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FWtex said
LOL, your nuts. So what was showing was just his athletic ability? I can go down to the park and grab guys with athletic ability and they would be nothing compared to any of those guys at the combine.

As someone else beat me to it, Jason David has tons of athletic ability and he did not convert very well to the man defense. I recall numerous occasions of you gloating how good JD (and others) looked at training camp.

What about the number of CB people bring up on here as a possibility only to have those players shot down because they are a cover 2 CB? If you had two equally talented players, one from a zones scheme and one from a man scheme, which one are you going to choose?

And as has already been pointed out, JD's struggles had little to do with the scheme. He struggled in the Cover 2 all year. All teams play zone and man. He had mental breakdowns that put him out of position, not coverage problems. When he was actually in coverage he was fine. JD also suffers from being severly undersized. Hes 5'8" 165 pounds.

The way some people talk about zone vs. man corners you'd think they are two different spieces of human or something, as if no zone corner could ever be good at man coverage.