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I figured as much. He's not grasping the game on a mental level.
May I inquire as to your preferred brand of glue?I figured as much. He's not grasping the game on a mental level.
Whereas James Laurinaitis can probably be a coach one day, but isn't athletic enough to make the plays based off what he sees.
If fusion were a thing, Jamthone Anthonaitis would be Luke Keuchley 2.0.
...which is why I've shifted my draft attentions to three names.
Anthony Walker from Northwestern
Rueben Foster from Alabama
Zach Cunningham from Vanderbilt.
Anyone got any other 3 down linebackers in college to keep and eye on?
As I studied Anthony more I became nitpicky. I noticed that he is fidgety almost hyper active vs the patience of players like Dawson/Kendricks who maintain gap integrity.
Anthony is so aggressive he can be PA faked or led astray. He wants to make every play and it can be worked against him. He will leave open cut back lanes for RB's (Gurley Run against Georgia) that end up being big plays and that's one of the negatives I have.
He also isn't ALWAYS physical. In that same Georgia game I saw him get man handled at the POA on several occasions. Instead of working leverage he allows blocker to get into him and then he gets on skates. He must learn to leverage and use his hands better. He has the tools to do it but he needs to be properly coached on it. At times he almost plays like a Will.
Lastly he takes bad angles especially against speedier backs. He knows he has wheels but he is also bad at judging the wheels of other players. He took horrible angles on Gurley on more than one occasion.
The Biggest positive I have on him is that I watched him as the game progresses and you won't fool him twice. He began to get back in coverage faster at the snap of the ball, and he became more decisive. He learns the game as he goes. If you can get him lined up where he is more sure of himself earlier in games due to good film study during the weak he can have even bigger impact in games.
In other words he's instinctive in game. I however don't think he's film study instinctive just yet ie knowing the plays before hand and automatically attacking and being sure of himself.
It appears that he gets more comfortable with what he's seeing as the game progresses. If we can line up his presnap reads with his in game prowess he should get that much better as once he realizes what's going on he's there in an instant.
I'm confused. They fired Rob cause the defense was too complex. Promoted DA to make the defense simple so that players can play faster. Now we have a fast, hard hitting, 1st round LB that is to dumb for the simple defense designed to think less and play fast...
Football is not complicated. Coaching is complicated, not everyone can do it. Since DA did not hire his staff, he gets a pass currently. BUT! Let's make sure that we are not witnessing SP trying to match out D to Seattle when we clearly don't have their personnel.
Stephon Anthony may be confused -- look to the coaches, Joe Vitt included. IT ticks me off to think about benching that boy behind second string players.
Football is not complicated. Coaching is complicated, not everyone can do it. Since DA did not hire his staff, he gets a pass currently. BUT! Let's make sure that we are not witnessing SP trying to match out D to Seattle when we clearly don't have their personnel.
Stephon Anthony may be confused -- look to the coaches, Joe Vitt included. IT ticks me off to think about benching that boy behind second string players.