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Sam Brooks Leaving?

Last time I checked this board was still optimistic about him, lol. When Jennings is playing every one of them is garbage.
 
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rok said:
Brooks should come back in 2022 and request to play DE.
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That's the position he played in high school but he's way too small to play end right now. McCloud was already bigger than Brooks and still had to gain 30lbs to play the position.
 
Tweener. Said it for a year before he signed here.

Again, for the zillionth time, the blueprint that Miami originated, and has since been copied for the past 30 years, is playing kids DOWN a level. You take the fast, twitchy HS Safety and put him in the box. You take the athletic HS Backer and put his hand in the dirt. You take the agile HS DE and put him at 3 technique. This really isn't difficult.

When this kid was being recruited, everyone told me not to worry, that we'd have no issues taking one of the premier edge rushers in the state and making him a run and hit outside backer. Oops.

It's the reason I had zero real aspirations for this kid. What he did best was rush the passer. He's not big enough to do that at this level. So we moved him UP a level and tried to make him a backer. Dumb. Truthfully, this kid's best route would have been go somewhere in the G5 and just be an edge rusher. He could have thrived at somewhere like Marshall or App State being a pure edge rusher. He doesn't have the body to match his skills at this level.

Hope this post finds it's way bumped next fall when he has 14 tackles in a game, but I'd be more than surprised.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Tweener. Said it for a year before he signed here.

Again, for the zillionth time, the blueprint that Miami originated, and has since been copied for the past 30 years, is playing kids DOWN a level. You take the fast, twitchy HS Safety and put him in the box. You take the athletic HS Backer and put his hand in the dirt. You take the agile HS DE and put him at 3 technique. This really isn't difficult.

When this kid was being recruited, everyone told me not to worry, that we'd have no issues taking one of the premier edge rushers in the state and making him a run and hit outside backer. Oops.

It's the reason I had zero real aspirations for this kid. What he did best was rush the passer. He's not big enough to do that at this level. So we moved him UP a level and tried to make him a backer. Dumb. Truthfully, this kid's best route would have been go somewhere in the G5 and just be an edge rusher. He could have thrived at somewhere like Marshall or App State being a pure edge rusher. He doesn't have the body to match his skills at this level.

Hope this post finds it's way bumped next fall when he has 14 tackles in a game, but I'd be more than surprised.
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Yep, Manny moved them BACK and not FORWARD, which makes no sense.
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
Tweener. Said it for a year before he signed here.

Again, for the zillionth time, the blueprint that Miami originated, and has since been copied for the past 30 years, is playing kids DOWN a level. You take the fast, twitchy HS Safety and put him in the box. You take the athletic HS Backer and put his hand in the dirt. You take the agile HS DE and put him at 3 technique. This really isn't difficult.

When this kid was being recruited, everyone told me not to worry, that we'd have no issues taking one of the premier edge rushers in the state and making him a run and hit outside backer. Oops.

It's the reason I had zero real aspirations for this kid. What he did best was rush the passer. He's not big enough to do that at this level. So we moved him UP a level and tried to make him a backer. Dumb. Truthfully, this kid's best route would have been go somewhere in the G5 and just be an edge rusher. He could have thrived at somewhere like Marshall or App State being a pure edge rusher. He doesn't have the body to match his skills at this level.

Hope this post finds it's way bumped next fall when he has 14 tackles in a game, but I'd be more than surprised.
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You saying he should be a DE ?
 
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BS85 said:
Yep, Manny moved them BACK and not FORWARD, which makes no sense.
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Brooks is the one I could see an exception for. Dude was FAST, had great change of direction, and was a stud in HS. Yes they primarily had him rushing the passer but he never or rarely, had his hand in the dirt. Was a stand up rush OB in basically a 3-4. Injuries in HS hit him hard and he lost a step. The in college, injury bug got him again and his body never really developed enough to be a DE IMO. I still think he is better than what we have been trotting out there.

People forget he was like 6'1 and 195lbs coming out of HS, no DE is that size, his only hope was to add 20-30lbs and be a LB. He was ranked a mid- to low 3* in the 700's of overall players. People fell in love with his early tape in HS but he never took that next step as a HS Senior and likewise here. I am interested with the right coaching how he would have turned out
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Tweener. Said it for a year before he signed here.

Again, for the zillionth time, the blueprint that Miami originated, and has since been copied for the past 30 years, is playing kids DOWN a level. You take the fast, twitchy HS Safety and put him in the box. You take the athletic HS Backer and put his hand in the dirt. You take the agile HS DE and put him at 3 technique. This really isn't difficult.

When this kid was being recruited, everyone told me not to worry, that we'd have no issues taking one of the premier edge rushers in the state and making him a run and hit outside backer. Oops.

It's the reason I had zero real aspirations for this kid. What he did best was rush the passer. He's not big enough to do that at this level. So we moved him UP a level and tried to make him a backer. Dumb. Truthfully, this kid's best route would have been go somewhere in the G5 and just be an edge rusher. He could have thrived at somewhere like Marshall or App State being a pure edge rusher. He doesn't have the body to match his skills at this level.

Hope this post finds it's way bumped next fall when he has 14 tackles in a game, but I'd be more than surprised.
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you are not wrong.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Tweener. Said it for a year before he signed here.

Again, for the zillionth time, the blueprint that Miami originated, and has since been copied for the past 30 years, is playing kids DOWN a level. You take the fast, twitchy HS Safety and put him in the box. You take the athletic HS Backer and put his hand in the dirt. You take the agile HS DE and put him at 3 technique. This really isn't difficult.

When this kid was being recruited, everyone told me not to worry, that we'd have no issues taking one of the premier edge rushers in the state and making him a run and hit outside backer. Oops.

It's the reason I had zero real aspirations for this kid. What he did best was rush the passer. He's not big enough to do that at this level. So we moved him UP a level and tried to make him a backer. Dumb. Truthfully, this kid's best route would have been go somewhere in the G5 and just be an edge rusher. He could have thrived at somewhere like Marshall or App State being a pure edge rusher. He doesn't have the body to match his skills at this level.

Hope this post finds it's way bumped next fall when he has 14 tackles in a game, but I'd be more than surprised.
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Yeah I hear you but does that really work anymore? That could have worked back in the day where you had 190-210 pound kids in HS who were DEs and had 2-3 years to put on muscle/weight and maybe get to a 240-250 pound DE. But these days you have kids out of HS who are already 250 pound beasts at DE. The days of waiting around and hoping that a 200 pound kid develops into a DE monster are mostly gone. You run the risk of getting outmatched against physical AND fast teams. Now, should you abandon that philosophy? Of course not, but I don't know that it should be your MAIN philosophy.
 
Cribby said:
I was told he was leaving but his dad came out recently and said he was staying. Maybe manny being gone changed some minds. Him and Tac were two guys I had my eye on.
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How should new staff best utilize their skill sets?
 
When healthy this kid has certainly looked the part at LB. I am curious what the LB room looks like with competent coaching. I hope TAC stays now that Patke is 99.9% assuredly GONE
 
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So ya'll are saying Brooks is Tyriq McCord part 2? Dominant high school player who was a stand up rusher converted to LB but never could carry the weight required. Good kid though.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Tweener. Said it for a year before he signed here.

Again, for the zillionth time, the blueprint that Miami originated, and has since been copied for the past 30 years, is playing kids DOWN a level. You take the fast, twitchy HS Safety and put him in the box. You take the athletic HS Backer and put his hand in the dirt. You take the agile HS DE and put him at 3 technique. This really isn't difficult.

When this kid was being recruited, everyone told me not to worry, that we'd have no issues taking one of the premier edge rushers in the state and making him a run and hit outside backer. Oops.

It's the reason I had zero real aspirations for this kid. What he did best was rush the passer. He's not big enough to do that at this level. So we moved him UP a level and tried to make him a backer. Dumb. Truthfully, this kid's best route would have been go somewhere in the G5 and just be an edge rusher. He could have thrived at somewhere like Marshall or App State being a pure edge rusher. He doesn't have the body to match his skills at this level.

Hope this post finds it's way bumped next fall when he has 14 tackles in a game, but I'd be more than surprised.
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Good post.
 
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