1 is, he never accounts for context and situation. He just looks at physical skills and execution.
2 is, he will often leap to conclusions about the player's mindset. Often those are completely arbitrary.
So for example, we have this green qb who has to learn how to read defenses at the NFL level, and he predictably proves to be spotty at this. That's on top of everyone he plays knowing the Rams do not have a running game.
And he concludes that it's a mental issue (toughness).
Based on what? His considerable mindreading powers?
When Cosell just sticks to describing execution and physical style of play, he's always illuminating.
But sometimes he doesn't stick to that. And more often than not, where he goes when he goes past his real skill set as an evaluator, is just not always that insightful or valid.
He also only watches a handful of games per qb. Well you can't blame him---32 x 16 is a lot of games. He's selective. That means he's dependent on his selection. So when I hear him on Goff, I just don't get a complete picture of the player. I get the especially overwhelmed Goff of the last 2-3 games.
And that's GRANTING that Goff the college Air Raid qb had a long ways to go to be NFL caliber.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2017 06:44AM by zn.