Senior Bowl

Brinkley wasn't very impressive in the Shrine Game practices. Slow recognition skills could be his downfall.

One thing he's got over Maualuga: he's a chiseled 6'2", 262 lbs. Very low body fat.

ballpeen

Jasper is a good player...I worry about his speed a bit..big hitter though

ballpeen

@ballpeen said:
Jasper is a good player...I worry about his speed a bit..big hitter though

I think part of the reason why I'm not high on Brinkley is because Eric Norwood was the SC linebacker I wanted. Of the two, Norwood's the much better player.

JewDago

Aloysius said:
I think part of the reason why I'm not high on Brinkley is because Eric Norwood was the SC linebacker I wanted. Of the two, Norwood's the much better player.

though norwood's the better player and can play all the time, do you not think that brinkley can be a good situational guy?

because his size is daunting.

I could see him being an asset in goal line situations, kind of like what the Chargers do with Brandon Siler.

But I wonder how much better he'll be in those situations than a healthy Beau Bell. He's certainly bigger, but I don't know how much better a run-stuffer he is.

JewDago

rey's looked really good as an edge rusher today. he's beaten TEs regularly to both the outside and inside.

he's using an inside rip move that he sets up with an initial outside rush with incredibly effectiveness. he's made it look easy at least twice in a row.

JewDago

chip vaughn looked good in coverage. he read the receiver and stuck his hands out to break up a pass without making too much contact.

JewDago

alphonso smith made a great play to pick off a pass in one on ones. his coverage in the fist place was exceptional, then he tipped the ball to himself and came down with it against a taller receiver.

WILLIAM MOORE
Safety, Missouri

“(He) probably is my most disappointing player,” Mayock said. “After his junior year I thought he might be a top-20 pick. He came back for his senior year and he did not play well. He fought through some injuries. It looks to me that he might be more of a linebacker than a safety. He’s not coming out of his breaks. He doesn’t run well. There is a buzz around here that he might be a linebacker.”

via here.

The Panthers' Thomas Davis made the transition quite successfully. Could Moore play ILB for us?

JewDago

usc's patrick turner just torched alphonso smith with a stutter step. absolutely froze him. turner dropped a pass that hit him in the hands earlier during practice, though.

JewDago

they didn't show all of the 9 on 7, but mayock said that maualuga's been great during it today. 'shot out of a cannon' was what he said about him.

the offense handily won the three runs that they actually showed.

Thanks for summarizing what's going on, JD. I'm on a phone call & can't pay attention to what's going on.

Keep it coming.

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Aloysius said:
I'm on a phone call & can't pay attention to what's going on.

Alo, can you please not let your job interfere with our Senior Bowl coverage?

JewDago

@ mz the pussy: normally, guys who transition from S to LB are limited to playing for 4-3 or cover 2 teams because they can't add the bulk necessary to be big enough for the 3-4. he'd have to add at least 15 pounds of muscle at the very least, more like 25 to get up to 255, and learn a completely new position. at least a WLB in the 4-3 has similar duties to a safety; stop the run, cover a RB. 3-4 WLBs have to blitz a lot more.

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mz. said:
Alo, can you please not let your job interfere with our Senior Bowl coverage?

JewDago

georgia's DE, #90, whose name i forget, has looked good in consecutive one on ones, once with a bull rush and the other time with an inside rip.

it's irvin. and he looked good again later.

JewDago

fili maola first got handled then came back and pushed his o-lineman back into the QB.

clay matthews just destroyed michael oher with a bull rush and then got tackled by him when he spun to the inside. two great wins for matthews.

JewDago

veikune from hawaii has looked great today. fast, good explosion to the outside and the strength to push tackles back once he's locked up.

JewDago

moala's looked good again in two later reps against interior o-linemen when he used both strength and agility to get past them.

JewDago

alabama's center/guard, caldwell, has looked good three out of the four times he's been matched up against anyone. he got beat with a speed rush where he just couldn't catch up to an initial burst, but came back and manhandled the guy next time.

irvin from georgia just got run out of the play to the outside by a tackle from tulane, then came back and fought through him on the next play.