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I'm torn. As an Iowa fan, I'm disappointed that he was allowed to fall to the second round when the tape showed he's possibly the best CB in this draft. As a Packer fan, I think they were able to get a first round talent out of a mid-second pick, for a secondary that needs help badly.
EstronHawkKing
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I hate the Packers!
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HawkGold
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He is not lock down. He is creative. This is a good fit for a guy who will get a lot of picks in the vaunted sieve defense. He will do well but not a fit everwhere.
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RobHowe
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Richard Sherman isn't a "lockdown" CB but he's been a damn good one. JJ will be productive NFL player. He's a very good athlete and still has a lot of room to grow.
Adam
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The Packers took the "Man to man" CB first by taking Jaire Alexander. Jackson will shut down an entire 1/3 of the field and Green Bay has a guy in Alexander who can go match up on the other side. The Packers pass defense should take an immediate boost.
HawkGold
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They need it...
AIRHAWK
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The whole great Seahawks secondary were more muggers, grabbers, and pro wrestlers than great secondary players. They "got away with murder", to use a cliche, for 6-7 years. As a NFL watcher, not an expert, you would watch games where most secondaries would get flagged for every little grab and bump but for some reason the Seahawks and maybe a couple of other teams could do about anything except for calf rope a receiver and get away with it. A good example is when the Ravens were really winning. Peyton Manning's best Denver team got upset by the Ravens in the playoffs and the Ravens secondary was mugging his receivers, and I am not even close to being a Denver fan.
Back to JJ, the guy just seems to have instincts for knowing where the ball is, probably through great awareness, skills, intuition so barring some injuries he should be very good.
Some Dbacks can make up for that lack of .1 or .2 seconds by seeing the play before it happens.
Thank you. I've been trying to say that for a week now.
Wadley has that same talent.
I know, because I have it too, so it's easy for me to see it in others.
It's sort of what coaches are talking about when they say a player has slowed the game down. That's a generic and very basic description though.
Exactly 'the game has slowed down for a player'. The last few months I have watched some or a lot of hawk replays on YouTube and I have come to the conclusion that Wadley can see out the earhole of his helmet. I mean he makes little moves to escape guys in the wash of players that I have no idea how he knows they are there. Watch some of his runs, it is amazing.
I hope he gets drafted by a more wide open offense where he can slot or catch passes out of a shotgun. James White hit gold by being on the Patriots.
I remember, I was sitting in a pub watching the Hawks/Isu game. He did this stop on a dime juke by the goal line and every Isu fan was like "are you kidding me". I just said nope this kid is that good. I knew then. The rest is history.
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Adam
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We should have run 100+ bubble screens to Wadley over the past 2 seasons. The coaches really missed an opportunity to make Wadley an Iowa legend. He could have easily scored another 15 to 20 TD's off beating DBs in space from the screen game. I'm hoping he goes to an NFL team that understands that skill set. You would think they all do, but nope.
