Quote:Well you noticed for every other pick TonyK quickly chimed in with a few stats about how great that player performed in this test, or he had a speed score of so and so....for Fowler it was crickets. I have a feeling Tony wasn't thrilled w/ the Fowler pick either since it flies so hard in the face of the analytics he uses. 

Not to downgrade you or you specific type of prospect evaluation but I vividly remember when his analytics stated that when Blaine Gabbert had x amount of time to throw he was the best in the league such and such or other.....

 

Stats and analytics are nice but again are a tool to be used. You don't cook a meal with only salt and you don't build a team based only on stats. There is more that just combine numbers that make a player great. Derrick Harvey and Hayward-Bey have proven that one to us and those are only two I can think of as I'm typing this. There are things that we aren't privy to in the draft process that really separates these players. If we knew the defensive plays and assignments most of these guys had during the games that only would change about 80% of our thinking on most of these guys. 

 

I actually like reading a lot of things you post and some of you analysis on guys because I do feel you put a little ore time into than other posters may. I guess this is my cautionary tell in only using stats. 

 

I remember Vic used to say you can find a stat that proves anything. 

---