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First off college freshman production is never the deciding factor on someone’s alltime career and has nothing to do with skill set which is what I replied to. Is Leonard Fournette better than Barry Sanders because his stats were better in one category as a freshman in college? The premise is absurd. And FYI Sanders was a great freshman player who scored multiple TDs that season. You’re comparing a freshman college player to the best corner who ever lived lol and what’s funny is there’s not a single hesitation in your analysis. Stingley is a great college player Deion is an alltime NFL great stop the foolishness it isn’t fair to our guy. Deion was a 2x All-American and Thorpe winner, Stingley isn’t even at that point yet.

Sting may never come close to having the numbers to be the greatest because of what he showed as a KID playing corner in the SEC WEST.

I will not be surprised if teams stay away from his side of the field a vast percentage of the time for the next 2 seasons.

Sanders relied heavily on his speed to make plays, Sting is very fast but plays IMO with more Technique as a teenager than Sanders did as a full-grown man in the NFL.

Because of this, I think Sting has the ability to be a much better DB than Sanders.

Sanders was always the best athlete on the field and he knew it, but I believe that hurt him from reaching the potential that he could have had.

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Posted by Madking

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Posted on 3/27/20 at 6:06 pm to cj2002

“Sanders relied heavily on his speed to make plays, Sting is very fast but plays IMO with more Technique as a teenager than Sanders did as a full-grown man in the NFL.”

You must’ve never seen Deion Sanders play corner. There isn’t a scout or coach alive who would agree that Derek Stingley played with better technique last season than Deion in the NFL. Stingley went through a slump mid season where he was getting beat, you think college WRs would’ve done that to Deion as a Pro? Then you preface that by saying you think “teams will avoid Stingley” so you use a made up analysis coupled with basically a dream scenario and use that as your position. Let’s keep this thing focused on what is and fact ok? Do you know why people threw at Deion? He let guys open, he’d bait QBs into throwing at him so he could pick them lol. Seriously we’re in lockdown, go pop in the tape you’ll enjoy it.

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Posted by Hot Carl

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Posted on 3/28/20 at 7:40 am to cj2002

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Sting may never come close to having the numbers to be the greatest because of what he showed as a KID playing corner in the SEC WEST.

I will not be surprised if teams stay away from his side of the field a vast percentage of the time for the next 2 seasons.

True, and I’d imagine if QBs start totally ignoring him, Pelini is gonna send him on some corner blitzes. He may be more disruptive behind the LOS than downfield this year. But I do think he’s good enough to bait some more confident QBs into making some mistakes, so I do think he’ll have a few picks, but I can’t imagine he’ll have as many as last year.

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Because of this, I think Sting has the ability to be a much better DB than Sanders.

Sanders was always the best athlete on the field and he knew it, but I believe that hurt him from reaching the potential that he could have had.