Players that have failed: Mental or Physical?

[xwalker]

pretty much yeah
combine numbers? vernon gholston had atheltic prowess out the yang but couldnt beat rob petitti with a head start because his football athleticism was less than my grandmothers

So you're saying that Gholston had great technique, was highly motivated and spent the required hours in the film room and practice field learning to convert from a DE to an OLB but the poor sap just didn't have the required athletic ability?

Poor ole Vernon Gholston. He used perfect technique, spent countless hours in the film room, would run into a brick wall on command and had a great mental feel for the game, but just didn't have any darned athleticism. They could have done a remake of Rudy titled Vernon.

 

[xwalker]

How do you study them, when you only see the final product, which is probably less than 10% of their entire body of work? Some of those guys you listed in the OP never played in a real NFL game. You have no idea how much time any of these guys spend in the weight room, the film room, in their own offseason programs. You have no idea how they do in practice. Unless you are part of the staff of the Dallas Cowboys, you have no way to determine what issues players have or why they fail.

That was a reply to a post specifically about Butler and Brewster.

Butler had plenty of snaps in real NFL games to see his issues.

I watched all of Brewster's reps in pre-season games and also watched him in training camp. He was winning a roster spot in his final pre-season with the Cowboys, but he was cut and it was later revealed that he failed a drug test before being cut. It was also revealed that he had many personal issues that they just didn't want to deal with any longer.

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

A Coach like Mike Tomlin cures 95% of the BS mental excuse with productive Scheme and NFL Leadership.