re: Patrick Johnson

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Which means he had a whole fricking year to learn what his assignment is supposed to be and not panic in coverage before he even got on the field

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who was the last redshirt freshman CB to come in and play like he knew what he was doing? Most redshirt freshmen corners never see the field.

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He wasn't impressive at all last year, physically or mentally

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Not really, but since almost no redshirt freshmen corners are, that's not a very good predictor of future unsuccess.

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I hope he improves, but blindly wishing so doesn't mean it will happen.

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I'm not saying he will improve. He might wind up sucking his whole career. But he's certainly not destined to that based on a handful of plays where he was thrown into the fire as a redshirt freshman. And remember, he was a QB in high school. He has not played just a whole lot of corner in games.