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Originally Posted by staylor26
Oh here we go, so you could easily be a scout but you chose not to?
It’s not that the NFL didn’t want kccrow, kccrow didn’t want the NFL! You’re so full of shit it’s unbelievable. |
I never had any interest in becoming an NFL scout. I like to talk about the draft, discuss players and their values, formulate my own opinions, but never wanted to be an NFL scout.
The biggest reason? I have a family. The time commitment away from home to be an NFL scout is insane. You might be home two days a month during the football season. It's not for someone with a family.
Is it hard to be an NFL scout? No, not especially, provided you played or coached football at the collegiate level, took classes in physiology and biomechanics, are a very proficient communicator (both oral and written), and take a 3rd party course in writing for scouting. Then, you better either know somebody or put your application in and hope they like what they see. You know, kind of like any other job that requires some baseline knowledge beyond 10th grade (oh, you wouldn't know that).
Aside from taking a 3rd party course in writing for scouting and knowing a regional scout/director or GM personally, I do have all of those prerequisites. I don't want to be an NFL scout. I don't pretend to be an NFL scout. They are privy to information I would never have access to about players.
That private information is usually the reason for highly touted players falling. Even guys like Mike Mayock didn't know until during the draft that there were issues with guys like Derrius Guice. You can't fault someone for projecting him higher based on ability.
You participate in the same exact activities I do on an annual basis. Somehow, you believe you are suddenly above the rest of us that do this. The only person full of shit, staylor, is you. Quit being a pretentious little bitch.