Quote:Some guys on here think saying fowler isn't a freak athlete means we think he sucks.

He's a good enough athlete, but he didn't display many freakish moments at the combine. What I find more important is that it appears that he plays more athletic (or hard) than some other workout warriors.

But he's no freak athlete. Brandon Scherff at 320 lbs beat him at the 3-cone drill, for example.

This issue I think some of us are having is that the analytics team on the MB is using his stats to paint a picture and we are not. No one is upset he isn't being mentioned as a "freak athlete" but we do have some trying to convey that he won't be successful because he is not a "freak athlete." 

 

We see him as a player others see him as numbers. 

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