The Mazi Smith Thread...

[boozeman]

McClay pounding the table for this fucking ditz is definitely a terrible look.

I get it you feel this way now, but you were always strident about defending the pick.

What changed?

 

[boozeman]

It stinks. Like some national security secret no one wants to be blamed for.

That is probably why McClay stays.

Paid like a GM.

His bosses are too football stupid to hold him accountable for mistakes.

Dream job. Almost in the family portrait.

 

[Simpleton]

I get it you feel this way now, but you were always strident about defending the pick.

What changed?

I judge prospects by what I see in the games, you never know what's truly going on in their head, and there's just too much strange circumstantial shit surrounding the guy.

It started with his weird "I don't like football, I just like hitting people" comment. That on its own wasn't much but when you throw in the absurd weight loss, the inability to get off the snap somewhat normally despite presumably months of professional coaching/practice, and now completely stupid shit like this?

Just strikes me as an immature guy who either doesn't really care about football, or he's too stupid to conduct himself like an adult/professional, or both.

At this point I'd be thrilled if he could just develop into a Hankins-like average 2-down player.

 

[p1_]

At this point I'd be thrilled if he could just develop into a Hankins-like average 2-down player.

thats a minimum expectation at this point.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Just strikes me as an immature guy who either doesn't really care about football, or he's too stupid to conduct himself like an adult/professional, or both.

The storage unit thing is something Dez would have done. He wasn't bright. But at least the guy had passion for the game. It's probably why his career burned out though.

 

[Bill Shatner]

I thought Michigan had a high standard for admittance? Even for football players. Maybe he's one of those book smart people that are complete retards otherwise?

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I thought Michigan had a high standard for admittance? Even for football players.

Eh, no. I think all the football factories make exceptions.

And even if he does have some innate intelligence, these guys are so catered to in college, I bet a bunch of them never learn to be very responsible there.

 

[ravidubey]

It stinks. Like some national security secret no one wants to be blamed for.

The Jones are pulling a nuclear deterrent/lockdown. No one wants to lose locker room access over it.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

The Jones are pulling a nuclear deterrent/lockdown. No one wants to lose locker room access over it.

Parsons is all over the media. Ask him the questions...

 

[Simpleton]

The storage unit thing is something Dez would have done. He wasn't bright. But at least the guy had passion for the game. It's probably why his career burned out though.

Dez was an elite talent who cared about football immensely, that's why he was so dominant early in his career. His immaturity is what cut his career short as you said because once that elite talent started to wane, he hadn't mastered the more nuanced parts of the game like route-running and so forth.

The difference with Mazi is he was never an elite talent (Dez was expected to go top 10 before the off-field stuff with Deion or whatever it was) and it's questionable whether he even cares about the game in the first place.

It's almost impossible to be a really good NFL player if you're both lazy/immature and aren't passionate about the sport unless you're literally in the top 5% of talent in the league. Mazi was never that, he was a late 1/early 2 type of prospect, and a guy with that talent level who is both lazy and dispassionate about the game will flame out quick.

 

[ravidubey]

Parsons is all over the media. Ask him the questions...

That's another situation heading south.

That 4-3 DE position isn't letting Parsons shine-- that and the constant media involvement is rubbing off some of his polish.

Vs. quality competition, he was getting blown back by tackles and chipped. Barely made an impression vs Green Bay, where he should have shown his brightest. Gratuitous holding against him consistently gets swallowed up in all the line play.

DWare could do it (an insane comparison I know, but I hold Parsons to a higher standard), but he was also 20 pounds heavier. And even then, Ware's best seasons were played in space in a 3-4.

I wonder what Zimmer has in store for Micah. It's honestly key to our improvement.

 

[Bill Shatner]

That's another situation heading south.

That 4-3 DE position isn't letting Parsons shine-- that and the constant media involvement is rubbing off some of his polish.

Vs. quality competition, he was getting blown back by tackles and chipped. Barely made an impression vs Green Bay, where he should have shown his brightest. Gratuitous holding against him consistently gets swallowed up in all the line play.

DWare could do it (an insane comparison I know, but I hold Parsons to a higher standard), but he was also 20 pounds heavier. And even then, Ware's best seasons were played in space in a 3-4.

I wonder what Zimmer has in store for Micah. It's honestly key to our improvement.

Parsons has to play the weak side LB spot for Zimmer. Just has too. He cannot play 4-3 DE or he will be done by week 12. It is obvious he is spent rushing the passer 85% of the time moving around standing up and not lining up on the line most of the time.

 

[ravidubey]

Parsons has to play the weak side LB spot for Zimmer. Just has too. He cannot play 4-3 DE or he will be done by week 12. It is obvious he is spent rushing the passer 85% of the time moving around standing up and not lining up on the line most of the time.

Bill Parcells got it right with LT and Demarcus Ware. Von Miller carried that tradition forward.

They barely played with their fist in the dirt.

Seriously, the blueprints are right there.

 

[Cotton]

I bet a bunch of them never learn to be very responsible there.

As a guy that worked at a university for 22 years, and worked very closely with athletics, I can assure you they don't.

 

[bbgun]

This guy might just be a moron, nothing you can really do about that.

He should room with Sam Williams. Quarantine them from the rest of the team.

 

[NoDak]

Bill Parcells got it right with LT and Demarcus Ware.

LT, sure. But Ware? Hardly.

DeMarcus Ware would never have been a Cowboy if Parcells had got his way.

If he had, we would have had Spears at 11 and Ware would have been long gone by 20.

 

[p1_]

The Jones are pulling a nuclear deterrent/lockdown. No one wants to lose locker room access over it.

Jerry loves the questions and is the expert. Ask him too.

 

[Genghis Khan]

The Jones are pulling a nuclear deterrent/lockdown. No one wants to lose locker room access over it.

I don't know about that. What would be his motivation to lock that topic down? It's not that big of a deal.

"Did Mazi lose weight on his own, or was he directed to do so by coaches?"

What's the BFD?

 

[boozeman]

I don't know about that. What would be his motivation to lock that topic down? It's not that big of a deal.

"Did Mazi lose weight on his own, or was he directed to do so by coaches?"

What's the BFD?

If he did something on his own that hurt him, it is bad PR, period. When things get quiet, it is not good.

 

[Bill Shatner]

I don't know about that. What would be his motivation to lock that topic down? It's not that big of a deal.

"Did Mazi lose weight on his own, or was he directed to do so by coaches?"

What's the BFD?

I'd say it is a moderately big deal. This is a guy who looks like a wasted first rounder right off the bat because he didn't flash anything last season. Stories popped up that his weight fell under 300. People want to know why a guy that the Cowboys spent a high pick on to be a boulder in the middle to stop the run dropped weight like he caught the AIDS.