Spelling and grammar errors, while embarrassing, happen online. You’ve probably noticed as much reading this site. Heck, even spelling names incorrectly can happen. On draft sites, mistyping someone’s height or weight, to a degree, happens frequently. Whatever, it’s not the end of the world.
Todd McShay’s curious evaluation of Whitney Mercilus
Todd McShay's write-up on Illinois junior defensive end Whitney Mercilus in his latest rankings update stuck out to me, though. Observe:
Wha? Wha huh? Uh. Oooh boy. I’m perfectly fine with disagreeing with someone’s opinion and them disagreeing with mine. I also realize that today is Thanksgiving (hooray!) and people will pack on some weight. But it’s unlikely that McShay has projected Mercilus to eat 100 pounds of turkey and fixings. It’s true that, like me, Mercilus is from Northeast Ohio, one of the fattest ares of the country.
This, however, is just absurd. It’s like McShay, of ESPN’s Scouts Inc., did a fat guy paint by numbers. What grit and hustle stereotyping is to white player evaluation, moving well for his size is to over-size defensive linemen. Mercilus, though, is listed at 265 pounds by Illinois.
Typically I’m not the type to hate on McShay (in fact, I like him quite a bit), but this sort of thing is ridiculous. How does it even happen? ESPN.com recently hired an NFL Draft editor. Maybe they hired the wrong guy. (I am not bitter about that, by the way. Tee-hee)
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