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Safety position- Any new updates on prospects?

Pete said:
If your looking for immediate help from a HS recruit for 2014 over what we currently have,I don't think that recruit exists.
A D1 safety is too complicated a position for someone three months out of HS.
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Bush was our best safety as a true freshman last year....and we're looking for depth, we good with a healthy bush and jenkins last year, need to add bodies
 
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I really really like Grace and I think he needs to get on the field. If, and only If he can't pack on the weight that Al wants his LBs to be at, do we consider a move to safety? I think he has the hips and speed to play safety, and his football IQ is way up there....
 
BigCaneAl said:
I really really like Grace and I think he needs to get on the field. If, and only If he can't pack on the weight that Al wants his LBs to be at, do we consider a move to safety? I think he has the hips and speed to play safety, and his football IQ is way up there....
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NO!

Why try another Ray Ray experiment by having a guy who is outgrowing Safety try to play there instead of OLB.

Moving Grace to S would just make us slower, Grace should be able to pack on at least 10-15 lbs this off season.

He will be a stud OLB
 
tyrn said:
BigCaneAl said:
I really really like Grace and I think he needs to get on the field. If, and only If he can't pack on the weight that Al wants his LBs to be at, do we consider a move to safety? I think he has the hips and speed to play safety, and his football IQ is way up there....
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NO!

Why try another Ray Ray experiment by having a guy who is outgrowing Safety try to play there instead of OLB.

Moving Grace to S would just make us slower, Grace should be able to pack on at least 10-15 lbs this off season.

He will be a stud OLB
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Grace isn't slow at all, and he's not 6'4 like Ray Ray.
 
A few of the other ACC coaches pitched in to sign a petition and get Highsmith an extra year here. We're all set.
 
A worse play by a safety, the Highsmith play on Saturday or the Rodgers play from two years ago?
 
BigCaneAl said:
tyrn said:
BigCaneAl said:
I really really like Grace and I think he needs to get on the field. If, and only If he can't pack on the weight that Al wants his LBs to be at, do we consider a move to safety? I think he has the hips and speed to play safety, and his football IQ is way up there....
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NO!

Why try another Ray Ray experiment by having a guy who is outgrowing Safety try to play there instead of OLB.

Moving Grace to S would just make us slower, Grace should be able to pack on at least 10-15 lbs this off season.

He will be a stud OLB
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Grace isn't slow at all, and he's not 6'4 like Ray Ray.
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He doesn't need to be 6'4 like Ray Ray to "outgrow" the Safety position which he already did his Jr year in HS when he switched to OLB full time b/c he knows that OLB is his future and only real shot at the NFL not Safety.

He no longer has the hips and quickness to play Safety at the level we need, and I'm completely fine with that b/c we recruited him to play OLB here, and that is what he will play.

IMO asking a growing player to try and keep his weight down so he can play a certain position is stupid (especially when we are talking Safety to LB [hips, quickness, speed, coverage]) and is harder than having him add a 10/15 lbs on the off season like McCord to be an every down LB.

We signed him as a LB to play LB, so lets just keep him there
 
I kinda feel bad for AJ. He's doing the best he can but he's not athletically able to compete with top guys.

He's a smart guy so I'm sure he realizes this and it's gotta kill him.
 
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I really think Hope or Gunter will move to Safety full time in the spring. It is clearly a down year at safety this season and with 2015 being so loaded at Safety I think the staff will work with what they have and wait to make a splash in 2015.
 
I really want us to put the full court press on UL Safety commit Marquez Gayote to flip, and push hard to flip JC Jackson from UF(he is more of a CB than Safety though).

If we somehow strike out at Safety this cycle and especially if ATH Trayon Gray(possible Safety) doesn't make it academically, we will have the most favorable depth chart at the Safety position out there, and 2015 might be the best and most stocked Safety class I can remember, especially in south FL.

IMO we should def sign at least 3 Safeties in 2015 and Jaquan Johnson better be one of them.
 
Artie Burns and Larry Hope should move to safety

L. Gunter is the best corner on the team going into his senior season would be unfair and ridiculous to ask him to move to safety.
 
zone3cane said:
Artie Burns and Larry Hope should move to safety

L. Gunter is the best corner on the team going into his senior season would be unfair and ridiculous to ask him to move to safety.
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Burns at safety. Sounds good to me. I think we should move Gunter there temp until Bush gets right. He should come around by the end of the year. Just in time for FSU in the ACC champ game. We can also play with 3 or 4 corners with RS playing safety. We have good corners.
 
Hstokes1447 said:
I really think Hope or Gunter will move to Safety full time in the spring. It is clearly a down year at safety this season and with 2015 being so loaded at Safety I think the staff will work with what they have and wait to make a splash in 2015.
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There's been rumors the staff will move Hope to safety, unless he transfers .
 
zone3cane said:
Artie Burns and Larry Hope should move to safety

L. Gunter is the best corner on the team going into his senior season would be unfair and ridiculous to ask him to move to safety.
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Agree burns at safety instantly gives us a sideline to sideline safety, he will be big and is already light speed fast. Disagree on Gunt being best corner Il take me some Tray How as the best. Isnt Hope tiny though,I know Joyner is small but he makes up for it with stupid speed and attitude.
 
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Bush, Gunter, Howard, and Burns should be our starting secondary. I think Burns's upside at safety is insane.
 
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