Devensive weaknesses

Grant has his bad games like anybody. Saw him struggle a little against Coles and I've seen him in the past blanket Coles. Things happen. I'd still take him over Branch, and maybe over Williams talentwise but certainly over reliability.

Math - Reggie Nelson?
guess where he's from? Plam Bay! Hope he doesn't get a borking hip. Decent enough size, should fill out to about 215 in the pros but isn't "small" right now, good enough range, has a playmaking ability about him I like. He's not Merriweather but he's interesting and should go first day at the least.

One guy that has a neat storyline is Tom Zbikowski of ND, a junior who I hope doesn't come out, but a bloody-nose guy who has a boxing background, is a heavy hitter on the field, and has been a very interesting punt returner as well. You don't often see SS prospects with this type range or return ability, but he still needs a little time to season and might need to get the speed up a little bit.

 

Man. I was hoping we'd draft Ko Simpson out of S. Carolina. The guy slipped into the 4th round and is now starting for the Bills.

 

Ko wouldn't have been bad. I certainly have no gripes about Anderson, but grabbing one of those S prospects that might've been forced to LB, I could've dealt with that, too, if we were really looking for a light LB. Simpson would've been good, though.

while we're safety-ing (ugh):
Kevin Payne of Lousisiana Monroe is the starting FS, returns punts, kicks, and had to give up playing RB because he's now also the punter. He's not the most top quality guy out there, and doesn't play for the U, obviously, but he's talented, versatile, and an interesting story. He's the type guy I'm thinking about when I suggested a while back that a DB learn to kick off (which VT uses currently, I believe).

 

Minter was better as a strong safety. We ought to move him back to that spot. McCree was overpaid by the Chargers but I would love to have him back now.

Maybe we should just start three corners and one safety. Marshall is doing pretty well.

 

translation: move Marshall to safety

 

Wasn't the idea behind drafting him to upgrade the nickel package?

 

someone needs to light under julius peppers ass. he aint doin shit this year.

 

And fire Henning. Too old, too conservative.

 

yep, we need more dan morgans on our team

 

Marshall could do very well at safety. Honestly, if we played more true "free" safety, Gamble could do allright at it, but mostly only because he's good with the ball in the air, and he'd have more weaknesses at S than Marshall.

You'd still rather have a good safety prospect, but unless that player was a first rounder, he wouldn't have the talent Marshall does. The flip side of that, of course, is you can generally get safeties in the first day that are athletic and generally have maybe one weakness. This year was an odd run on safeties.