prepped and prepared for these interviews that they might as well send in a tape recorder to answer questions. If you REALLY want to get to know a player (as well as see how he performs when flustered), knock him off his game.

When Laurinaitis went in to interview with the Saints, he sat down, made eye contact with the interviewer, as the first question he was asked was "Tell me, who was the last linebacker from Ohio State that was actually worth a shit?".

I'll bet he wasn't ready for that one.

the primary purpose behind that line of questioning was to knock him off his game, make him squirm, and to see if he could handle himself the way a franchise QB would have to.

I don't think he showed that.

i dont know what it was, but you make a good point....i just posted it becasue it was hilarious to me and it was away from the cutler saga...lol