As you all know, I’m a big NFL fan.
I could care less if the Cavaliers and Warrior are doing, but I’d like to see LeBron win another title.
During the off season, I’ll read Bleacher Report, I’ll check on nfl.com, and there’s an interesting statistic here I want to talk about.
Let’s just call it the “putting all your eggs in one basket” statistic.
Of the last 26 quarterbacks that were drafted in the first round between 2006 and 2015, only 10 of those are NFL starters right now.
Only 14 are currently under contract with NFL teams, and only one, Joe Flacco of the Ravens, has won a Superbowl.
17 of the 26 never made the Pro Bowl.
So here’s what teams are doing non-stop: they’re constantly drafting a quarterback in the first round, but they’re trading away extra first round picks. When you do that, well, basically what happens is you’re really putting all your eggs in one basket.
It might be the internal pressure that that quarterback actually feels, because you don’t know what a 22-year-old man is actually feeling when a team trades four draft picks just for the opportunity to draft him all of the sudden.
Think about that. Think about the pressure, because we all feel pressure in so many different ways. If you get drafted in the top 10 or the top 20, and no one traded for you, well, it’s an honor. You get to do what you do. There’s not as much pressure, even though there is pressure. But the second a team has mortgage their future
And due to all the social media, Twitter, Facebook posts, ESPN, nfl.com — I mean, I can name 100 different sites that will talk about what the team did— you have to think about this.
All of a sudden, you’re a young man about to play quarterback for the Chicago Bears. Good luck, Mitch Trubisky.
And you’ve read about what a bomb you’re going to be. It’s all negative, negative, negative, because in life, most people would rather talk about the negative. If you go and mortgage the future, then they’re going to talk about all the bad things that could go wrong. It’s human nature to go negative before positive.
So what does drafting a quarterback or over-paying for a quarterback and giving away draft picks have to do with dating?
It’s for all you guys that constantly mortgage the future by thinking that you’ve found your dream girl.
You’ve met somebody, you’ve created a draft story about them.
Maybe they wowed you at the dating combine.
You know, their body is specifically what you like, hence all you guys that always seem to go for the women that are super, super hot. But maybe a little on the crazy side.
Maybe some of the women that you’re dating fail the Wonderlic test, but you don’t really care because they were a combine monster. They had amazing skill of looking great in a bikini.
They, when they high jumped into bed, they did things that you never imagined before.
The first few months of dating, they were unbelievable in the sack.
They showed signs of not being mentally able to keep up with you, but you didn’t care because you looked at the physical specimen of them, just like the NFL teams look at physical specimens.
Even though there are so many statistics about what not to do in a draft, what to do? They ignore it. Why?
Because dudes are running NFL franchises…
…and dudes are constantly always enamored by physical specimens.
So maybe the dude who’s drafting the quarterback and giving up a few draft picks isn’t drafting with his penis, as you would be when you draft the woman into your life and think about her with your penis the first couple of months.
But he’s still drafting on pure physical specimen alone. Everybody gets enamored by the physical specimen of another human being, whether it’s a football player, whether it’s a basketball player, or whether it’s a woman.
He gets blinded by potential, and usually in the first few months there is just nothing but potential.
Statistics tell you that if you race into a relationship with somebody who’s not your mental or emotional equal, that relationship won’t work out. So what’s the moral of this drafting combine/humping combine special blog that I’m writing today?
Stop looking at only the physical.
Stop putting all your eggs in one basket.
And stop looking at the superficial thing. Take a look at the mental character of somebody.
If the Chicago Bears just looked at Mitch Trubisky, they would know.
That he was 0 and 3 against good competition his senior year. That tells me he doesn’t have the mental capability to succeed in the NFL.
Here’s my prediction: He, like all the hot women in the past who didn’t work out the way you wanted, will be thrown into the free agent pile in a few years. Somebody else will see their potential and try to make things work.
Me, I want a woman that passed the Wonderlic test.
And I want a woman that can keep up with me mentally and emotionally for a long period of time. I no longer draft the scouting combine workout warrior.
I look at character issues deeper than anything.
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