A positive that occurred to me yesterday...
Shaq is nowhere near physical enough to be an NFL linebacker, still takes bad angles, and still blows gap assignments. Peters is just a good corner that won't make enough highlight reel plays to get his name at the top of any lists.
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Thompson doesn't have the straight-line speed to be a dominating NFL linebacker.
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I think he's fast enough to be an NFL linebacker, but not fast enough to be one who isn't particularly good at stuffing the run. He has Donald Butler/Mason Foster type speed but nobody is gonna compare him to those guys in any other department.
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Disagree. His closing speed is ridiculous, but we rarely get to see it. I think that he's still thinking too much and afraid to cut it loose. He played pretty well yesterday, but he's disappointing about 81% of the time.TTJ said:Thompson doesn't have the straight-line speed to be a dominating NFL linebacker.
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He changes direction very well. Elite overall athleticism. He's plenty athletic enough to play in the NFL. I agree he seems tentative at times.
You could see his lack of breakaway speed, though, on his long TD run yesterday. He had a step on the pursuing EWU defenders (whom I'm told are so athletically inferior), but they basically stayed close all the way down the field. -
I agree that he doesn't have top end breakaway speed, but that doesn't matter for a LB. It's all about fast twitch acceleration, which he has in spades.TTJ said:He changes direction very well. Elite overall athleticism. He's plenty athletic enough to play in the NFL. I agree he seems tentative at times.
You could see his lack of breakaway speed, though, on his long TD run yesterday. He had a step on the pursuing EWU defenders (whom I'm told are so athletically inferior), but they basically stayed close all the way down the field. -
He has crazy LB speed, as you saw against EWU when he closed in on Vernon Adamas in the blink of an eye and cut him down on the sideline before he could get to the edge.
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He's 230 pounds and had an easy path for a TD. I doubt he ran full speed the whole time either. I don't remember anyone coming close to him the whole run. I knew it was a TD after he broke the first down line.TTJ said:He changes direction very well. Elite overall athleticism. He's plenty athletic enough to play in the NFL. I agree he seems tentative at times.
You could see his lack of breakaway speed, though, on his long TD run yesterday. He had a step on the pursuing EWU defenders (whom I'm told are so athletically inferior), but they basically stayed close all the way down the field. -
Phil Bleenor knew it was a touchdown when Jim Owens was still coaching.RoadDawg55 said:
He's 230 pounds and had an easy path for a TD. I doubt he ran full speed the whole time either. I don't remember anyone coming close to him the whole run. I knew it was a TD after he broke the first down line.TTJ said:He changes direction very well. Elite overall athleticism. He's plenty athletic enough to play in the NFL. I agree he seems tentative at times.
You could see his lack of breakaway speed, though, on his long TD run yesterday. He had a step on the pursuing EWU defenders (whom I'm told are so athletically inferior), but they basically stayed close all the way down the field. -
How are their hips?
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So faster than Lavon Coleman?TTJ said:He changes direction very well. Elite overall athleticism. He's plenty athletic enough to play in the NFL. I agree he seems tentative at times.
You could see his lack of breakaway speed, though, on his long TD run yesterday. He had a step on the pursuing EWU defenders (whom I'm told are so athletically inferior), but they basically stayed close all the way down the field.
