QB Guru George Whitfield On Connor Cook Criticism: 'It's BS'
By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc
Former Michigan State QB Connor Cook has been criticized from the start of the 2015 season about why teammates failed to make him the captain.
Is he cocky? Is he too arrogant? Why don't his teammates like him? Those are just a few of the questions that were asked about Cook when he wasn't named a captain.
With the NFL combine last week, teams have had a chance to speak with the QB.
Word here at the Senior Bowl; MSU teammates have been less than effusive in their praise of quaterback Connor Cook.
— Tony Pauline (@TonyPauline) January 26, 2016
Now QB guru George Whitfield is sticking up for Cook, according to Jason McIntyre and TheBigLead.com:
"It's bulls---. You're the first person to ask about it, and I've got to say, there hasn't been a more quintessential franchise guy since Andrew Luck that I've come here with," Whitfield said, trying to keep his intensity under wraps. "
Whitfield went on to say, "He has a coal miner's mentality from the Midwest. He won 34 games, and came back to school and took Michigan State to the Final 4 where he lost to Alabama, but who was great against Alabama?"
Last year, Whitfield and QBs Jameis Winston and Bryce Petty joined Jim Harbaugh in Ann Arbor. Winston went on to be the first pick in the 2015 NFL Draft to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Petty was drafted in the fourth round by the New York Jets.