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If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:07 PM
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Not a fan of all these Clemson guys not participating in the drills at the NFL Combine. Barring an injury, you should participate in all of the drills in my opinion.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:14 PM
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Carlos has a hamstring issue but not sure why others are not running the 40.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:18 PM
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Mike Williams excuse was "I didn't have enough time to prepare for it". Come on bro.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:23 PM
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They're going to run it at the pro day....what's the difference?
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:27 PM
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There's actually a huge difference in the eyes of the NFL teams and scouts. Google it. You're there to compete, so compete. Ben just finished in the bottom two in both the broad jump and the vertical. He finished 11th (out of 22) in bench press. Skipping the 40 doesn't help your cause and you're not going to "run faster" because you're at home just like Christian McCaffrey isn't going to crank out another 8 reps of 225 in his basement.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:32 PM
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Dude there is a lot more into running a fast 40 time than just go out there and run. You can have a track coach teach you techniques to shave valuable time off.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:42 PM
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Then explain to me why Wayne, Artavis & Deshaun all ran? They had the same amount of time to prepare as Ben, Carlos & Mike. If ALL the clemson players skipped the drills it would look a lot better than the one receiver everyone wants to see run, the one defensive lineman we have invited, and the Jack Lambert award winner that every scout is calling slow. It's just not a good look.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:50 PM
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Why they ran is irrelevant to why someone else chose not to.
Once again if you were in a situation where doing something is ONLY going to hurt you would you do it?
You are showing a lot of ignorance in this thread by 1 thinking it is easy to run a fast 40 and there is no prep involved and 2 going after Clemson players for doing what is right for THEM.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 3:16 PM
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You're showing just as much ignorance pretending that not participating in a drill barring injury does not negatively impact your draft stock. Are you listening to the reaction of Mayock and company to those that decide not to participate or are you making these statements based on your own personal opinion?
I never said it was "easy" to run a fast 40 nor did I claim there wasn't any prep involved. But if half your teammates ran, and you don't, how does that not stand out as a negative. Can you explain that? No one is "going after" anyone. I, like everyone talking at the combine and basically every scout ever to hold a clipboard, am just a little disappointed that some of our guys did not participate by choice, not because of injury. The whole "I didn't have enough time to prepare" excuse holds a lot less weight when your quarterback, fellow wide receiver & running back ran the 40. Period!
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 4:21 PM
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"You're showing just as much ignorance pretending that not participating in a drill barring injury does not negatively impact your draft stock. Are you listening to the reaction of Mayock and company to those that decide not to participate or are you making these statements based on your own personal opinion?"
Except for the simple fact that them not participating is a lesser negative than them running a slower time.
You do a great job of ignoring that part. Just should just stop you dont know what you are talking about here.
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Serious question. You think the number of clemson players sitting out
Mar 5, 2017, 2:24 PM
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Will impact future invites for our players?
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:32 PM
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Good lord easy for you to say...
Why would you do a drill that is only going to hurt your draft stock?
Why do soemthing that could cost you a lot of money?
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:40 PM
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Easy for me to say? Artavis Scott finished at the bottom of every single drill for WR. Why did he participate if he could have just done the interviews and ran all the drills on 3/16 in the clemson practice facility then? Because he's a competitor and he came to compete.
You know what costs you a lot of money? Not participating in drills when you don't have an injury. No scout in the world looks at Pro Day the same way they look at the combine. And not participating is always looked at negatively unless you're injured. Period.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 2:50 PM
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Scotts decision has nothing to do with MWs.
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Re: If you get an invite, you should participate!
Mar 5, 2017, 3:19 PM
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Do you have money invested in their draft stock or something, because you seem very butt hurt about this subject.
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Boulware is participating, but not in the 40*****
Mar 5, 2017, 2:42 PM
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Their agents are telling them not to participate***
Mar 5, 2017, 2:48 PM
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Re: Their agents are telling them not to participate***
Mar 5, 2017, 3:18 PM
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You know this how?
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This affects you how??***
Mar 5, 2017, 2:49 PM
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Re: This affects you how??***
Mar 5, 2017, 3:21 PM
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Affects me? It doesn't. Disappoints me? It does. Just like a dropped pass, mistackle, bad route or otherwise. Criticism is fine if it's reasonable. And questioning why someone wouldn't run a 40 when everyone is saying they're slow isn't all that unreasonable if "proving the doubters wrong" is the goal.
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Unless you prove them right
Mar 5, 2017, 3:44 PM
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It's better for people to think you're slow than to run the 40 and prove it.
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Re: Unless you prove them right
Mar 5, 2017, 4:18 PM
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If youre not gonna participate give you're spot to someone that will! Chad Kelly would have done some felonious stuff to get that invite!!!!
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