[Anhil8tor]

We've confirmed that Texas quarterback Vince Young has indeed scored a measly six on the Wonderlic test, administered annually to the potential members of the draft class at the scouting combine.



Said one league insider, "It's also the number of the round he'll be drafted in."



There's a significant buzz in Indy regarding the ridiculously low marks. Though we're not quite sure that there's much of a correlation between book smarts and football ability, we've got a feeling that, of all positions, quarterback is the one that requires at least some basic cognitive ability.



Unless, of course, the offense consists of making one read and then pulling the ball down and running -- which is the very approach the team that drafts Young might have to employ.



Though the suggestion that Young will last until round six is an exaggeration, the thinking is that he lost millions of dollars via his poor performance on the test, and that it's now a virtual certainty that Vanderbilt quarterback Jay Cutler will pass him in round one.

[BIRD33]

He got a 16 not a 6 which isnt that impressive either.I heard his stock is dropping and he'll be the 3rd or 4th QB picked.

[Anhil8tor]

He scored a 6 saturday.. a 16 on sunday

DUDE WHO LEAKED YOUNG SCORE TO BE POOP-CANNED



A league source tells us that the fallout from the Vince Young Wonderlic fiasco will include a pink slip for the person who initially leaked to NFL types attending the combine that Young scored only a six on the test.



The thinking in league circles is that the leaker won't be abruptly fired, but that the person gradually will be outplaced in order to avoid drawing any further public attention to an episode that entails layers of embarrassment for the NFL and the folks who run the combine. (See John Collins, who took the fall for the Janet Jackson boob-drop by becoming the CEO of the Browns.)



It's not presently clear whether the leaker is an employee of the NFL, an NFL team, or the combine itself.



The test results are confidential. The teams receive the official numbers after the combine concludes. The fact that anyone learned Young's score on Saturday is a clear breach of combine protocol, and we're told that the powers-that-be know exactly who was responsible for the information getting out.



Meanwhile, we continue to be troubled by the fact that Young was permitted to take the test again on Sunday. He took it Saturday; that's the test that should have been graded and reported to the teams.



This whole "do-ever" dynamic also has us wondering whether, unbeknownst to anyone not affiliated with the combine, other big-name players from big-time programs have gotten a second bite at the Wonderlic apple when generating bad scores in the past.



Our guess is that it has happened. Since the overriding goal apparently is to keep the colleges from looking bad when folks realize how little these guys have actually learned during their time there -- and since it's inevitable that the numbers will get out -- we've got no doubt that other guys whose names we'd all instantly recognize got another chance to take the test after scoring in the single digits the first time around.

[Anhil8tor]

Here's the sequence of events, in the order the info came to us.



1. Word broke on Saturday afternoon of the test score. We heard it from a league source in Indy who was "99 percent" certain that the score was accurate. We later confirmed from another league source at the combine that Young had scored a six.



2. Word of the score spread faster than a blister-causing virus at Ron Mexico's high school reunion. By Saturday night, it was the talk of the town.



3. By Sunday morning, other publications had reported on the score.



4. By early Sunday afternoon, there were rumors that the combine officials were re-checking Young's test in order to determine whether it had been properly graded.



5. By late Sunday afternoon, we heard that the guy responsible for grading the test had screwed the thing up.



6. At about the same time, Texans G.M. Charley Casserly announced to 100 or so reporters that the report of the low score was inaccurate. He offered no other details.



7. By Sunday evening, we heard that some now believe the test was graded properly, and that someone had cobbled together the grading error excuse because Texas coach Mack Brown's head nearly exploded once he learned that the low score had been leaked.

http://www.packersnews.com/archives/news...6443.shtml

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/3687374.html

This latest development will only feed speculation that the NFL is doing its best to keep Texas coach Mack Brown happy. You see, the league has a weird relationship with college coaches. The NFL tiptoes around them, and the college coaches periodically poop all over the NFL.



It's all about access. Every year, NFL scouts need to be able to visit campus and attend practice so that they can make observations regarding players in a non-game football setting. Without such access, the NFL teams are limited to game films and pre-draft shirts-and-shorts workouts.



So with Mack Brown likely miffed about the implication that the University of Texas somehow put through the educational system a guy who could only muster a six out of 50 on the Wonderlic, it could be that it was time for the NFL and the combine officials to engage in some sweeping damage control.



And it's a specific effort to engage in damage control that often leads to multiple measures that seem to be logically inconsistent. If the test wasn't scored properly, then re-score the damn thing. Case closed. When the powers-that-be opt to also re-do the test, the whole thing starts to smell, in our opinion.



Then again, it's not as if a 16 qualifies Young to have afternoon tea with Stephen Hawking.



Bottom line -- it's time for the NFL to lay out in detail all of the facts on this one, embarrassing as some of them might be. Because without a full and clear explanation, it sure looks to us as if someone was bending the rules for Young in order to keep Mack Brown happy.

[Anhil8tor]

On Monday, Peter King of Sports Illustrated told Dan Patrick of ESPN Radio that Texas quarterback Vince Young was completely unprepared for the Wonderlic test at the scouting combine.



King said (and we're paraphrasing) that Young had no idea that he'd be given the 50-question exam.



If so, then shame on agent Major Adams. And shame on Young for not affiliating with an experienced agent who knows that one of the things that happens at Indy is that the kids take the Wonderlic.



We'd previously heard that agent Bus Cook was working behind the scenes with Young, but that Cook wasn't -- and wouldn't be -- front and center because Cook represents Vanderbilt quarterback Jay Cutler. We're now intrigued by the possibility that Cook might have generally clammed up as Cutler has inched toward a possible leapfrog over Young.



Regardless, someone should have had Young at least aware of the 50-question, 12-minute test that he'd be taking. Hell, when he heard the word "Wonderlic," he probably thought they were serving ice cream for lunch.



Bottom line -- Vince, friends are friends but business is business. It's time to cut the cord on Adams, because when someone doesn't know what they don't know, that's the worst kind of dangerous you can have, especially when you're dealing with a process that translates into millions of dollars for every spot that your name remains on the board.

[Anhil8tor]

Here's the last word (for now) on the Vince Young Wonderlic fiasco. Although one of our team-level sources told us on Sunday that no scores were reported for Young in the Wonderlic results that were distributed by the combine, two other sources tell us that the report shows Young scoring a 15 out of 50, with an indication that he answered only 33 of the questions in his 12-minute time allotment.



The report only mentions one score, ignoring completely the test Young took on Saturday.



Young's agent, Major Adams, previously acknowledged that the former Texas quarterback took a second test on Sunday. Adams claimed that Young got a 16.



To date, no one from the NFL or the combine has addressed Young's score from the first time he took the test, other than to say that the report that he got a six was inaccurate.



Until someone comes clean on what happened on Saturday, this story will continue to hang around. For now, we're going to assume that Vince got a six on Saturday, since no one has put forth any objective proof to the contrary.