Well these guys have nice physical tools but for one reason or another just have not worked out: -Brandon James, explosive kick returner, who did not explode for the Colts 8 returns for a 16 ypa outcome is not very good, but still, 4.3 IS 4.3 -Justin Cole: Was a solid late round pick up as a passrushing DE from SJSU, this guy is the type who can head to the CFL for a career relaunch -Sabby Piscitelli ex Penn State Safety he never really stuck in Tampa, a 07 #2 pick he is also a solid special teamer. I think I'll toss interesting names on the list as the season winds down as teams will sign guys to have them in camp in 2011.
4.3 forty is overrated. You have to know how to use your speed and most of all, you need to have short area quickness. Some are going to disagree with me based off Sundays' game but Jacoby Ford is the same way. He does not have great short area quickness.
Your opinion Alen, it's fine for me decisiviness and vision or extreme short area quckness and burst make for the best Returner types. Would James be worth a practice squad stash moving into the labor problems? TBH, Idk, I do know he was a "running back" at UF who rarely played Rb, which means his path to most anyone's roster is as a Returner. Now two Te's who I feel will be available this offseason: Jeremy Shockey, he just cannot shake the injury bug. Owen Daniels, nightmare season coming back from an ACL, he is going to miss more time with a Hammy and Joel Dressen is playing well in his place as well as having 2 young Te's in Casey and Bynum behind him, and Daniels is a FA, he is a name to keep in mind for the Dolphins.
Because I listed the two ways a returner can be good you listed one should I have just discarded the Devin Thomas way because you wrote it first? I'm curious about this.
Ah, OK. My mistake. I just think you must have good short area quickness for returning. No, what makes you think that?
Eh, I've watched returners with good long speed turn out to be good returner types, as long as they make one cut and go which was Brian Mitchell's style. Kinda the way you wrote it? For me the point was so obvious I just typed it out by wrote memory and did not think much more of it than that Alen. BTW, there is a third type of returner a Mel Gray type who treated every return as his last chance to make the team, I have never seen anyone like him since then as he was just utterly fearless.
There will be many of these types of moves as we head down to the wire, some GM's are looking ahead to 2011, some are just trying to add practice squad insurance
Well the Jest apparently added a kicker, and Lawson and Trufant are interesting as they were UFLers and Trufant was the "best" cover corner in that league, undersized but very quick, he reminded me of Ex Eagles Cb Erik McMillian. The UFL has every intention of enforcing their 150k signing fee, but a way around it is to practice squad players then call them up to the 53 man roster. And CT Qb Josh McCown is making the rounds, he was in camp in 08, and the UFL team he played for has all sorts of connections to Sparano do not be surprised if he winds up in Miami one way or another.
He was used in such a diverse manner at Missouri I am surprised he was not on our radar as he has all the tools and lined up everywhere from Wr to Half back.
This is interesting as Woods was a good fill in Lb and good ST player, the Pats are taking some chances with their ST coverage units this year. And Moore is the first UFL to NFLer since the 150k fee was lowered to 25k but why would the patriots need him?
