White identifies the Panthers

Damn dude, I'm not a huge Collin fan myself, but that was uncalled for.

Here is a source for you.

http://www.fantasyfootballjungle.com/y/2006-nfl-draft/prospects/index.php?id=198

This was the 1st return on the search string "Lendale White scouting report" in Google. Not too difficult.

"Cons: Has a very casual work ethic, he was often reported at USC to be slightly overweight and out of shape. Lack of speed will not allow him to bounce runs outside in the NFL. While in blocking, tended to sit back and take the charge, using his body size instead of good technique. Will need to improve in this area."

 

HeadAche, surely you know by now how stupid you are; you even acknowledge it from time to time. And as evidence of that stupidity, there have already been links posted on this website with quotes from anonymous teammates such as:

"The guy can play, but he just gets by,” said a former USC offensive player who was teammates with White. “He coasted in practice and he coasted in the offseason. He came in thinking he just had to put in his time and that’s what you see now. People think he’s great and the talent is there … but the stuff he did was just because he played next to Reggie and with all those other guys around him."

Here is another link from just after White announced for the draft, well before the combine or his workout. It said he "has the potential to be a high selection but likely will have to answer questions about his speed and his work ethic"

Another link from an ESPN chat said, "Lendale White is not very hot right now. There are some concerns about his work ethic. One GM told me yesterday that he reminds him of "Ron Dayne" and I had to cringe at that thought."

Then we already discussed how he "played in the Rose Bowl at 253 pounds, thanks to holiday turkey and his mom's macaroni and cheese."


That enough sources, you lazy moron? Maybe if you spent less time wallowing in your own stupidity and more actually getting out and reading things instead of relying on everyone else to give you links, you wouldn't be so completely clueless.

 

Bah. The next thing you'll say is that we'll draft a receiving TE. :imagestor

 

I'm with Collin on this. I really don't want White here.

 

You have me wrong. I don't dislike Collin. I find him to be a rather pathetic character that often has me feeling sorry for him and wishing he could change his ways so people would get off his back. My response was, I thought, simply a very transparent tactic to get him to show me his tits on White's character issues. And, I assumed correctly that he was hanging his hat, for lack of any place on his body substantial enough to do so, on net nonsense and that he doesn't actually have any substantive info on White's character.

I think, and it mostly hypothesis, that it could be that White rubs people wrong, which I think is a safe start. Maybe he's really an intelligent guy like Collin whose foot unfortunately seems to keep getting inserted into his mouth. Perhaps too like Collin he just has a weird or misguided sense of humor and/or self and says things meant to muse but get misconstrued and over-amplified. Could be I'm all wet as White obviously has made some less than brilliant blunders such as blowing off that sportswriter and has suffered the invariable consequence. (I know it's popular to diss stupid people but you can trust me when I say that not even Earl Campbell's mom ever mistook him for being brighter than apple sauce ... and I have to assume that Collin would have therefore *sighed* at the thought of drafting him too; whereas, I was happy as hell with Earl despite his IQ.)

I don't have a link but I heard from somewhere that Pete Carroll said that White's a very intelligent young man. And, I kinda doubt that Foxy would be having dinner with him if he thought his character was an issue, and I'm pretty positive Foxy woulda done some investigation considering some of the negative stories that have circulated about him. I'm sure Collin will find a way to dismiss that reasoning but on this subject I think it apparent that he only knows as much as the local town idiot.

People are dissing White because of his arrogant attitude when he said that he was far and away the best power back in this draft so he didn't need to show to still get drafted high. And yet, it looks like White has a strong chance of being dead-on right and that his not being able to perform will not affect where he is drafted. Some guys actually hurt themselves at these events, no? If so, maybe the guy is brilliant if we look hard enough. Maybe he's playing the media and all the GM's (and me) into thinking that there's shenanigans going on and that if a team wants him they better jump on him early in round 1 cuz he won't be there beyond Denver and Carolina.

My sense (opinion) is that he is going to be a damn good running back and whoever gets him is going to feel awfully good about him for a long time, and that he ain't gong to be problem child. He may make things interesing from time to time but no worse than say a Smitty. My read and from what I've seen of him, I think the guy is a great power back with an uncanny ability to score TDs. I don't buy at all that he was only successful because of his offensive line. If it was you and I only looking at a couple of games maybe we could get fooled. Maybe Foxy could get fooled after spending hours looking at him on 3 years of film. But just based on resources available to them and the hours each puts into scouting players, the chances of Foxy being right over Collin are highly likely. And that's simply the facts, Jack. So I think it a remarkably arrogant to paint White as a *sigh* pick, should it occur, that we should all be disappointed in. I suppose the same argument could be made about Bush ... and who know's maybe the Texans will come to the same conclusion as Collin has on White or thier fans will all *sigh* when Bush's name is announced.

The fact that I find myself comparing White to Collin is admittedly worrisome, but without the presentation of much more substantive tits, I'll take Carroll's word Collin's mosquito bites.

 

Dude, you are the town idiot. You know absolutely nothing at all about this or any other subject, and when you aren't behaving like a total jackass, you actually admit just how stupid you know that you are. White consistently loafed at USC, he was consistently overweight, and other players anonymously say he wasn't a good teammate. There's no denying that he blew off sportswriters and teams, or that he showed absolutely no concern for getting in shape for either the combine or his pro day. If you want to argue against me about his pro potential, that's fine, but to argue that he's not a bad character guy makes you look like the clueless moron you actually are. You're pissant piece of shit who doesn't know anything, never has known anything, and occasionally compensates for such apparent stupidity by throwing a hissy fit and pretending that your opinion has any validity whatsoever. It doesn't. You are a fucking idiot, and you're provably wrong about LenDale White's character.

 

Here is a article by Michael Silver concerning Lendale standing him up for a scheduled appointment recently:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/michael_silver/04/07/white/index.html

The guy is immature, self entitled, and slovenly. This generally doesn't get any better as a person like this gets older, which invalidates past film. There are a few examples of it turning around, but they are a small percentage. Why take that chance on a first round pick?

 

Before it's all said and done, Fox & Co will know a lot more about White then anyone here. And more importantly (and all that REALLY matters) is that it's Fox & Co's decision on whether they want him or not.

 

True, but it's not like they've never messed up on a draft pick before. Really, there's no denying at all that White is a bad character guy with major red flags, but he's also quite talented, so maybe everything would end up just fine. It's not a pick most fans can really be comfortable with at this point, though.

 

From the drafters that brought you Bruce Nelson. I honestly don't have much faith in their abillity to draft. We have two or three drafts worth of mid rounders that most don't even consider worthy of starting.