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Interesting how some teams have good players at certain positions with any player. Player signs a big contract with another team and suddenly they are exposed. If I ran an NFL team there would be no price tag too high for coaching. It is the way you win games.

 

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Interesting how some teams have good players at certain positions with any player. Player signs a big contract with another team and suddenly they are exposed. If I ran an NFL team there would be no price tag too high for coaching. It is the way you win games.

 

This. And there's no salary cap on coaching.

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"Anyone who listens to the Grantland NFL Podcast knows that Borland is an American hero, but this guy is seriously playing out of his mind right now. Tackles can be misleading, but Borland ranks 48th in the league with 57 for the season. The insane part: He’s played only 258 snaps. The closest player ahead of him on the list is Nigel Bradham, who has six more tackles on 181 more snaps. It’s not as if Borland’s racking up tackles seven yards past the line of scrimmage, either. According to Pro Football Focus, he’s getting a run stop on 19.8 percent of his snaps. No one else in football is even at 15 percent. The guy can play."

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"Anyone who listens to the Grantland NFL Podcast knows that Borland is an American hero, but this guy is seriously playing out of his mind right now. Tackles can be misleading, but Borland ranks 48th in the league with 57 for the season. The insane part: He’s played only 258 snaps. The closest player ahead of him on the list is Nigel Bradham, who has six more tackles on 181 more snaps. It’s not as if Borland’s racking up tackles seven yards past the line of scrimmage, either. According to Pro Football Focus, he’s getting a run stop on 19.8 percent of his snaps. No one else in football is even at 15 percent. The guy can play."

 

In the Giants defense... we DO have JaQuain Williams, who forced that fumble four years ago.

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Isn't there some kind of law against a team having too many good linebackers?

 

According to the Reese apologists, linebacker is a position with declining value.

 

Would much rather get an Offensive Lineman like Brewer, or a Tight End like Robinson, in the mid rounds.

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And there's no law against competent player development and coaching either.

 

Borland was a great football player in college.....the chances of him retaining the intelligence and instincts and learning the pro game was pretty good.

 

 

 

Earned first-team All-Big Ten honors for the third straight season and was named the conference's Defensive Player of the Year in '13 when he led the Badgers in tackles -- amassed 112-8.5-4 with two pass breakups and two forced fumbles in 12 starts at MLB. Strained his right hamstring against Illinois and sat out against Iowa. His 15 career forced fumbles are second-most in FBS history. Started 45 career games.

 

 

The book on him was smart, instinctive, and very competitive, but with maybe a limited athletic ceiling..

 

 

 

http://www.nfl.com/draft/2014/profiles/chris%20-borland?id=2543772

 

Analysis Strengths Is built low to the ground and bends his knees. Keen eyes and instincts -- has a nose for the ball. Quick to fill downhill (see goal-line play vs. Ohio State when he stuck RB Carlos Hyde in the hole and drove him back). Motor runs hot -- pursues hard and seldom quits on plays. Flows well laterally. Aware in zone. Capable of bringing pressure as a blitzer. Good leaping ability. Intense competitor who loves to play and it shows. Defensive playmaker -- piled up 50 career TFL and 14 FFs. Special intangibles. Weaknesses Is short with Tyrannosaurus rex arms -- too easily neutralized (struggles to disengage). Eclipsed by larger offensive linemen. Can do a better job protecting his legs. Average explosion, tackle strength and pop on contact. Lets runners escape his grasp. Exposed in space. Has man-coverage limitations, especially against tight ends (lacks length to match up). Durability could be an issue. Draft Projection Rounds 4-5 Bottom Line Short, active, athletic, instinctive tackling machine who will have to overcome physical limitations to establish himself as a dependable, long-term starter, though he has immediate special-teams ability and the makeup to push for a more prominent role.

 

 

Well, we saw his "nose for the ball" attributes last week.

 

Contrast that to the guys that Reese loves... guys with physical attributes but limited college production......we are seeing these guys continuing to have limited production at the pro level.

 

And I'm sure next season, they will have some relentless NCAA linebackers available, but Reese will fall in love with some guy who never put his physical talent to use in college.......as if Coughlin (or whomever the Giants have coaching next year) has all fucking day to teach guys.

 

I think it was Parcells who said it (paraphrasing)...."What makes you think a kid who didn't play at a high level in college will suddenly play at a higher level against pro competition?" That's been Reese's calling card for years, and more often than not, it's backfired.

 

A perfect example was in 2011...... Blackburn is out there teaching math, because Reese was too damn stubborn to realize that a fast guy with shit for brains isn't better than a guy like Blackburn, who despite his physical limits knew how to play football. Reese waited until the fucking season was hanging by a thread to make the call and get him back.

 

And then, in 2013, he lets Blackburn walk over chump change.

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Contrast that to the guys that Reese loves... guys with physical attributes but limited college production......we are seeing these guys continuing to have limited production at the pro level.

 

 

To be fair, Reese did change his tune this offseason. Everyone expected Beckham and Richburg to be good, but it looks like we might get something out of Kennard and Williams eventually too. I haven't seen enough of the other guys to make a decision, but out of college the scouting reports on most of them were "smart."

 

I'd argue its "too little, too late," but I guess we'll see at the end of the season.

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To be fair, Reese did change his tune this offseason. Everyone expected Beckham and Richburg to be good, but it looks like we might get something out of Kennard and Williams eventually too. I haven't seen enough of the other guys to make a decision, but out of college the scouting reports on most of them were "smart."

 

I'd argue its "too little, too late," but I guess we'll see at the end of the season.

 

That's a fair point.

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"Anyone who listens to the Grantland NFL Podcast knows that Borland is an American hero, but this guy is seriously playing out of his mind right now. Tackles can be misleading, but Borland ranks 48th in the league with 57 for the season. The insane part: He’s played only 258 snaps. The closest player ahead of him on the list is Nigel Bradham, who has six more tackles on 181 more snaps. It’s not as if Borland’s racking up tackles seven yards past the line of scrimmage, either. According to Pro Football Focus, he’s getting a run stop on 19.8 percent of his snaps. No one else in football is even at 15 percent. The guy can play."

His weakness is in pass coverage. He's fairly slow. The 49ers system accents his strengths.

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