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The problem is not everyone is going to have good scouting.
Combines are absolutely not meaningless and saying as such is hurtful to the community at large.
Ignoring combines is ONE way to draft. Get good scouts and then make judgement calls based on those.
But even then the combines are a useful tool to compare to what you are seeing.
Combines are fuzzier than they used to be, which means the margins of what's good/bad and inbetween is no longer a firm, hard rule. Sometimes you will get WRs who have a 4.6 40 and they're perfectly fine players. Other times you get a guy with a 4.3 40 and he sucks. Just like in real life.
Doesn't make the combines worthless, but if you DO manage to get the best scouts it does minimize the impact of combines because you're generally seeing the bars as close to true as you can.
But not everyone, especially in mp, is able to get the best scouts, especially when the best scouts are NEVER let go by the people who have them.
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