heres an analogy for you….

Its like finding the perfect girl, one who comes from wealth and will allow you to have a night out with the guys. You want a girl intelligant enough to be able to withstand a ten minute conversation unlike a certain quarterbacks girlfriend. That same girl has to be able to look like megan fox after waking up the next morning from a hardcore night of partying. The perfect girl buys you season tickets to the cowboys games on your birthday, and comes with you and cracks open a coors light with you, paints her face up blue and sivler, and acts like a moron the entire game (gettign more into it then even you)..

That my friend is what its like finding the perfect safety.. just not all that easy to find the right mix of brains, braun, physcial attributes, leadership, and chemistry.

Ed Reed happens to be the Ravens perfect girlfriend

how that would have played out? I can hear the backlash coming-LOL

Positives:

Good height and great length for a boundary corner. … Very quick feet for his size. … Runs well with taller receivers down the sideline, but also lines up in the slot. … Former receiver has great ball skills and the vertical to go up and get the ball. … Able to locate and high-point in coverage. … Elusive runner with some vision to flip field position after the interception. … Forces fumbles by using his length to get a hand on the ball. … Has the size and closing speed to be an effective blitzer. … Very quick to support the run or attack quick screens and passes in the flat. … Reacts quickly on plays in front of him and finds the ball well in the air.

<——- These are the traits I like and look for in a ballhawking certerfield FS.

Negatives:

Might be seen as a corner/safety “tweener.” … Stiff in the upper body. … Does not play with the physicality scouts would like given his size. … Is slow to adjust when backpedaling if a receiver cuts his route short or goes to the skinny post. … Catch-and-drag tackler whose height is a disadvantage when trying to bring down ballcarriers with a low center of gravity. … Inconsistent using his hands at the line of scrimmage. … Gets stuck on blocks

<——-reasons why I see him being a better FS than CB….

Takes poor angles to make tackles in space or when attacking a screen. … Just a little more than two years of experience on defense. … Cocky and talks trash.

<——- reasons that scare me using our first pick on the guy.

I would love to get him, and others I like as well in : Moore, Byrd, and Delmas at #51….but I still contend our best value at Safety is early to late in round 3, and we can get there by trading down with our 3rd rounder, or up with our top 4th pick……..

get screen shots of your comments, before and after.

and there will be a next time.

they want content sharing, they need to buy the stories.

They pay those turkeys on their staff. If they’re going to “share” content, they’re going to share money too.

“I’d rather have a big athlete than a smaller one”

I think this qualifies as a “no kidding” statement. Of course, given a choice of two athletes with equal skill, you take the bigger one. But that isn’t the point. There aren’t a dozen Darren Woodson’s in every draft, that’s why people are taking smaller players - because they value the coverage skills more than the run stopping skills and the bigger ones haw trouble covering. I suspect that’s because, if they can catch, cover, and have speed, they aren’t playing safety, they’re playing reciever.

The problem is you need two of them because the smaller guys get hurt tackling the 260lb RBs (Polalmalu, Reed, Dawkins, Sanders are all hurt a good bit). This is why playing Scandrick at FS is not a good idea, regardless of his coverage skills.

Will Moore is going to be drafted by the Eagles to replace Dawkins, probably with their 2nd 1st rd pick #28. They recently had a private workout with Moore and the Coaches had dinner with the guy.

I wrote on this a long time ago.

The Wonderlic was developed in the ‘50s. It was designed for office workers. It doesn’t measure football intelligence.

Teams need to get cognitive psychologists to design tests to measure spatial intelligence and accuracy of quick, either/or decisions. The Wonderlic measure mathematical and verbal intelligence, some trivia and some logic.

There is no direct correlation between guys who score well on the test and good performance and guys who score poorly and bad perforance.

It’s a stupid test and should be junked. What’s more, every year guys who score poorly get their scores leaked and the teams which draft them get slammed because they’re supposedly dummies.