As has been detailed extensively in this space, the NFL scouting combine and annual cattle market happened over the last week. Future NFL players were poked and probed, weighed, measured, tested and made to participate in every conceivable drill from the 40-yard dash to shuttle runs to the egg-on-a-spoon obstacle course.

Of course, a big part of the assessment process for the draftees was the interview process. If you remember from the last two drafts, the Jets have become notorious for their detailed mental profiling, including in-depth psychological testing. This year’s combine was no different, except this time, we were able to gain access to a copy of what we were told was the Jets’ test. And although not exactly the Wonderlic, the test does have 1,968 questions, only half of which are essays.

Rather than spending 7 hours reading it, here are –

The Top 10 Questions on The Jets’ Combine Psychological Test

10. What does this ink blot remind you of?

• Broccoli
• Molecular structure of H2O
• Jar Jar Binks
• Richard Simmons
• Playing football and scoring touchdowns
• Saturday night after the game when the real scoring begins

9. A train leaves Chicago going East at 45 miles per hour, while another leaves New York headed west at 58 miles per hour. With a gusting wind coming from the northeast at 21 miles per hour, an average daily humidity of 27% and having to stop to pick up passengers every 16 miles, plus accounting for gravity, atmospheric pressure and the yield/tensile ratio of the steel rails .. . what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

8. Which of the following best describes you?

• Free spirit who does what he wants when he wants
• A loner and rebel
• A show-me-the-money playah
• Locker room lawyer
• Me-first prima donna
• Has trouble coloring within the lines but likes the taste of paste
• Mindless boy scout automaton

7. Have you ever played quarterback, either on the college, high school, junior, grammar school, midget, peewee, semi-pro, sandlot, Canadian, Australian, NFL Europe or Tecmo Bowl level?

6. What is the sound of a one-handed flag girl clapping?

5. What is your favorite color combination?

• Red, white, blue and silver
• Aquamarine and orange
• Black and white
• Black and blue
• Blush and bashful
• Green and white

4. Football hypothetical: It’s the 4th quarter of a NFL playoff game that’s all tied up with only a few seconds left on the clock. You’ve just intercepted at the opponent’s 37-yard line and rather than try for the winning TD, you run weakly into the line three times before giving your kicker — who just missed a field goal of almost the same length only a minute and a half ago — a chance to kick a 43-yard field goal in a stadium where no visiting kicker has ever hit one from that distance, on the week following a game which you won when the opposing coach made the same poor decision, and after you’ve made stirring speeches about playing to win the game . . . .. WHY?! WHY?! Why the hell would you do that? Why would any sort of even half-witted football coach do that? For the love of Joe Willie Namath, it’s been three years and we still want to know WHY?!!!!!!!

3. Do you like movies about gladiators? How about boxing videos?

2. What is your favorite jersey number?

• #12
• #13
• #28
• #50
• #73
• #80
• #81

1. How do you spell JETS?

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