Henry posted:AtTheMurph posted:Henry posted:Disagree only for the reason that travel is probably way down, which means scouts aren't out in full force. I think it forces more teams to go with a Cleveland money ball approach, which we all know has worked out really well.
I was talking to a friend of mine who is a VP for the Colts about the draft problems. He said that travel and pro days, etc don't really mean much. The team has had it's draft board mostly done since last fall and only makes small changes to it between the end of the season and draft day.
And the changes are mostly due to character or medical issues that were unknown. But most of them are known.
So the Combine is more tampering, subterfuge dog and pony show?
We talked about the combine. It's held in Indy. His take was that the Colts scouts don't value it that much because it's guys running around shorts. Some guys it makes a difference because they played at small schools against inferior competition but even then the scouts know what they are doing. So not really a big deal.
They do like to interview however.
Fiend belongs to the same country club and we just traveled together to Jamaica to golf for a week in Feb. I golfed with him on Fri afternoon and we had a chance to talk about it. He's on the financial side so take everything with a grain of salt.
He did sort of telegraph the Luck retirement last summer but never gave it all away, so he knows things.