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The Random Thought Thread
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ravenslord
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Maybe Brady can still throw 10 yards to a tight end. Maybe not after watching him play last year.
well he's got 3 tight ends to throw to now
Ellicottraven
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Bungles bungle the first and foremost. So, what else is new?
He was the only ram who showed up that game
Might have been partly down to mekari being thrown in there and the disparity in their length (mekari has short arms and Brockers is great at using his length)
The others...
Duane Starks
Matt Elam
Jimmy Smith
1 bust in the 1st round on defence in 25 years... the only other non-pro-bowlers both had key plays in their 2 superbowl wins...
that's pretty amazing
Edgar
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Brockers was also pretty rough on Stanley and he was pretty regularly whooping TE's, including Boyle which I haven't seen too often.
the only thing that has kept Jimmy out of the pro bowl was an injury bug. He's definitely played at a pro bowl caliber during those years though
oh 100%
there were a couple of years where you could legitimately talk about him as 1 of the top 2 or 3 corners in the league
there are also frequently times when he does absolutely nothing against the pass - he will probably drop in the draft because of that i reckon
it's also worrying how little he developed after his first year - if anything potentially regressing which is not what you'd want to see
but my god there are times when he reminds me a lot of deforest buckner
the ceiling with the measurables is immense but he hasnt shown any evidence he'll get anywhere near that ceiling
id be really hesitant taking him anywhere before the 3rd round but i think he might be gone by then
Ellicottraven
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Jimmy Smith would've made multiple pro bowls had he stayed healthy...
Willbacker
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Duane Starks was also very solid. McAlister was the big name out of the two.
Ellicottraven
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McAlister was the best CB of his era I believe...
Dom McRaven
Hall of Famer
2013 comes to mind
Inqui
Pro Bowler
I'm not sure how the metrics bear this out (so someone can prove me wrong), but I've always thought of Jimmy as a shutdown corner in a fairly true sense - in that he makes his money by the QB looking elsewhere rather than making big plays himself in the way someone like Peters would. It's tough for a guy like that to get a Pro Bowl nod because the whole thing's a glorified popularity contest and he doesn't have a flashy playstyle that gets him on ESPN every other night.
I remember an article on NFL.com a while ago calling Jimmy the "burger flipper" of his draft class because he didn't get enough interceptions or some such. Of course, in that same article the "burger flipper" from another draft class was a guy who had to drop out of the league because he got cancer, so that article was full of shining takes.
