Darrell Daniels
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Uh where have you been? We've been talking about a switch to defense since he stepped on campus. Sark is the ignant fuck who put him on offense and didn't redshirt him. He could be an all pac12 olb, and it's a tragedy he didn't get a RS year to learn the position.HFNY said:Remember his hit on the kickoff that was flagged because it was so huge the ref threw it out of sympathy (or incompetence)?
Here is DD at work from the Safety spot in high school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8m-NTfV6EA
Depending on what happens with Stringfellow, does anyone else see Darrell Daniels making his money in the NFL as a Kam Chancellor -like player? The knock on Daniels is that he isn't a natural WR and he could see the field faster as an SS (with Budda or Kevin King as FS).
We are still pretty deep at TE with RS-SR Hartvigson, RS-JR Perkins (also an H-back type), and RS-Frosh Ajamu with Drew Sample coming in to RS.
At WR, KW will be a SR, Marvin Hall with be an RS-JR, Mickens will be a JR, Ross will be a Soph, Stringfellow will be a soph, and Pettis will be a true frosh. Is 6 scholarship WRs too few?
At SS, Parker is gone and we don't have a specimen close to Daniels at safety. I can see BB and guys like Kevin King and Trevor Walker competing for the FS and the guys who don't get it being the top back-ups...plus Daniels competing for SS with King or Walker would mean we could RS all of the 2014 recruits who will be at safety.
Imagine a base D of this:
WDE: Kikaha (6'2 or 6'3", ~ 260 lbs)
NT: Shelton (6'1" ~ 320 lbs)
DT: E. Hudson (6'5" ~ 285 lbs)
Rush: Littleton (6'3", should be about 240-245 lbs by the fall)
LB: Timu (6'1" ~ 235)
LB: Feeney (6'4" ~ 230 lbs)
Rover: Shaq (6'2" ~ 230 lbs)
SS: Daniels (6'4" ~ 235 lbs)
FS: Baker at 5'8" or 5'9" and similar to Earl Thomas (or Kevin King at 6'3" and about 200 lbs?)
CB: Peters at 5'11" 185 lbs
CB: Probably RS-Frosh Jermaine Kelly at 6'2" and ~ 185 lbs (Enewally and Hale as the top back-ups?)
Compared to last year's D, it would be Feeney replacing the departed Fuiamaono, 6'4" 234 lbs (measurements very similar to Chancellor) Darrel Daniels replacing the departed Sean Parker, Army All-American Budda Baker replacing Shamburger (or Kevin King), and RS-Frosh and former 4 star Jermaine Kelly. -
I wouldn't mind seeing Shirley move to strongside LB, Feeney on the weak side, and Shaq going back to strong safety playing close to the LOS in the box kinda like Chancellor. It all really depends on what they see out of Budda. If he can roam the middle and control it similar to Earl we could actually have a defense that somewhat resembles the Hawks. We have a surplus of edge rushers in Kikaha, Shirley, Littleton, Faria, etc. I think our DL could actually be a force this year if either Mathis or Qualls steps up and replaces Hudson. Kelly has size on the outside, and Peters is pretty damn lockdown.
Budda is the key to our D. Unfair responsibility to put on a true freshman but he's going to have to live up to the hype. -
I have a strong feeling, lots of players will be more productive in their true positions, as dictated by real coaches


