Quote:It's a short cut.   You can't take short cuts in talent evaluation, because you eliminate players from consideration.   I had a friend who told me the Jags should not draft Khalil Mack because he was from the University of Buffalo.   That was a mental short cut that had nothing to do with Mack's actual talent.   People like to say things like, we should only draft players from major schools, or only from the SEC.  Those are short cuts that eliminate great players from consideration.  The Hall of Fame is full of guys from small schools.   Jerry Rice, Walter Payton, Deacon Jones. 

 

What if I was needing to hire a mathematician.   Should I say, don't being me any black candidates, only bring be Jewish candidates?  

 

It's not like we have millions of guys who can play NFL football and we need to be efficient in how we select people for evaluation.   We have plenty of time and resources to fully evaluate McCaffrey as a prospective NFL player.  We don't need to eliminate him with some kind of mental short cut like, he's white, let's not even evaluate the guy. 

 

I want to see McCaffrey's 40 time.  I know the guy is a great college football player, but his 40 time will tell me a lot about how he will translate to the next level.  

 

By the way, if you think white people aren't fast, McCaffrey's grandfather won the silver medal in the 100 meter dash in the Olympics.   That was on this mother's side.   His father was an NFL player, and his mother's father was an Olympic sprinter and Duke University's "Athlete of the Century."  

 

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To say, "I don't want him because he's white" just tells me you don't know anything about the guy.  You just know he's a white guy.