MR. FLIP'S RANTS

The Baltimore Sun

This week, the NFL stages its annual scouting combine, the meat market where potential draft picks will be measured within an inch of their lives. Drafting might not be an exact science, but the NFL does its best to make it so.

What goes on in Indianapolis will certainly have an impact on how teams make their selections in April. Maybe it will have too much of an impact.

Add this to the list of things Mr. Flip just doesn't understand. After all the scouting that goes on when the college players are playing actual games, why should the stopwatch-fest this week carry much weight?

Isn't the point how a player actually plays football?

But, then, what does Mr. Flip know? (Well, for one thing, he knows he wouldn't want his waist measured by a tailor, much less some NFL scout.)

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