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re: shea dixon of on3 provided an update on DJ Pickett
Posted on 1/18/25 at 9:25 am to ipodking
Posted on 1/18/25 at 9:25 am to ipodking
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The secondary is still a huge question mark for 2025
It's a question mark insofar as they haven't done anything on the field together yet.
However, this is the first offseason since Kelly's arrival that the DB room is loaded with talent, and so the question kind of coalesce down to who is playing where and how best to use the obvious talent we have, not do we have talent. Big difference.
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Posted on 1/18/25 at 9:28 am to ZenFNmaster
We actually have options this year
Posted on 1/18/25 at 12:04 pm to Lester Earl
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with that said, do you think cd1401 has come close to watching every snap of Mansoor Delane to have a better opinion of him vs some random PFF grader?
lol exactly
Posted on 1/18/25 at 1:27 pm to ZenFNmaster
My hope is the new players are more reliable tacklers and more aggressive coming up against the run. Sage was fine in coverage but you never saw him flying up and blowing up a run or screen play. Gilbert is a limited player to begin with and he was playing with 1 arm.
Watch a team like Georgia with how their safeties come flying up, it’s like they’re playing a different sport with the level of physicality.
Ideally Spears would play FS and would be the deep guy when they go single high. Let Cooley play closer to the LOS. If Delaney is playing nickel then I assume we aren’t playing a Star and Perk is playing the other LB spot with Whit. Keys would be on the bench. They can’t play all these guys at the same time so that part will be interesting to see develop.
I think by the 2nd half of next year the D should be noticeably improved. The issue is playing on the road against a really good offense with a lot of continuity the first game of the season. Baker has his work cut out getting that many new players in the secondary to play fast, assignment correct D right out the gate. I’m expecting some bumps with a combination of transfers and inexperienced guys.
Watch a team like Georgia with how their safeties come flying up, it’s like they’re playing a different sport with the level of physicality.
Ideally Spears would play FS and would be the deep guy when they go single high. Let Cooley play closer to the LOS. If Delaney is playing nickel then I assume we aren’t playing a Star and Perk is playing the other LB spot with Whit. Keys would be on the bench. They can’t play all these guys at the same time so that part will be interesting to see develop.
I think by the 2nd half of next year the D should be noticeably improved. The issue is playing on the road against a really good offense with a lot of continuity the first game of the season. Baker has his work cut out getting that many new players in the secondary to play fast, assignment correct D right out the gate. I’m expecting some bumps with a combination of transfers and inexperienced guys.
Posted on 1/18/25 at 2:11 pm to lob1284
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Ideally Spears would play FS and would be the deep guy when they go single high
We really need spears to take the next step. On paper he’s the prefect rangy deep center fielder type safety.If he can become more physical against the run I think he seizes the 2nd safety spot
Posted on 1/18/25 at 3:40 pm to Cd104
I’m high on Spears. He’s the pure safety that everyone wants. The fact he was so close to breaking into the starting lineup as a true freshman is promising. He was rotating in the first few games before they decided to stick with the older players.
Posted on 1/18/25 at 3:45 pm to lob1284
Don't forget about Toviano too. He's no slouch.
Posted on 1/18/25 at 3:48 pm to lob1284
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I’m high on Spears. He’s the pure safety that everyone wants. The fact he was so close to breaking into the starting lineup as a true freshman is promising. He was rotating in the first few games before they decided to stick with the older players.
The sky is the limit for the kid for sure. Not many safeties start as freshman in the SEC. Even grant Delpit despite playing a lot as a freshman needed a year to get comfortable. He has all the athletic tools to be a stud center fielder safety. I think another offseason getting stronger and comfortable will do wonders.
Posted on 1/18/25 at 3:48 pm to reddingoo
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by reddingooDon't forget about Toviano too. He's no slouch.
The cup is truly not bare at safety theirs kids with high ceilings in the room like toviano and spears.
Posted on 1/18/25 at 4:02 pm to Geauxld Finger
He had a Lis Franc dipshit.
Posted on 1/18/25 at 5:31 pm to reddingoo
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Don't forget about Toviano too. He's no slouch.
He’s no beast either
Posted on 1/18/25 at 5:37 pm to burreauxxx
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Question becomes whose starting on the other side
personally, I think it's Stamps... at least to start the season... I think it'll look like this:
CB Pickett
CB Stamps
Nickel Jackson
FS Delane
SS Cooley
unless Dashawn really improves and bulks up, I think he still a back up
Posted on 1/18/25 at 5:57 pm to lob1284
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If Delaney is playing nickel then I assume we aren’t playing a Star and Perk is playing the other LB spot with Whit. Keys would be on the bench. They can’t play all these guys at the same time so that part will be interesting to see develop.
I don’t really understand why everyone is assuming Perkins goes back to LB when he was playing at star most recently before his injury. Did Kelly/Baker make a comment about it or something?
Posted on 1/18/25 at 7:06 pm to chRxis
Jackson is not a nickel. More likely Cooley plays nickel.
Posted on 1/18/25 at 7:11 pm to FriscoTiger
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Jackson is not a nickel. More likely Cooley plays nickel.
Jackson is a versatile db. He’s capable of playing basically anywhere in the backend
Posted on 1/18/25 at 11:28 pm to Cd104
Who's down voting this?
Posted on 1/19/25 at 10:38 am to tigersaint24
Seems to me Stamps would have to improve significantly to play. Im not saying that can’t happen but he was consistently beaten all season.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 11:02 am to ulmtiger
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Seems to me Stamps would have to improve significantly to play.
I could see him leaving after the spring
It’s pretty clear he’s not good enough and likely doesn’t have developable skills to ever be good enough at this level
He’s part of the biggest flaw BK made and why it’s taking longer to have the success we all want.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 11:15 am to lob1284
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My hope is the new players are more reliable tacklers and more aggressive coming up against the run. Sage was fine in coverage but you never saw him flying up and blowing up a run or screen play. Gilbert is a limited player to begin with and he was playing with 1 arm.
This is why I wanted byard. He would fly up. Surprised they passed on him.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 2:13 pm to SulphursFinest
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We really had people on here trying to claim he faked having surgery
Stingley didn’t quit. That was Ricks, before hitting the portal. I think many conflated the two, even though they were completely different situations.
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