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I remember BBK playing at ILB as a frosh. Why not Daniel Heimuli?

BroadcastingDawg
BroadcastingDawg Member Posts: 1,592
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Of all of our recruits coming in I was perhaps most excited about Daniel Heimuli. His HS tape reminded me of BBK's... a little undersized but super athletic, crazy instincts, punishing hitter.

Kyler Manu is hard to watch out there.

He can't blitz. He's slow. He gets swallowed up all the time. He's bad at plugging holes. He not very athletic. He's kind of just a body in the field that at its best gets in the way?

I've heard Heimuli needs to "hit the weight room." But when you're this athletic and dish out this much punishment and our ILB is horridly weak... how do you not get a chance to play?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6mV_n0hDDk
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  • Emoterman
    Emoterman Member Posts: 3,333
    I don't care what the level of talent he was facing there, it shows he has elite athleticism and explosiveness, and that he seems to have good football IQ. It makes me hope he's a little dinged up, because the alternative is the coaches are being FS.
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  • Emoterman
    Emoterman Member Posts: 3,333
    dnc said:

    Maybe because they realize what a waste it was to play BBK as a true frosh?

    As I posted elsewhere, BBKs freshman year was better than Wellington's is shaping up to be.
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  • GreenRiverGatorz
    GreenRiverGatorz Member Posts: 10,168
    He's undersized and has already been hurt, he's nowhere near ready to see the field. Expecting anything more than four games out of him is unrealistic.
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  • BroadcastingDawg
    BroadcastingDawg Member Posts: 1,592
    dnc said:

    Maybe because they realize what a waste it was to play BBK as a true frosh?

    Eh I don't think it was. He played well as a backup. And our linebackers were straight studs when BBK was a frosh.

    This team is in a weird spot... lots of youth on D that need to grow together and I think Manu out there is a waste when Heimuli could be getting valuable time at a position where we're weak.
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  • Emoterman
    Emoterman Member Posts: 3,333
    GreenRiverGatorz said:

    He's undersized and has already been hurt, he's nowhere near ready to see the field. Expecting anything more than four games out of him is unrealistic.

    Is it known that he's been hurt? I've never read that or seen any indication of it.
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  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Emoterman said:

    dnc said:

    Maybe because they realize what a waste it was to play BBK as a true frosh?

    As I posted elsewhere, BBKs freshman year was better than Wellington's is shaping up to be.
    Wellington is fast and can be active. He just doesn’t have great instincts. He also isn’t a sure tackler like BBK. He might have got dragged a few times, but he brought guys down.
    I am eating my humble pie and missing BBK. I love how BYE went after Manu and Wellington because those idiots don’t understand what depth they need to play
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  • bigcc
    bigcc Member Posts: 900
    I'm fairly confident Calvert would have been playing by now, but I agree about heimuli... We can't get much worse at LB
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