Posted on 09/24/2014 2:41:59 PM PDT by blam
Tony Manfred
September 24, 2014
Anonymous NFL scouts ripped into Jameis Winston after he was suspended for the Clemson game for jumping on a table and reciting a profanity-laced meme.
The Florida State quarterback, who has faced a slew of off-field controversies over the last 12 months, was considered the best player in the 2015 NFL Draft by ESPN and CBS as recently as August.
Now NFL talent evaluators have their doubts.
One scout told Albert Breer of the NFL Network that he was a "fraud." He's presumably referring to reports that Winston lied about his table-jumping incident in his original meeting with Florida State:
"He's a fraud. You can't believe anything he says, because he keeps doing the same things over and over. In my mind, there are night-and-day differences between (Johnny) Manziel's and his character concerns. Winston has some serious issues."
Another scout told Yahoo's Eric Edholm that people around Florida State privately rip him:
"I just write up the [scouting] reports, and mine has a lot of red ink on it, if you know what I mean. When you talk to people [about Winston], it's either excuses being made or they privately rip him. That just doesn't earn you a lot of trust."
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Not civilized enough to play in the NFL. What next?
BTW
- Roll Tide -
He doesn’t throw that great a ball anyway - last season Florida State had a fabulous receiver corps.....I think this season will be far less prolific for him.
What’s the over/under on his Wonderlic score. I suspect it will be in the Morris Claiborne range.
Sounds like a lot of high school gossip.
Maybe instead of shouting “Bleep that right in the bleep” in the middle of the campus...
He ought to get some ho - and actually DO it.
Then punch her. In an elevator.
His value will skyrocket.
Future Raider.
Who said he could show up at the game against Clemson? Constantly seeing his mug on camera was grating.
Assaulting a female in 2012 and stealing crab legs earlier this year I think should have “lowered his draft stock”
Click here and see the disgusted look when the coach sees him on the sideline during the Clemson game.
The Cowboys will take him...
He needs to stay another year and grow up. Then, I’d take him in a heartbeat. If he goes into the draft this year after this episode, it shows worse judgement than last week’s event. Frankly, that would have been no news if it was ANYONE else in collegiate sports. It was dumb on his part, but the act was nothing.
He’s a natural great on the field. He just needs to figure out how to act off it.
I have only seen him in one game this year, against OSU.
He looked pretty average. Not bad, just average.
the nfl are all rats and if they think that a particular rate will sell a few tickets or win some games, they couldn’t care less if he’s a rapist or a murderer....
He gets a huge pay day if he just avoids the spotlight and stays out of trouble. So far, the only thing he has avoided is good advice and the only thing he’s stayed away from is common sense.
He can challenge Vince Young for the QB record.
Discipline cases tend not to win many games, which means they don’t sell tickets.
And he is a bit lumnbering compared to the other elite college quarterbacks.
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