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Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT
• Florida WR Riley Cooper had a real hard time getting off the line versus the jam.
• It was an up and down day for Florida State CB Patrick Robinson. Early on Robinson was run over by a wideout in a drill due to poor footwork but to his credit he took some coaching and improved. Robinson also dropped an easy interception in 7-on-7’s but later came away with a pick against Tim Tebow. It appears as though Robinson does better against faster receivers than he does against big, physical pass catchers. Robinson also broke up multiple passes throughout the day.
• After looking extremely impressive at the weigh-in Florida State S Myron Rolle carried that momentum onto the field and had a very good practice. Rolle displayed excellent technique, used his hands well and did a nice job of jamming wideouts at the line. It's still early but Rolle could surprise this week.
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I wanna see what happens in full pads in a game setting though.
In passing drills Tony Pike was awful today, and this is a big platform for him to make a push for the second round. A lot of his balls were wobbly and didn't come out crisp. It got so bad Steuber called him Tony "Bad Ball" Pike.
[h2]Tim Tebow meets his worst career fears in Senior Bowl debut[/h2]
By Matt Hinton
On top of the technical issuesNFL scouts have with Tim Tebow as a prospective pro quarterback,there's also the standard next-level complaint about "the system" --specifically, among other things, that Tebow spent the entirety of hiscollege career at Florida taking snaps from the shotgun, never fromunder center, even in short-yardage situations. That seemingly minorqualm opens up an entirely new avenue of doubts about his ability toadjust to basic mechanics like footwork and turning his back to thedefense, fundamentals most quarterbacks have converted to second naturelong before they show up for NFL auditions (or, in most cases, beforethey ever set foot in an actual college game).
Florida tried to address that last year by hiring respected quarterbacks coach Scott Loeffler from the pro ranks, practicing with Tebow under centerand having him take a handful of "conventional" snaps in a few games,all with an eye to making the most celebrated college player in modernhistory a more viable prospect to the skeptics. But when he showed upMonday for the first day of heavy scrutiny at the Senior Bowl, all theold alarm bells started ringing at maximum volume -- Tebow reportedly flubbed his first snap from center, and it only got uglier from there:
Performing drills with fellow South team quarterbacks Zac Robinson ofOklahoma State and Jarrett Brown of West Virginia, Tebow fumbled theball at least twice while taking snaps under center.
Later in team drills, Tebow fell into his same old habits — holdingonto the ball too long, locking onto receivers and throwing wobblypasses.
The scouts noticed.
"He looks like the third QB out there," one NFC South talent evaluator said.
Of course, the two QBs in front of him, Robinson and Brown, also comefrom shotgun-based spread schemes that featured a steady dose ofquarterback-as-runner, and former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach -- asprominent an acolyte of the "college spread" as you can find --hilariously mocked the NFL mantrawhen his prolific protegé, Graham Harrell, met with failing grades fromthe scouts last spring. ("How could you possibly look yourself in themirror and consider yourself an NFL coach and not be able to teach aguy to run back three steps, five steps and seven steps? I can teach achild that!") Longtime coach and quarterback guru Marc Trestman, whoworked with Tebow to prepare for this week, said he didn't think Tebowlooked bad enough to hurt himself; Miami Dolphinscoach Tony Sparano, overseeing the South roster, said Tebow improvedover the course of the practice. If nothing else, he's already well onhis way to replacing Brett Favre's spot in Peter King's heart in the league's most influential weekly column.
But for a guy who needed a knockout week, the initial reviews are unadulterated fuel for the haters.Handling the snap is supposed to be the easy part of the transition; ifhe's still struggling with the basic exchange on national televisionthis Saturday, we won't be hearing the end of it anytime soon.
Originally Posted by Nowitness41Dirk
So, seriously, where is Riley Cooper slotted?
He just had to pay back a $250K signing bonus he got from the Rangers because he decided he wasn't going to pursue baseball...
•Drills have not been kind to USC S Taylor Mays, who needs to show thisweek that he can hold up in coverage. He looks stiff and is havingtrouble opening his hips out of his backpedal during one-on-ones.
Originally Posted by DLo13
•Drills have not been kind to USC S Taylor Mays, who needs to show thisweek that he can hold up in coverage. He looks stiff and is havingtrouble opening his hips out of his backpedal during one-on-ones.
• Idaho's Mike Iupatiis clearly the best offensive lineman on the North roster. He is quick,powerful, balanced and nasty. He struggled when moved to tackle andmight fit best at guard in the NFL, but he is good enough to considerlate in the first round.