for someone just itching for a dust-up this is incredibly calm...after all....this is freakin' mel kiper,jr they're talkin' about.I'm calling for a ban of the OP. Who do I have to talk to?
It is a hit piece and unfair, and I'm sure Kiper is chuckling on his way to the bank, to the extent he cares at all.
I suppose I was one of Kiper's earlier subscribers, all the way back to the 80s. In those days, when you called to order the annual guide, Kiper usually answered the phone, and he would talk draft with you for a half hour or more. Knew his stuff and was genuinely a nice, though intense guy.
I think he was a bit more daring then. His opinions were much less shaded by conversations with NFL folks and agents. He missed some players, of course, but generally he was quite accurate and often ahead of the curve.
He still does a good job. Yeah he misses some. Over the course of many years, he has missed quite a few. And he has also hit on more than his share.
Kiper is an easy target, but his success is no accident.
Lol
So Kiper has missed a bunch just like every other person that ever lived.
Cool
for someone just itching for a dust-up this is incredibly calm...after all....this is freakin' mel kiper,jr they're talkin' about.
Parcells wanted Spears before WareJimmy wanted LB James Francis over Emmitt Smith.
I am not a Kuiper fan at all, but this video is pretty unfair to me. To go through his career and pick his worst mistakes out of literally thousands of evaluations is what is called a hit piece. Kuiper has been wrong a lot, but so have some top GMs. No one in the history of the sport has been perfect in these draft evaluations and predictions. And let's not forget that the teams that pick these players - the so called professionals - make the same mistakes as Kuiper.
I don't like the guy, but I will give him credit for being a self-starter, and motivated enough to push his idea to market draft evaluations because look at that business now. There are literally dozens of services that do the same thing, not to mention all the amateurs on the internet.
Age is softening the underbellyfor someone just itching for a dust-up this is incredibly calm...after all....this is freakin' mel kiper,jr they're talkin' about.
Wasn't that uncomfortable?I got his wife on the phone one time. Very cool. They are good people.