re: Jamaal Adams is the best LSU defensive player I ever witnessed

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I don't understand why Adams gets this type of praise

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I think Adams is a little overrated, but I get it. He - and Grant Delpit is almost identical in this respect - is the best safety we’ve ever had at coming up and making the tackle. Laron Landry hit harder, and that’s worth a lot, but Adams, and Delpit, are the best in LSU history at putting the stop to a ballcarrier.

Where Adams was just average was in pass protection. His lack of turnovers makes me downrate him some. Also, and maybe unfair, he had the chance to secure the win against Bama in 2014. LSU was leading. Bama needed a last minute hurry-up drive to tie it. LSU played Prevent. Bama started with a crossing pattern to a WR running from the offense’s left to right. Adams was stationed between the WR and the sideline with one job - don’t let him get out of bounds. If Adams does that job LSU wins. Even if the Bama receiver turned upfield for a first down there wasn’t enough time and downs to complete that drive. The WR faked upfield, Adams abandoned his position, the receiver got to the sidelines and the clock stopped.

Perhaps unfair to weigh that so heavily, because he was a freshman, and it was one instance, but I can’t help it. I give Jalen Mills a pass for being a freshman two years earlier when he let Yeldon score, but that’s because no one is calling him GOAT.

Exactly. There’s a reason his number is up at the stadium.

Jamal Adams is a better Pro than he was a College player. You obviously didn’t see Matthieu or Peterson play a lick.

If only TM7 plays 3 years

Chad Jones and Tyrann Matthieu were both HUGE playmakers on defense, and Delpit seems to be right on target to join those two guys.

Mathieu and it's not even close.

1) Thomas Dunson
2) Adam McConathy
3)Brad West
4) Jack Hunt
5) Claude Wrotten

TM7 was the best player ever at LSU dude was unreal to watch

Anyone who says a DB like Adams is better than Honey Badger obviously never watched both play. TM7 would just take whatever he wanted when he wanted. He was like a LB playing CB and a small CB at that. Anytime you needed a clutch play he always seemed to take the ball away. Do you remember his freshman year when they were playing TAMU and he lined up and hit a 260lb TE? He made that guy look like his bitch and just took the ball from him in the middle of the tackle. Not to mention he flattened that dude out.

Adams was a hell of a player but it's not even a comparison about who the better DB was. Patrick Peterson was better than Adams too simply because he was such a dominant force teams just completely avoided him. Adams is a S so he could find action in areas like the run game. Patrick Peterson would go to sleep at CB and when teams attempted to attack him he made these effortless domination coverage over the WRs. He was the smoothest athlete I've ever seen at LSU football. You could tell his athleticism was on another level. TM7 was a better football player and nasty.