Peyton Manning Reads His NFL Draft Scouting Report

arm strength weak can't tackle 40 time unavailable did you run the 40 no that's okay either did I did you play football no h Bill toin was right zero TV experience in your mock draft in 1979 would Mel Kyper have projected Mel Kyper to change the NFL for no way hi from the Sheridan Hotel in New York ESPN presents the 198 National Football League draft in 1980 the draft was televised For the First Time by ESPN and even in year 2 it wasn't ready for prime time okay here's commissioner Pete Rosel he is ready to make the first selection the broadcast began with the commissioner's mic turned off Joe Ryan of the NFL offices beginning to come over got to turn the microphone on before the you can hear the commissioner the 46 annual National Football League selection meeting is now in session once ESPN started televising the draft it was the first round it was just plain boring the dolphin select quarterback Dan Marino of Pittsburgh I really don't understand you wouldn't label him as a classic Don Chula kind of quarterback either no and that's true uh who could have imagined the solution was a College Dropout working out of his parents' basement I didn't know that I was going to sell insurance and do every commercial it just kind of happened wasn't really a goal of mine did you know that you always wanted to be a draft I knew when I was in high school back in those days Payton there were hardly any trades there was no free agency the draft was the only way to change your team so I knew the value of the draft and I figured okay if I'm interested all a lot of my friends were interested why wouldn't the rest of the country be interested calling schools getting tapes got the big massive dish on the roof was able to get feeds from all over 81 first book published 130 I bought that book I was five 130 customers Payton 130 customers all over the country next year went to 500 and it kept going here's Robert Massie with Mel Ker's best sheller the draft report we'll be back I'm always interested to read his book as long as he sends it free you're doing the Publications and but there's nobody on TV doing what you do now tell me how that comes about they decided defense was their major need Bud Wilkinson legendary coach he was doing the draft he was retiring they needed to fill that spot a friend of mine having lunch with Bill Fitz the producer of the draft oh a friend of mine puts out books want you talk to him I 23 got a call a couple weeks later to do the SPN stuff for that year and that was the 84 draft having Chris Burman there from the GetGo was really allowed me I think to feel a lot more comfortable he said forget the cameras just talk to me what do you think of him as a player he was a great Prospect I was very shocked that he lasted this long I think he he's got to be considered along with Boomer Rison one of the steals of this draft well handicapping this draft M you have been hot today picking some of these and then Midway late second round ESPN said were signing off from the draft they went like a tractor pull very loud while the draft was going on I'm flying back to Baltimore that's how was in 1984 changed a lot mhm over the years The Telecast got longer Mel's hair got bigger and his opinions Boulder first round Choice Jeff Logan linebacker Virginia tell you what Bob it's obvious to me right now that the Jets just don't understand what the draft's all about you're when you buy in a draft is just as important as who you select why they would take Jeff log in this High out because Beyond me if they're interested in log you move down think about it if you're an NFL team you're celebrating that pick I don't want anybody saying to my fans my my season ticket holders anything negative about those players so when you hear that you are on the defense this guy kper is not even in the league 5 years later came another memorable exchange one that would forever alter the course of draft history and make Mel Kyper Jr a household name Indianapolis has selected uh Trev Alberts linebacker from Nebraska you got a problem with this move I think it's a typical CT move I mean here's a team that needed a franchise quarterback there were two out there they have a chance at two they don't take it they take an outside linebacker at the pass up a Trent dord when all you have is Jim Harbaugh give me a break that's why the Colts are picking second every year in the draft not battling for the Super Bowl like other clubs in the National Football League was that script did you did you have an idea or you thought they were going to take Bill fore everything is totally unscripted you're off the cough who in the is Mel Kyper in a way I mean here's a guy that criticizes everybody whoever they take he's got the answers who you should take and who you shouldn't take he's never ever put on a jock strap he's never been a player he's never been a coach he's never been a scout he's never been an administrator and all of a sudden he's an expert he's in our papers two days ago telling us who we have to take we don't have to take anybody that Mel Kyper says we have to take Mel Kyper has no more credentials to do what he's doing than my neighbor and my neighbor is a postman and he doesn't even have season tickets to the NFL Freddy gelli was the producer of the draft and then Freddy says yeah you're coming back on camera 3 and it's just you and you got to react to Tobin's ripping you just just know Tobin is ripping you right now about what you said about this react to it on camera 3 well Chris I tell you I'm secure in my position obviously Bill Tobin is not very secure in his position to have a response like that I have a right to my opinion he has a right to his to me it's a mistake you cannot go with Jim Harbaugh and pass up Trent dord forget it that's why the Colts are the laughing stock of the league year in and year out April 24th 1994 a day that will live in infamy the helmet phone up there that ESPN helmet phone that's the 19 it's the helmet phone Freddy gelli said take this one this is yours this was a keeper yeah Mel's hot take her round the world made the draft a must watch all the players are at the draft now when I was there 199 there was just four of us it was me Ryan Leaf Charles Woodson Curtis enus was the fourth well the RCA Dome aka the big horseshoe will that become Payton's Place 50% of the league thought Leaf should have been won 50% of the people thought Manning should have been won with the first pick of the draft the Indianapolis Colts select quarterback University of Tennessee Payton Manning I had one guy in the NFL who's a really good Personnel guy he called me up he said if Payton Manning's name was Payton Jones it'd be a third round pick yeah yeah I didn't have any upside I mean I'm like I'm 22 I haven't even hit puberty yet I got bad acne on my CH I mean I got to have some upside I I got to grow a little bit at this point well you just said to upside that's right you were you were as good as you're going to be right the draft keeps getting better they can turn the pick at any time at making memorable moments this is a pick you have to to make it for the Packers who at 24 thinks a quarterback's going to be there going back to 1978 and see where it is now I think rewarding I guess is the word at least you had an idea that you thought could go and be successful and lead into a business it did but nobody at the time thought it could and to think it's all because Bert bell went belly up as a stock broker and the Cowboys bought a computer a computer which uncovered one of the best undrafted players of all time who delivered an alltime draft moment please welcome wide receiver Drew Pearson I watch Harry Carson go out there he read his card got booed the Giants are on the clock HS the booze I watch Clinton poris from the Redskins go out there he read his card got booed and so the commissioner he says are you ready for this I said uh I'm used to getting booed in Philadelphia so this is no big deal Dallas we ha you Dallas how about them Cowboys but I'm fired up you didn't pick the wrong guy the boo I want to thank the eagle fans for allowing me to have a career in the NFL thank you and on behalf of the five-time world champion Dallas Cowboys all the Cowboy players that played before me that played with me and played after me with the second pick and the second the 60th pick in the second round the Dallas Cowboys select deive back from Colorado chobi a for a guy that didn't get drafted all right 17 rounds of the draft 450 something players Payton now you're known for the draft okay Isn't that cool that's funny only in in the NFL only in the NFL amen is this 98 this is 98 you and Ryan Le something remind me of all right what I look like in' 9898 before my braces had kicked in I don't really like the picture already I said in this right up one of the more heralded college players in recent memory no one studies harder takes the job more seriously players have told me that Manning probably understands what's going on better than most offensive and defensive coordinator we got to just get going we got to get going We Can't Stop Manning will win and win big at the pro level let me see this let me see this mhm struggled against UCLA nearly blowing a size of a lead and were then whipped soundly by Florida I had a lot of plays in my career the only play I see kind of uh giv the play bypl is a pick six prep level Manning was the second Team all state short stop second team I thought it wasn't I believe First Team 440 batting average that seems a little low

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Published: Wed Apr 17 2024