NFL Combine's Dirty Laundry of Bad Data
CzabeCast
Steve Czaban
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
As a marketing vehicle, the combine is the greatest pint of snake oil ever sold in sports history. The fact that television covers it, and news outlets pay to send reporters is amazing. And yeah, it's a fun guilty pleasure. But it probably does more harm than good. Andy Pollin joins me to make his case for Bryce Harper being in the Nat's "Ring of Honor" (wut?) and to assess his appetite for Rosen the Chosen. All that, plus.... "good boy! You're such a good boy!"
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Zabe cast, of course the NFL combine is silly, but it's the middle of winter. |
| 0:07.5 | What else do we have to do? |
| 0:08.7 | The big question is, are we getting any better at it? |
| 0:11.0 | spoiler alert? |
| 0:12.0 | No, we're not. |
| 0:13.4 | Andy Poland joins me to catch up on a variety of issues and to celebrate a long lost basketball |
| 0:18.9 | move that was on full display Sunday. |
| 0:21.0 | All that plus the greatest sports idea I've seen in at least 50 |
| 0:24.8 | years. Bonus 1% Zabe is locked and loaded so buckle up and let's go. |
| 0:30.8 | Oh! Here we go. Tuesday, March 5th, 2019, thank you for downloading. |
| 0:45.0 | Andy Poland today and a lot of catching up to do with our friend Andrew, |
| 0:49.1 | NFL Combine, Josh Rosen, Antonio Brown, Bryce Harper, and yes, even the Bob Crafts story that Andy has yet |
| 0:55.2 | to chime in with me about. |
| 0:58.2 | But before we begin, the NFL combine, thewear Olympics. |
| 1:05.0 | Sally Jenkins writing in the Washington Post |
| 1:08.0 | points out that several academics in recent years |
| 1:11.0 | have sought mathematical proof as to whether the Underware Olympics |
| 1:16.0 | and the myriad of cone drills, vertical leaps, and other measurements can be actually |
| 1:21.8 | extrapolated into success on the NFL field? |
| 1:26.3 | The answer is simply no. |
| 1:29.1 | In 2008 a study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning by a team of Louisville Scholars concluded, |
| 1:33.2 | quote, using correlation analysis, we find no consistent statistical relationship between |
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