Did it worry you, too?
It certainly worried me =- tremendously so, enough, in fact, that if I were the Browns, I’m not sure I would select him anywhere in the 2017 NFL Draft, least of all near the top of it.
We’re talking about Mitch – er, excuse me, Mitchell – Trubisky’s insistence that he be referred to by the latter first name, not the former one.
Let’s see, for as long as anyone can remember – at least anyone nationally, and that’s all that counts now as the draft nears – he went by Mitchell and now all of a sudden – out of the clear blue, really – he changes it to Mitchell?
Honestly?!
You’re kidding, right?!
This young man from Mentor High School and the University of North Carolina is nearing the most important day of his young career, and instead of worrying about important things like his arm strength, ability to read defenses, his size – or lack thereof – and everything else under the sun that prospective employers will look at and scrutinize to the nth degree, he’s worried about making a first-name change?
That screams of being egotistical.
That screams of misplaced priorities.
To be perfectly blunt – and that’s the way teams now are viewing everything, and we do mean everything, about these prospects – that screams of being ignorant, even stupid.
Why would he do that?
More importantly, why would his professional people – his agents, his parents, his former coaches at North Carolina and the other adults surrounding him in his life right now, those who know better or at least should know better – let him do that?
It’s just a bad look.
It’s just a really bad look.
Teams now have to consider if they want someone who views something so very trivial as something so very important at such a very crucial time and, as it were, inopportune time, as possibly the face of their franchise.
If I were the Browns – Mitch, or Mitchell, Trubisky’s hometown Browns, or any team, for that matter – I would say emphatically no.
For him, it will likely prove to be a very costly name change.
