Troy Polamalu really that better than Taylor Mays?

[NeOnDeioN]

Mays said it hurts that had he chosen differently a year ago, he would probably be many million dollars richer and could have avoided the heartache he just went through. Still, he believes he is a better player than he was a year ago -- smarter, more physical, more mature. Which makes it all the more baffling why Carroll had assured him "I was fine," when it came to the draft.
"I put my future in his hands," Mays kept saying.
Told of Mays' comments, Carroll looked wounded. He said before the draft it would be emotionally draining to have to pass on one of the many players, not just USC players, whom he has gotten to know well. He looked down and softly said about Mays, "He's hurting."

 

[NeOnDeioN]

no one can respond to that tho

 

[Doomsday101]

no one can respond to that tho

Past the point of caring. You wished we had drafted him and I'm happy with who we got. Not much else can be said.

 

[NeOnDeioN]

Pete Carroll has no idea how to coach

 

[irishline]

29 posts on this site and all of them in this thread defending/slobbering over Taylor Mays... Um...

to CowboysZone Taylor Mays?

 

[Cover 2]

Originally Posted by NeOnDeioN
I said Sean Taylor was the best "draft prospect of all time" and if you knew anything about Scouting college talent you would know this is true. Anyone who ever covered the 2004 Draft knew this and still knows this, what did you just start watching the draft?
He wasn't the best draft prospect of all time, not even close. You could even argue he wasn't the best safety prospect in 2004. So, we continue the ongoing theme of this thread, what the heck are you talking about? I don't think anyone knows at this point.

lol Can someone please tell me what this guy is talking about?:laugh2:

Apparently performance on the pro level means nothing. The true greatness of a player is how high they're ranked as a prospect. That's what I'm getting anyway.

Oh yeah, and apparently size and speed trumps performance as well.

 

[rkell87]

did somebody really post stats that are similar but comparing a 3 year starter to a 4 year starter?

 

[SaltwaterServr]

did somebody really post stats that are similar but comparing a 3 year starter to a 4 year starter?

yeah, and then continued to say Taylor Mays is the best thing since sliced bread and the remote control.

99.99999% of the people on this site could not give a **** less about Taylor Mays. The .00001% is the OP. Nobody cares kid, move on with life.

 

[burntricersx]

If he was better than Troy Polamalu, why didn't HIS OWN college coach draft him in Round 1?

 

[NeOnDeioN]

If he was better than Troy Polamalu, why didn't HIS OWN college coach draft him in Round 1?

do you read?

Mays is very coachable one of the most humble and well disiplined kids Carroll has ever coached... Carroll does not know how to coach a saftey or prepare one for the NFL BOTTOM LINE.

"He played too far off the ball, he was responsible for too much ground, he was expected to make up for the mistakes of others," wrote the bloggers. Mays refused to buy into the criticism, saying he was doing what Carroll told him to do. It was a story he stuck to all season, because, he says, he believed and trusted that Carroll was doing the best thing for him and for the team.
In hindsight, he says, he realizes the scheme probably didn't prepare him for the draft, and the fact that he wasn't a defensive playmaker because of it is likely what hurt him most. Still, he ran a blistering 40 at the combine (4.23 to 4.43 depending on whose watch you were watching) and was, by just about everybody's standards, still an incredible athlete.
Obviously it wasn't enough.
"I wish I would have known why I wouldn't be taken in the first round," he said Friday, "At least have been shown what I needed work on. Here's my head coach, the person I trust most, telling me I had nothing to worry about and then I'm worrying about it [when it's too late] because I'm not getting picked."





Mays says all year he had continually asked Carroll what he needed to do to get better, what deficiencies he needed to correct to prove to scouts that he was the brightest, fastest, most physical safety in the country; to maintain the lofty status he had achieved the year before.
"[Pete] kept saying, 'Taylor, you'll be fine. You're fine,' " Mays said. "Obviously that wasn't the case."

 

[gmoney112]

this dude still going on? give it a rest brah. he's with the niners. go talk with them about mays

 

[rkell87]

yeah, and then continued to say Taylor Mays is the best thing since sliced bread and the remote control.

99.99999% of the people on this site could not give a **** less about Taylor Mays. The .00001% is the OP. Nobody cares kid, move on with life.

go back to the baby in sunglasses avi. i liked it better lol

 

[SaltwaterServr]

go back to the baby in sunglasses avi. i liked it better lol

Carlos? Can't. He was adopted.

 

[Cowboysfan570]

Last I checked Polamalu has made five pro-bowls and got on the All-Decade team. Mays would have to do a hell of a lot in the league to even be in the same solar system as Polamalu is right now.

Oh and 40 times mean nothing for safeties. Show me the 3-cone numbers.

 

[burmafrd]

I think the last time someone started a thread and posted so much in it was when Kartr was around defending Q.