Exclusive Interview With Matt Johnson

You don't know because the rest of the reasonable entire world doesn't know. So how is it you know the unknowable. If you want to argue his likelihood of being a starter this year is on the lower side rather than the higher side then I'm with you.

There is one thing to consider. He's been kept around with talk of hoping to get him back when a scrub would have been cut long ago. All that means is they 'think' they see something worth keeping around. Not that's not a lot but it's a helluva lot more than your take on the matter.....which is generally your take on everything.

The failure rate for all players drafted or acquired in any manner is higher than the success rate. So you can be right betting on wrong here more often than not. It doesn't make you a prognosticator of any sort.

No one knows if Wilcox is going to be a player either. He has skills only more apparent than Johnson because nobody has seen Johnson play....not of any import. You don't have to be the best athlete on the field or even at your position to be a great safety. And I don't have the slightest idea how Johnson plays athletically or in any other way compared to Wilcox or any other player.

I wouldn't bet a plug nickel on his success but that's because I have no data. And neither do you oh great Swami. Have a good one!

Okay, then we'll chalk this up as another one of those I don't know deals that I've managed to be right on every time.

And at that time you can tell me how you always knew he was a long shot and move on to the next stiff the coaches like and nobody could possibly know anything about.
 
Ah. There we go. Predictable.

You are right about that. RS is right on the money again. Risen is predictably right on most of these topics as history has shown.
 
Hatcher? Did you create a situation in your mind when I said Hatcher couldn't play?

Bernadeau? You are that desperate to bring up a guy who held down the fort filling in for the guy they signed to replace him? What is Bernadeau now? Some great starting G in this league?

Mack is exactly the player I stated he was. Someone whom the OL coach liked who even I saw could make plays but was terribly inconsistent. He actually played better this last year. I was all over signing someone to replace him because I said you can't trust him but he is intriguing. Well, he's more intriguing today but I still don't completely trust him.

Can you even see how I...and others...can see the pros and cons of a player....which every player who's ever played has? The world is not an either or scenario for many things for me. But if you are comfortable seeing it in an all or nothing way then great. Whatever blows your dress up.
 
Okay, then we'll chalk this up as another one of those I don't know deals that I've managed to be right on every time.

And at that time you can tell me how you always knew he was a long shot and move on to the next stiff the coaches like and nobody could possibly know anything about.

You are right about a lot because everyone who predicts failure for players in this league are sooner or later right. Again most players don't succeed in this league....most fail. Congrats on being the master of the obvious. :rolleyes:
 
Okay, then we'll chalk this up as another one of those I don't know deals that I've managed to be right on every time.

And at that time you can tell me how you always knew he was a long shot and move on to the next stiff the coaches like and nobody could possibly know anything about.

Johnson has to be good. Jerry said so after drafting him. Are you trying to say that Jerry has no clue when it comes to evaluating and drafting talent?
 
He was overdrafted. That's not his fault, and you don't know he can't play. He was also a fourth rounder.

To be clear, I'd have zero issues with you saying you had no expectations whatsoever for the player. But that's not what you're saying.

Overdrafted is being kind. He should have never been drafted.

Spare me the redundant defense of you don't know. You'll have to explain me to when he's out of the league in two years how I was right without knowing.
 
You are right about that. RS is right on the money again. Risen is predictably right on most of these topics as history has shown.

Ah, Risen Star's alter ego. Birds of a feather flock together.

Here ya go. Wow! Idgit is so right on almost everything! You can use that as your standard reference since it means absolutely nothing....nothing personal Idgit.
 
You are right about a lot because everyone who predicts failure for players in this league are sooner or later right. Again most players don't succeed in this league....most fail. Congrats on being the master of the obvious. :rolleyes:

Well let's talk just recently.

When the Cowboys were getting ripped for reaching on Frederick, I said he was going to be outstanding and be on the all rookie team.

Was I right? Why did I drop my "schtick"? Just an odd moment of clarity?
 
You are right about that. RS is right on the money again. Risen is predictably right on most of these topics as history has shown.

Okay, then we'll chalk this up as another one of those I don't know deals that I've managed to be right on every time.

And at that time you can tell me how you always knew he was a long shot and move on to the next stiff the coaches like and nobody could possibly know anything about.

I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, me being a mod and all, but did we open a Risen Zone someplace where only Risen and jnday actually post where one of them does anything at all other than complain about literally everything about this team and then take a victory lap when something actually does go wrong? Because I probably should be monitoring it if such a place exists.

All I've seen is the regular zone threads where there's quite a habit of being wrong on topics, or outrageous for the sake of being outrageous, or Jerry bashing mostly unrelated topics and then not really ever owning it.
 
Ah, Risen Star's alter ego. Birds of a feather flock together.

Here ya go. Wow! Idgit is so right on almost everything! You can use that as your standard reference since it means absolutely nothing....nothing personal Idgit.

I'm better at evaluating talent than most for one reason. I can separate my own rooting interests when evaluating a player. I don't let that cloud my vision. The fact that Matt Johnson is a Cowboy or grew up idolizing Darren Woodson means absolutely nothing to me. Neither is relevant to what kind of player he is.
 
I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, me being a mod and all, but did we open a Risen Zone someplace where only Risen and jnday actually post where one of them does anything at all other than complain about literally everything about this team and then take a victory lap when something actually does go wrong? Because I probably should be monitoring it if such a place exists.

All I've seen is the regular zone threads where there's quite a habit of being wrong on topics, or outrageous for the sake of being outrageous, or Jerry bashing mostly unrelated topics and then not really ever owning it.

Risen Zone.

This is why I like you.

Make it happen and you're in the circle.
 
Overdrafted is being kind. He should have never been drafted.

Spare me the redundant defense of you don't know. You'll have to explain me to when he's out of the league in two years how I was right without knowing.

I won't. Because lots of fourth round picks are out of the league four years later. You would just be playing the odds again. And I've seen enough evidence to know what would happen if the player were to actually pan out. There's never going to be a mea culpa moment. You'll just pretend he's on the roster for Jerry's egos sake, or that one or more of the coaches don't know what they're doing because of some situation Jerry created. You won't actually own up to being wrong.
 
Have you ever seen a coach come out and say that they screwed up after drafting/gambling on a small school nobody? I gave read coaches praising players right up to the day they cut them. I wish Johnson was a good player and the answer at the safety position, but he has done nothing to make me think he is.

Yeah I have seen GMs lament drafting someone although I agree it's not generally when they are still on the team. But the point of they wouldn't say anything negative is at present of zero predictive value on whether he can play or not.

This is not an issue of he said she said but a factual one of no one knows if he can play or not since he's never played. If you say I don't think he'll beat the odds then you're probably right.

I've grown bored. You are right and everyone else is wrong. All hail Risen Star and his mini Me jnday!!
 
Well let's talk just recently.

When the Cowboys were getting ripped for reaching on Frederick, I said he was going to be outstanding and be on the all rookie team.

Was I right? Why did I drop my "schtick"? Just an odd moment of clarity?

I've never once said you are wrong about everything or that you don't occasionally look on the brighter side. It's just not very common for you to do so. And there were plenty here who thought the guy would do ok. And that's what his first year was. Ok. Now for a rookie it was good. Congrats. I apologize. You're not always doom and gloom. Just the vast majority of the time.
 
I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, me being a mod and all, but did we open a Risen Zone someplace where only Risen and jnday actually post where one of them does anything at all other than complain about literally everything about this team and then take a victory lap when something actually does go wrong? Because I probably should be monitoring it if such a place exists.

All I've seen is the regular zone threads where there's quite a habit of being wrong on topics, or outrageous for the sake of being outrageous, or Jerry bashing mostly unrelated topics and then not really ever owning it.

Reality is hard to grasp for some people. RIsen and me tend to think for ourselves and we don't buy into everything being great in Dallas because Jerry says so. There are players on this team that I like, but there are many more that needs to go. I have no emotional attachment to any of them. The Cowboys have become more of a circus than a pro football team. I take no pleasure in "victory laps" as you call them. As a fan for over 40 years, I expect much more from the organization. It is sad to see this team follow the Raiders in an ugly, decline.
 
Yeah I have seen GMs lament drafting someone although I agree it's not generally when they are still on the team. But the point of they wouldn't say anything negative is at present of zero predictive value on whether he can play or not.

This is not an issue of he said she said but a factual one of no one knows if he can play or not since he's never played. If you say I don't think he'll beat the odds then you're probably right.

I've grown bored. You are right and everyone else is wrong. All hail Risen Star and his mini Me jnday!!

You stated my case for me. Praise from the coach has zero predictive value as well. With that being said, there is nothing that proves the guy was anything more than a bad gamble in another bad draft by the Cowboys. If he actually had played in a game or two and made a few plays, I would have a little hope myself.
 
Overdrafted is being kind. He should have never been drafted.

Spare me the redundant defense of you don't know. You'll have to explain me to when he's out of the league in two years how I was right without knowing.

I'll still never forget Kiper flipping through some papers in front of him trying to figure out something productive to say about Matt Johnson on live tv. That's how bad of a pick it was.

Im not saying Matt Johnson has no shot of being an NFL player, but relying on him to be anything other than a special teams player is crazy. He shouldn't even be in the discussion for off-season plans as far as FS candidates.
 
Only reason Matt Johnson went to a small school was because that was the only school his brother got a scholarship to, and he wanted to play with his brother. He got offers from Oregon and other programs.

Johnson had a DB PRODUCTION RATIO = (INTERCEPTIONS + PASS BREAKUPS + FORCED FUMBLES) / NUMBER OF GAMES PLAYED of 0.91. Compared to that year's draft class, that is the third best value for a safety, right behind Mark Barron with 0.95 and Markelle Martin with 1.11.

His 4.54 40 yrd dash time is also plenty good. Tested well in all drills scouts look at for safeties, above average. Read more here:


http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2012...afety-matt-johnson-will-turn-heads-in-the-nfl
 
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