{"id":64794,"date":"2023-02-11T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/11\/demaurice-smith-is-right-time-to-end-the-nfl-scouting-combine\/"},"modified":"2023-02-11T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T08:49:08","slug":"demaurice-smith-is-true-time-to-finish-the-nfl-scouting-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/11\/demaurice-smith-is-true-time-to-finish-the-nfl-scouting-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMaurice Smith is true \u2014 time to finish the NFL scouting mix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith speaks throughout a information convention forward of the Super Bowl 57<\/figcaption>
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This Super Bowl week has been a busy one. Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes have dominated storylines as they\u2019ll be the sport\u2019s first two Black quarterbacks<\/a><\/span>. The Kelce brothers<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Jason of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis of the Kansas City Chiefs \u2014 are enjoying on reverse groups. Rihanna<\/a><\/span> is performing. Roger Goodell did a press convention the place he stated a number of issues<\/a><\/span> that individuals in all probability didn\u2019t settle for as truth. And the NBA even hijacked Thursday<\/a><\/span> attributable to all of the drama round their commerce deadline. But, the storyline that deserves extra consideration is DeMaurice Smith\u2019s name for the eradication of the NFL scouting mix.<\/p>\n

End the NFL mix<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s time for the annual occasion to finish. The very nature of it’s racist as hell.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThink about it … the NCAA and the NFL structure a combine during what should be every football player\u2019s what? Last semester in college,\u201d the NFLPA\u2019s government director stated<\/a><\/span> throughout the gamers affiliation\u2019s annual Super Bowl information convention. \u201cWho decided that it was a good idea to take your son and have him exclusively try out for the NFL\u2019s exclusive way of getting into the league \u2014 for the most part, unless you\u2019re a free-agent player? You have to be invited to the combine.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as you show up, you have to waive all of your medical rights and you not only have to sit there and endure embarrassing questions. And I think that\u2019s horrible, and I don\u2019t wanna pooh-pooh any of that, but would you want your son to spend hours inside of an MRI [machine] and then be evaluated by 32 separate team doctors who are, by the way, are only doing it for one reason? What\u2019s the reason? To decrease your draft value.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Back in December, NFL Executive Vice President of soccer operations Troy Vincent \u2014 who’s Black, like Smith \u2014 \u201cruffled some feathers\u201d with the homeowners<\/a><\/span> when he in contrast the mix to a \u201cslave auction\u201d \u2014 which it resembles fairly intently.<\/p>\n