The site itself says someone named Joe Bussell (not sure if he’s just a contributor, or the main guy that runs everything)
But just glancing thru his site, he predicted the Pats may have a “Super year” and on the Winston/Mariota take, he praised Marcus fairly well, but when it came down to it, he dropped this
The Verdict
It’s pretty simple. Jameis Winston displays all the traits that NFL teams want on the field and could probably start week 1 for whatever NFL team drafts him (provided he hasn’t done anything stupid off the field to prevent that). Marcus Mariota will have a good amount of necessary development of his skills to make himself a quality NFL starter but his ceiling is tremendous.
Ignoring the off-field concerns (which NFL general managers don’t have the luxury of doing), Winston is on a completely different level than Mariota. His skill set is more of a translation as opposed to the projection of Mariota’s skill set to the NFL. Winston’s skill set may just make him worth the risk with the first overall selection anyway.
Or
I have some concerns about Mariota’s game. He has to improve his accuracy, anticipation, and he must learn to throw the ball into tighter windows. These are two traits that take time, effort, coaching, and reps to internalize so that they’re an automatic reaction and not a laboring decision. If he can learn and improve these aspects of his game, Mariota has the ceiling to be great.
He had some other tweets where he had concerns about Geno Smith, and people called him racist, and then he said the same kind of things about Manziel, and people railed him for that too. I think that’s why he’s on his “opinion’s kept quiet” kick today.
So I don’t know if he’s any good, smart, or otherwise, but I remember what Le’Veon was sayin about Kiper, Mayock, McShay sayin what they want about their guys, and the intel they are given by other employees of teams, agents, etc, how they are just mouthpieces for certain prospects, and don’t know **** about others. I also have learned from the guys that run the site I work on, the NFL has a full on scouting service that gives them all their information, not guys that work for ESPN or NFL Network, etc. I wish like hell I could get my hands on one of those books, or even find out some of the names of those scouts, but I haven’t found a damn thing anywhere on them. Don’t even know where to begin looking. :\
