Well, it appears Mike Florio and Chris Simms of NBC Sports are again upset with Adam Peters and Dan Quinn.
Last year, the two expressed their frustration in how the Commanders’ bosses were treating their prospective draft choices, taking them to Top Golf. The Commanders’ Peters and Quinn liked the informality of the gathering last year and determined to schedule it again this 2025 draft season.
Florio and Simms, on their NBC Sports “Pro Football Talk” program, again went after the Commanders’ duo of Peters and Quinn on Wednesday.
The beginning of the segment featured video footage of Quincy Riley, a cornerback from Louisville (formerly Middle Tennessee) who is projected as a mid-round pick by some analysts. Riley was seen attempting to hit a golf ball with a driver (the hardest club to hit effectively). Riley clearly was inexperienced at this.
Simms began, sarcastically declaring, “They can’t draft him now, right? Because he didn’t do good at Top Golf.” Simms continued, “I don’t like that. I’m just telling you. I don’t care. You are treating players like zoo animals.”
“Exactly! responded Florio. “Let’s put them in this environment and let’s study them.”
Simms, increasingly assertive offered, “I don’t like that crap! They think they are right because they were going to take Jayden Daniels at No. 2 if he just sat down in the corner and didn’t hit one golf ball! Don’t give me that bull crap. I don’t like it, I don’t like it one bit. I’m just going to say it.”
Sims then rhetorically asked, “You don’t have enough research? You haven’t watched enough film? You don’t have people who are scouting that school? We got to go out here one more time? What does that really mean?”
Pointing to how all sorts of great quarterbacks would respond differently due to their different personalities, Simms mockingly suggested that would mean Joe Montana was not competitive since he was quiet.
“What if one of the guys were smart enough to say, ‘This is a disrespectful, dehumanizing social experiment,'” asked Florio. “‘They are treating us like zoo animals here. They are watching us, they are making notes.'”
“What if one of the guys were smart enough to say?”
Did Florio actually say that? I went back and watched the tape. He did indeed.
Florio then surprisingly suggested that if the Top Golf gathering were something fresh in scouting, then some other team would have done it this year. Never lacking in confidence, Florio thought he was expressing something profound. However, the reality of the situation is that someone else (the Raiders) had already joined the Commanders in conducting their own informal Top Golf outing. We know this because Ashton Jeanty had already tweeted earlier that prior to the Commanders’ Top Golf outing, the Raiders had done so.
Florio let it get personal and had to get in his jab on the Commanders — again. Hey Mike, you do realize Daniel Snyder is no longer the owner? You do realize you don’t have to go after them as you once did?
If Florio and Simms are so incensed by the Top Golf informal gathering, then how much more upset should they be with the NFL combine where players run drills, are timed, lift weights, execute jumping drills, are interviewed and every single element is graded?
Why is there more passion against this than the combine?
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