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Daniel Jeremiah on the toughest postion to scout
DerekJohnson
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"The toughest for me to evaluate is safety. because the spread offense has made it darn near impossible. You can watch 5 games and all you see is bubble screen right, bubble screen left. You don't get a chance to see a safety read a route combination, range off the hash, make NFL type movements, reactions and plays. So a lot of it is guesswork. It takes a lot more film study for me than any other position than any other to sort out.
"And this is not a good safety draft. I have one safety in my top 50 [for 2015]. This is another long discussion we can get into sometime about why there are no safeties. It's the hardest position to find. In my opinion it's the spread offenses. You recruit a 5 star athlete. JuJu Smith is a perfect example. a 5 star guy from USC. He's played safety, receiver. Well, you want to put the ball in his hands because you get a chance to score and make plays. So those guys end up at receiver. Whereas if you put him out at safety, and you go four and five wide, you can negate the effectiveness of a safety when you're just throwing bubble screens and quick hitters. So if you have a great athlete at safety, it's not a difference maker in college like it is in the NFL. So that's the reason why we're not seeing a lot of safeties coming out year after year."
- Daniel Jeremiah
From his Move the Sticks Podcast
"And this is not a good safety draft. I have one safety in my top 50 [for 2015]. This is another long discussion we can get into sometime about why there are no safeties. It's the hardest position to find. In my opinion it's the spread offenses. You recruit a 5 star athlete. JuJu Smith is a perfect example. a 5 star guy from USC. He's played safety, receiver. Well, you want to put the ball in his hands because you get a chance to score and make plays. So those guys end up at receiver. Whereas if you put him out at safety, and you go four and five wide, you can negate the effectiveness of a safety when you're just throwing bubble screens and quick hitters. So if you have a great athlete at safety, it's not a difference maker in college like it is in the NFL. So that's the reason why we're not seeing a lot of safeties coming out year after year."
- Daniel Jeremiah
From his Move the Sticks Podcast
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Move the Sticks Podcast is your source?
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It's funny that I thought this was such a fascinating comment and I was sure that it would spark a long thread. And then I come back a few hours later and all that's here is a Half Brain wisecrack.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:Move the Sticks Podcast is your source?
Maybe I should have just started a BOUNCE! thread. -
This place isn't fun any more!?DerekJohnson said:
It's funny that I thought this was such a fascinating comment and I was sure that it would spark a long thread. And then I come back a few hours later and all that's here is a Half Brain wisecrack.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:Move the Sticks Podcast is your source?
Maybe I should have just started a BOUNCE! thread. -
It's an interesting piece alright but at that time of the morning, I've only got enough creativity to make an HHB wisecrack.DerekJohnson said:
It's funny that I thought this was such a fascinating comment and I was sure that it would spark a long thread. And then I come back a few hours later and all that's here is a Half Brain wisecrack.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:Move the Sticks Podcast is your source?
Maybe I should have just started a BOUNCE! thread.
You could almost tie this in with the 7-on-7 thread on the recruiting bored as there's a lot of overlap.
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I certainly didn't mind the wisecrack, just thought there would be a long thread from the post.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
It's an interesting piece alright but at that time of the morning, I've only got enough creativity to make an HHB wisecrack.DerekJohnson said:
It's funny that I thought this was such a fascinating comment and I was sure that it would spark a long thread. And then I come back a few hours later and all that's here is a Half Brain wisecrack.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:Move the Sticks Podcast is your source?
Maybe I should have just started a BOUNCE! thread.
You could almost tie this in with the 7-on-7 thread on the recruiting bored as there's a lot of overlap. -
Derek, still waiting for your Bounce thread...
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All I know is that JuJu Smith should play safety, the guy is a freak.
This time of year is like a dead period. We need spring ball to start but we have to wait til late March! ARRRRGH -
Until college football is serious about giving defenses a fair opportunity to play defense by taking away unfair offensive practices (ie OL blocking 5+ yards down the field before the pass is caught) you will continue to find teams putting their best players on offense
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New motto for our HHB shirt:DerekJohnson said:
It's funny that I thought this was such a fascinating comment and I was sure that it would spark a long thread. And then I come back a few hours later and all that's here is a Half Brain wisecrack.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:Move the Sticks Podcast is your source?
Maybe I should have just started a BOUNCE! thread.
Hardcore Husky. Cracking wise since 2012.
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Why do bubble screens negate an athletic safety? From what I saw last year, having a guy like Budda read react and fly to the ball at the LOS instead of waiting for the Receiver to shake and bake at the second level was crucial to blowing those types of plays up.
If we had, say, a tripper johnson back there it would have been a bubble screen massacre.
