Class Acts?
How desperate am I for football? Instead of watching the first hour of game seven of the NBA finals, I tuned into "Meet the Draft Picks" on Comcast Sportsnet last Thursday instead, deciding to stick around especially after I saw my man R. Diddy on the show. A mix of analysis and human interest stories, the show didn't provide a lot of new insights--though it was sponsored by the Philadelphia Barrage, our outdoor lacrosse team (Who knew we had both indoor and outdoor lacrosse teams? I didn't.)--but I did learn the following things:
1) David Bergeron can ride a unicycle. That could come in handy, since the 7th-round linebacker from Stanford is a long shot to make the team and might need an alternative career.
2) Reggie Brown can bench press 400 lbs. In other words, no 5-foot 9-inch Carolina cornerback will be able to jam him at the line and toss him around like a rag doll.
3) Sean Considine was the highest-scoring safety prospect on the Wonderlic test, the NFL's official "intelligence" test for draft picks.
4) Our other seventh rounder, Keyonta Marshall, says his first name is pronounced like "Chianti." I have no idea why that is.
5) Before introducing Brown, they threw up a list of Andy Reid's previous picks at wide receiver. Let's just say that if Todd Pinkston was hands-down the best pick, then it wasn't that much of a list.
Finally, and maybe I'm a little slow on this, but watching the segment on Ryan Moats made me think, "Hey, they can do formations this season with both Moats and Brian Westbrook on the field." Imagine each in the slot, or maybe Westbrook in the slot and Moats in the backfield (or vice versa) with the defense spread out and suspectible to his quickness if the Birds run the ball. Or Westbrook in the slot, Moats in the backfield (again, or vice versa), and Moats then goes in motion and lines up in the other slot position. Can you say multiple mismatches? In the past Reid has had two quarterbacks in on the same play (for that stupid send-McNabb-in-motion-and-let-Detmer-throw-the-ball stunt that has never worked), so don't think you won't be seeing Moats-and-Westbrook formations come September.
1) David Bergeron can ride a unicycle. That could come in handy, since the 7th-round linebacker from Stanford is a long shot to make the team and might need an alternative career.
2) Reggie Brown can bench press 400 lbs. In other words, no 5-foot 9-inch Carolina cornerback will be able to jam him at the line and toss him around like a rag doll.
3) Sean Considine was the highest-scoring safety prospect on the Wonderlic test, the NFL's official "intelligence" test for draft picks.
4) Our other seventh rounder, Keyonta Marshall, says his first name is pronounced like "Chianti." I have no idea why that is.
5) Before introducing Brown, they threw up a list of Andy Reid's previous picks at wide receiver. Let's just say that if Todd Pinkston was hands-down the best pick, then it wasn't that much of a list.
Finally, and maybe I'm a little slow on this, but watching the segment on Ryan Moats made me think, "Hey, they can do formations this season with both Moats and Brian Westbrook on the field." Imagine each in the slot, or maybe Westbrook in the slot and Moats in the backfield (or vice versa) with the defense spread out and suspectible to his quickness if the Birds run the ball. Or Westbrook in the slot, Moats in the backfield (again, or vice versa), and Moats then goes in motion and lines up in the other slot position. Can you say multiple mismatches? In the past Reid has had two quarterbacks in on the same play (for that stupid send-McNabb-in-motion-and-let-Detmer-throw-the-ball stunt that has never worked), so don't think you won't be seeing Moats-and-Westbrook formations come September.
posted by SP @ 7:27 PM
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