Great Mediocrity! Springtime Predictions, Ranked by Silliness

May 17, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

There is no such thing as a pessimist at an NFL minicamp.
Everyone's undefeated. The rookies all look "sharp" (other than Corey Coleman). Even the veterans who are rehabbing injuries or holding out are confident that everything will be just fine by the start of training camp. It's always sunny at minicamp, even in Philadelphia, where both Carson Wentz and Sam Bradford are singing "Kumbaya," though not in the same room at the same time.
May is the time for empty-calorie cheese-puff predictions and proclamations from rookie camps, minicamps, OTAs or veteran players cornered by reporters during charity golf tournaments. Some of the soundbites are sillier than others, but all are utterly insubstantial. The only thing worse than analyzing them as if they were philosophical statements by learned scholars (not polite musings by guys who just got done stretching) would be to rank them from most to least reasonable.
Wait, did someone say "rank the minicamp predictions from most t...

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