SCRIMMAGE 2

[rok]

Enter NFL prospect Delaney (and fellow talented transfer Jhavonte Dean, unavailable to the media on Tuesday), who apparently is living up to his billing.

“Dee Delaney,’’ defensive coordinator Manny Diaz said Tuesday, “has got ball skills. Some guys, if you throw it near them, they’re going to catch it.’’

Indeed. At 6-1 and 193 pounds, Delaney isn’t just a hard-hitting, lock-down defender, he can catch. He led the FCS Citadel’s Southern Conference with six interceptions last season for 163 return yards, and is tied for second in career interceptions, with 13.

“I don’t think he takes a snap for granted,’’ starting linebacker Zach McCloud said.



Diaz likes the way his players are going after the football in practice, saying, “You can tell they’re responding to the greater emphasis we have put on [causing turnovers]. We’re getting our hands on more balls.”

One player who’s stood out so far is transfer cornerback Dee Delaney. Delaney, a fifth year senior, played last season at The Citadel. Now, he’ll compete to fill the void left by standouts Corn Elder and Adrian Colbert.

“We brought [Delaney] in with the mentality that he would compete for a starting job,” Diaz said. “Not just with him, but with Jhavonte Dean, we had to bring in some quick fix guys.”

Cornerbacks coach Mike Rumph also discussed Delaney’s progress on Tuesday.

“A pleasant surprise,” Rumph said of Delaney. “Just very strong, and physical, and athletic and, most of all, he’s almost taking control of my room already.”



As he read off the statistics from the first scrimmage of camp, Mark Richt was bemused.

“Malek Young -- two tackles and an interception,” the Hurricanes coach said with a smile and a slight shake of his head. “He seems to have an interception every time we scrimmage.”

“He’s always had those instincts and ball skills, but he knows the defense way better now. He understands where the offense is going to try and take advantage,” Hurricanes cornerbacks coach Mike Rumph said of Young earlier this week. “He does a great job of being in the right place when those situations occur. It’s kind of falling into place with him and slowing down for him now.”

I probably posted this article, douche. You're taking things out of context because you're butthurt.

 

[ajkreider]

The side of the ball that most concerns me is the offense. That they can do something against our D is a positive. D can't have regressed that much.

Maybe others can comment, but I'd think the D line isn't on full tilt for these scrimmages. They're not going to flatten a QB are they?

 

[cubin10]

[MENTION=10900]Sonny Long[/MENTION] come see these hands

sonny should do us all a favor and get together with you Rok.

You want some of this too old man?

*** u Rok.

 

[ghost2]

Dammit guys.

 

[UMAlum21]

I'm not saying they won't be a good unit this season or that they haven't looked good during camp, but through two scrimmages there hasn't been much in the way of good press or highlights for that matter. I don't know who could refute that, but it certainly doesn't mean they will stink this year.

Baseless stats for you to gush over. But yeah, no highlights or good press.

Scrimmage 1:
Young INT
Finley INT

Scrimmage 2:
Dean FF
Michael Jackson 3 TFL, 1 sack
Finley 1 sack
Jaquan 2 TFL, 1 sack

Sorry if I'm not impressed by these guys picking up sacks against the cardboard cutouts comprising our 2nd team OL.

That said, I like them as a unit and believe they'll become good. But the practice reports about Berrios, Langham, Harley are equally positive so something's gotta give. They're not there yet, is all I'm saying.

People's expectations for Delaney appear to have been met early on but many predicted big roles for Dean, Bandy, Carter immediately and those guys have never played a down. This likely isn't going to be a seamless transition back there.

The problem I have is that you have a penchant for trashing players on our team for no reason. You backtracking from calling the secondary dreadful to "This likely isn't going to be a seamless transition back there" is a perfect example.

We have a unique defensive scheme, lot of different blitz packages we work in to get our safeties and corners involved in making stops at the LOS. It's hard to scheme against creativity like that. You discrediting their stats yet using baseless stats by our offense as justification of perceived secondary issues is ridiculous as can be, but that shouldn't require much of an explanation.

It seems you're constantly looking for attention on here for some reason and you feel the best way to get it is to go to extremes to **** on players for no reason. There's a difference between having rational criticisms of certain units versus the garbage you constantly throw out.

 

[UMAlum21]

Enter NFL prospect Delaney (and fellow talented transfer Jhavonte Dean, unavailable to the media on Tuesday), who apparently is living up to his billing.

“Dee Delaney,’’ defensive coordinator Manny Diaz said Tuesday, “has got ball skills. Some guys, if you throw it near them, they’re going to catch it.’’

Indeed. At 6-1 and 193 pounds, Delaney isn’t just a hard-hitting, lock-down defender, he can catch. He led the FCS Citadel’s Southern Conference with six interceptions last season for 163 return yards, and is tied for second in career interceptions, with 13.

“I don’t think he takes a snap for granted,’’ starting linebacker Zach McCloud said.



Diaz likes the way his players are going after the football in practice, saying, “You can tell they’re responding to the greater emphasis we have put on [causing turnovers]. We’re getting our hands on more balls.”

One player who’s stood out so far is transfer cornerback Dee Delaney. Delaney, a fifth year senior, played last season at The Citadel. Now, he’ll compete to fill the void left by standouts Corn Elder and Adrian Colbert.

“We brought [Delaney] in with the mentality that he would compete for a starting job,” Diaz said. “Not just with him, but with Jhavonte Dean, we had to bring in some quick fix guys.”

Cornerbacks coach Mike Rumph also discussed Delaney’s progress on Tuesday.

“A pleasant surprise,” Rumph said of Delaney. “Just very strong, and physical, and athletic and, most of all, he’s almost taking control of my room already.”



As he read off the statistics from the first scrimmage of camp, Mark Richt was bemused.

“Malek Young -- two tackles and an interception,” the Hurricanes coach said with a smile and a slight shake of his head. “He seems to have an interception every time we scrimmage.”

“He’s always had those instincts and ball skills, but he knows the defense way better now. He understands where the offense is going to try and take advantage,” Hurricanes cornerbacks coach Mike Rumph said of Young earlier this week. “He does a great job of being in the right place when those situations occur. It’s kind of falling into place with him and slowing down for him now.”

I probably posted this article, douche. You're taking things out of context because you're butthurt.

It's actually clippings from multiple articles throughout fall camp.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Evan is only accurate on passes under 10 yards.

Then explain how he managed to average 17.5 yards per attempt, and please tell me it's because he's hitting his man in stride so they can run after the catch.

It fits the narrative. He also is less mobile than Kaaya.

I picked up on the sarcasm even if nobody else did.

 

[rok]

pimp, I haven't had anything negative to say about the secondary all camp. And I'm well aware that they blitz a lot but Joe Jax having 5 sacks makes me question the difficulty they encountered when doing so.

The only players I remember getting on have been Irvin, Gray, Pinckney, even Linda. And I haven't been alone in expressing some dissatisfaction about perceived weaknesses of theirs, albeit perhaps unfairly at times. Other upperclassmen like Rosier and Langham appear to be proving me wrong, which is great.

And I've already admitted being wrong about the starting OL several times.

If the secondary is top ranked from weeks 1-12 I'll admit I was wrong about that too, but right now I think it's fair to have some trepidation considering the youth/lack of experience.

 

[UMAlum21]

pimp, I haven't had anything negative to say about the secondary all camp. And I'm well aware that they blitz a lot but Joe Jax having 5 sacks makes me question the difficulty they encountered when doing so.

The only players I remember getting on have been Irvin, Gray, Pinckney, even Linda. And I haven't been alone in expressing some dissatisfaction about perceived weaknesses of theirs, albeit perhaps unfairly at times. Other upperclassmen like Rosier and Langham appear to be proving me wrong, which is great.

And I've already admitted being wrong about the starting OL several times.

If the secondary is top ranked from weeks 1-12 I'll admit I was wrong about that too, but right now I think it's fair to have some trepidation considering the youth/lack of experience.

I agree on the aspect of being cautious especially given we lost 3 starters, but big difference between that and calling them dreadful without seeing a live snap of them. Talent wise they can be better than last year. Might take some time to manifest as guys grow into their roles.

 

[ThomasM]

I'm not saying they won't be a good unit this season or that they haven't looked good during camp, but through two scrimmages there hasn't been much in the way of good press or highlights for that matter. I don't know who could refute that, but it certainly doesn't mean they will stink this year, but it could take some time and they probably won't be as good as some here are expecting imo.

Hot takes based on 2 min highlight videos. Only Rok.

And glowing stats from the offense, and nothing but praise for Langham, Berrios, Harley after every single practice but let's ignore that.

I kind of agree with you. Either the upperclassmen QBs are really improving, or our secondary is struggling. However, when you put all the first team D pieces together, I think they will be fine.

It's sounding more and more like the upperclassmen QBs aren't as bad as people like canespimp promised they'd be. He saw them play in a scrimmage during the spring and knows everything now apparently so look out.

They simply can't be as bad as people had feared. Well, I wonder if they feared they were that bad, or hoped they would be. Hard to tell with so many of our so called fans.

 

[deleted7012]

Everybody and their mother crowned Perry the heir apparent at the end of Spring... Malik and Evan used this as extra motivation to grow and expand their games over the summer. Nothing like competition to get you focused and give you the energy to go that extra, difference-making mile.

 

[DaCanes386]

Say what yall want to say about Malik. But if he starts to slip up, N'kosi may be put in soon or later.

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Remember them numbers: 3+4+5= 12 the number of our starting QB. Sick run though!

 

[ThomasM]

Say what yall want to say about Malik. But if he starts to slip up, N'kosi may be put in soon or later.

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Remember them numbers: 3+4+5= 12 the number of our starting QB. Sick run though!

Perry is the future, but imagine for a second how much better he will get with time. I just don't want to rush him. In time he will earn the job, and the entire team will be better because of it. OR if someone plays well enough to let him sit. The future is bright.

 

[ajkreider]

If Malik slips up, Sherriffs goes in. Unless we're 3-5 or something

 

[DaCanes386]

Maybe the light goes on for Perry when someone other than him is named the starter. [MENTION=10044]UknowWhat[/MENTION] said something similar to this the other day and IMO he'll play mop up duty this year. If that light shines bright in practice and in this duty, then I'll bet you'll see him play significantly throughout the year. But, barring injuries, he probably won't get significant PT.

 

[StoneWallLoungeCane]

LMFAO at "james coley has as good a track record as an QB coach in the country."

Ponder, Manuel and Kaaya is a pretty f'ing good track record.

Wow, Coley surreptitiously coached the QBs while the TE coach at FSU? Interesting!

Coley wasn't the QB coach at FSU. He was TE coach and then OC even though Jimbo was calling the plays. It's like giving credit to Thomas Brown for Kaaya's best year.