Glad they are all over the picks again......fuckin aye
Glad they are all over the picks again......fuckin aye
i brought this subject up briefly in one of the many draft threads, and this guy seems to have also picked up on it
http://www.outsports.com/2015/4/30/8...hael-sam-draft
shane ray and micheal sam, almost identical players. same position, same team, same coach, same system, same type of production. in fact, ray was sams backup until sam graduated.
one got busted for drugs the week of the draft and slides but still goes in the first round. the other comes out as gay after being named SEC defensive player of the year, and goes with one of the last picks in the draft, and still can't find a job even though the on field talent and passion is there, not even as a backup special teams player
it sure does seem like the nfl has a problem with gays, even though they say they don't
message to other gay football players, "don't ask, don't tell"
sam ran a 4.73 at his pro day, on the same track that ray ran a 4.68, i think it was
ray did 21 reps, sam did 19
ray had a 33 inch vert, sam had a 30
neither did any of the on field drills at the combine
other "measurables", ray is an inch taller, sam was 10 pounds heavier (but still considered too small to be a DE, not a problem for ray)
as the article mentions, the college stats were almost identical, the players were almost identical. when sam came out, people said he didn't test well, and you can't just judge a guy by what he did in college on film. when ray dissappointed at his pro day, the same people said, you can't look at the numbers, you can see on the game film how good he is
40 YARD DASH: 4.91 SEC
BENCH PRESS: 17 REPS
VERTICAL JUMP: 25.5 INCH
BROAD JUMP: 114.0 INCH
3 CONE DRILL: 7.80 SEC
20 YARD SHUTTLE: 4.70 SEC
His numbers were pretty bad.
Don't know if I totally buy that, especially the part about 'on field talent'. Everything I've seen about Sams is that he was a marginal talent who was never seen as a player who would go in the first few rounds of the draft even before he came out.
I'd say he was hurt a lot more by running a 4.9 forty, follow by a > 5sec time at the veteran combine didn't help.
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7.8 3 cone is basically undraftable as an edge rusher... the reason he got drafted was his college productivity alone. Btw, I think Ray is a better than average bust candidate. The fact he is not a taboobuster is only a slight bonus.
Longer arms than Sam. Bigger frame, with potential for growth. Taller. Drastically better vertical jump and more explosive. Much better all around athlete. Sam would never have been drafted in the first four rounds because of a myriad of things that have nothing to do with his sexuality. I do think it's more than likely that coming out hurt his draft stock a bit, but that was more to do with the media than biggotry on the part of the NFL.
The fact he is not on a roster right now has much more to do with how bad he is than his choice of sexual partner. If Vic Beasley came out a few weeks before the draft, he would absolutely have been drafted by the end of the 3rd round. Probably well before then.
Last edited by smuggler; 05-07-2015 at 01:15 AM.
you want to throw out some more flat out lies to try and make your point?
arms-
ray- 33 1/8
sam- 33 3/8
sam has longer arms
weight
ray-245
sam- 261
height
ray-6'3
sam- 6'2
wow, soooo much taller
hands
ray- 9"
sam- 9 3/8
verticle (at mizzou pro day)
ray- 33
sam- 30
wow, 3 inches is drastically better?
the 3 cone, sams big downfall
sam had a 7.80
ray- 7.60
better, but still shitty compared to most. (vic beasly had a 6.91, clay did it in 6.90 for reference)
shuttle
ray 4.58
sam 4.70
both shitty and not that different (cm3 had a 4.18)
mike mayock came out and flat out said ray didn't have a good pro day, said he looked "stiff in the hips", same thing that sam had a problem with
paul dawson, had worse numbers then sam in every category, but went in the third
like i said earlier. when ray didn't do anything at the combine and disappointed at his pro day, the "experts" said, "forget the number, watch the tape"
when sam had a bad combine and pro day, the same exact experts said "forget how good the tape looks, the numbers tell us everything"
yeah, but ray didn't do anything at the combine, except the bench, because of a foot injury. a lot of the numbers i'm using for comparisons are from rays pro day at mizzou, and sams pro day, also at mizzou, in the same indoor facility and probably with the same personal running the show and timing it
Red, you're a dumbshit, and more importantly, a cunt. Go crawl in a hole and die, moron.
V I'd say the Montgomery drop is worse, but it is just a practice...
Last edited by smuggler; 05-09-2015 at 08:43 AM.