NFL Draft: Teams need to analyze Josh Rosen with their eyes, not their ears
Teams need to analyze Josh Rosen with their eyes, not their ears (cont.)
Let us assume that these things are true. If that is the case, then they are clearly happening behind closed doors because aside from a few brash posts on social media (the hottub incident, the Trump hat) he has not done anything to incur the wrath that he has taken from college football pundits.
Josh Rosen is a near-perfect QB prospect, but his willingness to speak his mind scares teams — “The last thing we need is the face of our team tweeting about the president when we’re on a losing streak.” https://t.co/HIKY1jBopi pic.twitter.com/XFtJ9Non3k
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 16, 2018
I do agree that inflammatory statements said in the public or on social media could ignite a fire storm, but (1) Rosen has not said or done anything that has hurt an individual and (2) it does not matter because what he says about issues that he cares about, have no relevance on how he will perform on the gridiron.
Additionally, Rosen knows what he has done publicly and is trying to make it right.
He recently admitted in an ESPN interview, “Maybe a little bit of me was a jerk in the past. I’m trying to wipe it away.” Is there no room for forgiveness or are we going to hold every athlete to the sins of their past (though nothing Rosen has done could be considered a sin, don’t tell that to certain experts).
Maybe it is damage control, maybe it is a concerted effort to conform, maybe it is both, either way, Rosen is trying to evolve and one way to do that is to adjust his image, is that not respectable in the eyes of NFL teams? With that being said, let us focus on the things that make Rosen the best quarterback in the 2018 NFL Draft.