Jamal Adams not like that....
He overrated
Gator freshman rb perine dragged his *** **** near 15 yards last year on a run.
Agreed. Jamal Adams is the most overrated player I saw this year. Good solid player but hardly special against the run or pass. Mediocre angles against the run, whiffed tackles, and hesitant stiff pass defense. I have no idea how he's rated so highly, other than group think and overreaction to his team leadership and character. Rob Staton of Seahawks Draft Blog is probably the guy I respect most among draft analysts right now, and not surprisingly he was the only one who agreed with me on Jamal Adams virtually word for word.
You have to make plays at safety. As a kid I saw **** Anderson and Jake Scott with the Dolphins. Then at USC we had Ronnie Lott and Dennis Smith, with the incomparable Kenny Easley across town at UCLA. Easley was the greatest college safety of all time, and it's long overdue that he finally made the NFL Hall of Fame. USC is a confident arrogant university on all levels, and not undeservedly. To demonstrate how respected Kenny Easley was, nobody in the USC program was claiming that Ronnie Lott was Easley's equal, let alone superior. And that includes Lott himself. I interviewed him in Heritage Hall the day before the 1981 draft for a draft preview column in the Daily Trojan. When I asked Lott if he thought he was Easley's equal, he turned his head and looked at me as if I were nuts.
BTW, Lott thought he was going to be picked by the St. Louis Cardinals. That might have changed NFL history just a little bit. They went with E.J. Junior instead, a linebacker from Alabama.
Dennis Smith was supposed to be a part of that Heritage Hall interview also. But on the previous Friday afternoon he threw a fit when I showed him Joel Buchsbaum's Pro Football Weekly preview book. Naturally he looked at the scouting report on himself. Buchsbaum didn't exactly rave about Smith. After a few nitpicking negatives the summary was, "I don't like him as much as Easley, Lott or Watts." Dennis Smith read that out loud several times, in disgust. Ted Watts was a safety from Texas Tech. Let's just say I wasn't surprised the following Monday when Ronnie Lott told me his roommate Dennis Smith couldn't make it. Sick. Yeah, right. But obviously Buchsbaum underrated Smith, who had a great career with Denver.
Two decades later Joel Buchsbaum wrote that Ed Reed, "makes big plays and bigger plays." Exactly. I still can't believe Reed lasted so long in that 2002 draft. And that big play sentence hardly describes Jamal Adams this year. It describes Malik Hooker.
I would prefer Solomon Thomas and Hooker above Myles Garrett. Something bothers me about Garrett although I can't pinpoint it or describe well. His workout talent is glaring but whenever I watched that team he never jumped out as the
#1 overall pick.
Mitchell Trubisky looks like the sucker choice in this draft to me. I don't trust late bloomers with high picks. Even if he fully clicks I can't imagine Trubisky being above the top 12 or 15 quarterbacks. That's not bad but it subjects the franchise to year after year of patience and Happy Adjustment, like the curse of Ryan Tannehill.
Deshaun Watson could be great but his velocity on those midrange throws simply might not be good enough, and lead to interceptions and troubles on 3rd and 10. I go back and forth on him. Too many interceptions and batted balls to dismiss.
