A sleeper emerges at QB in Arizona after another high profile scouting failure in the NFL

Do you really want to work in the personnel office of a National Football League team? Or even be someone on TV, radio, or the Internet suggesting who the best players available in the NFL Draft will be? Would you dare say publically who a specific team should consider in regards to the franchise’s needs??

Then get ready to be humbled, and often.

Just the quarterback position alone proves the total crapshoot in trying to determine what a player’s ability or potential may be. And very often it comes down to attributes that cannot be measured at the NFL Combine or even on a Wonderlic test. Maybe it’s that ‘swagger’ rating used in the Madden 11 game.

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Las Vegas Bowl Spread and Pick: Oregon State v BYU

After a 2 week hiatus, due to much needed research for the upcoming college Bowl Season. The Guru is looking to go over the 60% mark picking against the spread this college football season.

Usually over the years the Guru nails the Bowl games, so hopefully history will repeat itself. We’ll begin by looking at tonight’s Last Vegas Bowl matchup between Oregon State and BYU.

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