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I shit you not when I started typing this I was only going to post about a thread I came across the other day and how it should provide a little caution for a full fledged swan dive into the Will McClay hot tub. I was curious how much lip service Will McClay had received prior to last fall. Searched around and ran across an interesting radio recap of Stephen talking about the draft of 2012. Came from May 3, 2012 and one of the bullet points was:
I was going to piggyback this with a quote from the very same Stephen Jones talking about the 2013 draft in comparison to the 2012 draft.
What I was going to point out from these two quotes is that:
As I alluded to earlier, this was all I was going to post and just point out that maybe we should tap the brakes on McClay if guys he's getting a very good look at are being labeled as reaches the following season.
That said, after having read a shit ton of Will McClay articles and posts in trying to find out when the first time a guy who's been with the team for 11 years was actually noticed to a great extent, I've got a whole new thread in the works and it comes packaged with a nice little conspiracy theory.
Well, sort of. Not a real conspiracy but just a hunch on the ass backward day-to-day operations within the organization.
I'll also point out that while I was pretty fucking skeptical about how such a scouting savant could lay low within the organization for a decade, I'm a little more optimistic about the McClay aspect than I was prior to looking at all this garbage.
Will McClay did a lot of work scouting Matt Johnson. He had everything we look for in safety. Other teams might have knocked him for his tackling last year and injury, but we were actually impressed he played through an injury that knock most people out for the year.
I was going to piggyback this with a quote from the very same Stephen Jones talking about the 2013 draft in comparison to the 2012 draft.
“We got a guy in the fifth round [running back Joseph Randle] we had on the board in the third. We got good value on guys instead or reaching as we did in the past. Last year, we needed a safety and might have pumped a little air in [fourth-round pick Matt Johnson]. We took him earlier than we needed to. That didn’t happen this year, other than maybe the first round. We got good value.”
What I was going to point out from these two quotes is that:
1. Will McClay worked extensively with Johnson and subsequently the team reached for him. Specifically speaking, it was likely McClay who was pumping a good amount of that air if he worked with Johnson enough to have Stephen explicitly mention it.
2. Matt Johnson may have a free pass for the duration of his contract. They aren't ditching on a McClay pet any sooner than they have to after being as pleased as they were with the job he did last year. If he stays healthy, they're probably gonna just consider him a rookie and keep him even if he looks pretty bad in camp and preseason. If he gets hurt, they'll IR him and try again next year.
As I alluded to earlier, this was all I was going to post and just point out that maybe we should tap the brakes on McClay if guys he's getting a very good look at are being labeled as reaches the following season.
That said, after having read a shit ton of Will McClay articles and posts in trying to find out when the first time a guy who's been with the team for 11 years was actually noticed to a great extent, I've got a whole new thread in the works and it comes packaged with a nice little conspiracy theory.
:fern
Well, sort of. Not a real conspiracy but just a hunch on the ass backward day-to-day operations within the organization.
I'll also point out that while I was pretty fucking skeptical about how such a scouting savant could lay low within the organization for a decade, I'm a little more optimistic about the McClay aspect than I was prior to looking at all this garbage.