Bobhaze
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This is our yearly reminder to not overrate or get caught up in what you hear these days about matchups being played out in OTAs while players are decked up in shorts and t-shirts as opposed to pads.
These events can reveal some things about individual players like speed and quickness, but it is never done in a real game context with pads and other factors that make football a team sport.
I’m not saying off season workouts and OTA matchups means nothing. But I am saying it doesn’t mean enough to get too high or too low on a player.
We all can remember the proclamations of greatness spouted by too many Cowboys fans about the “amazing” Rico Gathers from a few years ago. A “star” of OTAs and even a few big preseason game plays, yet currently no longer playing NFL football. Of course most of his “greatness” occurred while wearing a t-shirt or while being matched up in a ps game against a UFA safety from a directional school with no chance of ever making an NFL roster.
Let’s not read too much either way into OTAs.
These events can reveal some things about individual players like speed and quickness, but it is never done in a real game context with pads and other factors that make football a team sport.
I’m not saying off season workouts and OTA matchups means nothing. But I am saying it doesn’t mean enough to get too high or too low on a player.
We all can remember the proclamations of greatness spouted by too many Cowboys fans about the “amazing” Rico Gathers from a few years ago. A “star” of OTAs and even a few big preseason game plays, yet currently no longer playing NFL football. Of course most of his “greatness” occurred while wearing a t-shirt or while being matched up in a ps game against a UFA safety from a directional school with no chance of ever making an NFL roster.
Let’s not read too much either way into OTAs.