Daboll grilling Jayden Daniels

[AZGiantFan]

If the top QBs get the same treatment from all of the teams the combine must be mentally exhausting for them.

[MightyGiants]

If the top QBs get the same treatment from all of the teams the combine must be mentally exhausting for them.

Which is just another test.  The NFL grind can be pretty exhausting.

[MightyGiants]

But now aren't you're extrapolating that Daniels can't comprehend complex offenses from a single 30 second clip which to me doesn't seem fair to him. Maybe he crushed the rest of that interview with flying colors, maybe he crushed ALL the interviews with flying colors.  We don't know one way or another.

I also agree that everything should factor into a QBs evaluation, but to me the most important factor is how he does on the field.  Which doesn't always prove correct but seems to have less of a margin of error than simply evaluating if a player can read a playbook.

Any QB taken in the top 10 (or probably in the draft at all) is going to be able to explain how a play is designed to work.  Every system is of course different, terminology not exactly the same, but the route tree is the route tree and zone coverage is zone coverage.  So that's why I say it's great if a QB can sit in a classroom and break down every play every decision every nuanced detail of every situation but if they get on the field and all of that goes out the window while they're dumping the ball off 2 yards down the field what have you actually accomplished?

We'll find out soon enough whether Daniels can handle an NFL offense because he's going to be starting from Day 1 over there.  He'll have some hiccups along the way but my evaluation tells me that we're going to see more good than bad, and we're going to see a lot of great things out of him over the next few seasons.

The Giants scout said that it was important to get Daniels on the board and test his recall.  Do you think Daniels aced that?  He gave the wrong answer twice to the recall question, and he didn't know the open receiver in a given pattern against a certain defense.

Almost all the first-round QBs look good on the college field, but that doesn't prevent a high bust rate.  Things like the mental side of the game are the factors that cause those good looking QBs on the college field from making the transition to the NFL> 

[DaveBrown74]

I would not conclude anything about that tiny video snippet of Maye.  He answered some but mostly it was Dabs explaining some verbiage differences.  More of a learning piece IMHO.

I agree. These were great scenes but you can't make draw big conclusions based on these 45 second snippets.

One can take the knowledge we have that the Giants were interested (to some extent) in trading up to 3, and extrapolate that they loved Maye, but as outsiders we are all dealing with very incomplete information here, and I'd say it is useful to remind ourselves of that from time to time.

[MightyGiants]

I would not conclude anything about that tiny video snippet of Maye.  He answered some but mostly it was Dabs explaining some verbiage differences.  More of a learning piece IMHO.

I don't think you can draw too strong of a conclusion, but Daniels not knowing where to go with the ball vs a certain defense was less than ideal.  While he got most of the play call right (making the same mistake at the end of the call twice), I thought he did well to recall the play after some further discussion.

Still, it wasn't just the interview.  There was already a warning from the scouts who said that part of the interview was very important.