The first televised action of theSouth team at this year’s Senior Bowl practices featured thebiggest hit I’ve ever seen at this event and 3 QBs who are allbetter than any of the QBs on the North team. In receiver drills, wegot to see deep balls consistently overthrown instead of underthrownfor a change. I’m not sure if NFL Network has stopped airing theselive or has taken complete control of the team practices, becausethey again covered the 1-on-1 receiving drills and 1-on-1 passprotection drills, also known as Mike Mayock porn, brilliantly,giving us tons of reps to watch and not interrupting it with stupidgarbage like they’ve done in the past. For instance, in past years,they would have done the stupid interview with Jerry Jones insteadof showing us drills. This year, he’s shoved back in the 9:30recap show where he belongs. Some more stabs at who belongs in thespotlight or doesn’t:* Best-looking wide receiver for theSouth was Tavarres King (Georgia). He’s 6’1” 200 and runsbeautiful routes. He ran a perfect out route to beat J.J. Wilcox (Ga.Southern) after making a sweet side-to-side fake to beat the press.He ran an excellent corner route and lost college teammate SandersCommings, and beat him again later with an excellent catch. King hasnice hands, runs excellent routes, makes great fakes without losingspeed, is quick, is sudden, and can create separation. The NFL-Nanalysts obviously have “their guys” – that’s how we heard somuch about Terrance Williams (Baylor) Tuesday even though he didn’tbeat anybody, not on camera, anyway. King is the receiver to watchfrom this group so far, though he may have gotten a wrist injury whenLeon McFadden (San Diego State) ripped a ball away from him in11-on-11.
* The eye-opener of the DBs was B.W.Webb (William & Mary). He showed he could get both physical withTerrance Williams (probably illegally) and blanket him on deeproutes. Broke up at least three passes and was the only DB I saw whocould stick with King. Webb had a lot of good company. Marc Anthony(Cal) showed tight cover skills in man and zone. Shawn Williams(Georgia) was pretty much a blanket on TE Mychal Rivera (Tennessee).
* Rice has had two tight ends play inall-star games this month; apparently the NFLPA game got the backup.Vance McDonald’s getting graded as the best TE in Mobile. He beatsafety Robert Lester (Alabama) deep but is showing a nasty habit sofar of double-catching the ball. Lester’s about the only DB thatlooked like he struggled Tuesday. He’s behind in speed andquickness. The best throw of the day came early in 1-on-1. RobertAlford (SE Louisiana) had pretty good deep coverage on Quinton Patton(La. Tech) but Landry Jones hit Patton in the end zone with a perfectpass. We haven’t seen anything close to that kind of pass from theNorth team’s QBs. Tyler Wilson (Arkansas) made a nifty play in11-on-11; he dropped the snap but managed to scoop it, bootleg leftand hit Rivera.
* Vince Williams (Florida State) won thehit of the day award, possibly also the hit of the week award and theall-time Senior Bowl practice hit award. Coming downhill on a runplay, he fired into the gap and had a massive head-on collision with pulling guard Dalton Freeman (Clemson), andWilliams won, bowling the bigger lineman onto the ground. Not only didWilliams win the trainwreck, he got a piece of the ballcarrier on thetackle and got interviewed by NFL-N for the play.
* 2013 looks like a good year not toneed a defensive lineman in the draft. The South offensive linedominated 1-on-1 drills. Ziggy Ansah (BYU), the most hyped of thegroup, lost three out of four reps. His bull rushfailed against Xavier Nixon (Florida), though he was able to beatNixon with a nifty spin move. Everett Dawkins (Florida State) likelysaw Larry Warford (Kentucky) in his nightmares Tuesday night. Warfordstuffed him decisively three times and never let him get even a sniffof the pocket. Brian Schwenke (Cal) was impenetrable at center,combining tree trunk-like immovability with excellent handwork andfootwork that can mirror anybody. Tied up everyone he faced and putCorey Grissom (South Florida) on the ground. The South d-linemencould really use some coaching from the Detroit staff, though, whichI’m not sure is doing any. None of them really look like they havea second move; if their bull rush fails, they’re dead in the water.A lot more to pro pass rush than bull rushing.
* Did I say it’s abad year to need a defensive lineman? Really, it’s a great year toget an offensive lineman. I didn’t even get to Lane Johnson(Oklahoma) yet, who’s expected to be a first-round pick who couldbe on the board when the Rams pick. He plays with excellent leverage,as seen when he put Malliciah Goodman (Clemson) on the ground. TWICE.He also stonewalled speed-rushing LSU DE Lavar Edwards, so he seemsable to handle whatever’s thrown at him. All the South o-linemenlooked like Eric Fisher Tuesday; Johnson bears keeping an eye on.
* About the onlyd-lineman who did anything was Cornelius Washington (Georgia),another speed rusher. He whipped across Oday Aboushi’s (Virginia)face at left tackle with ease, though Mayock said Aboushi should belimited to the right side. Washington could also bull-rush well because he had the o-linemen worried about his edge speed. He put a solidpunch on Nixon another time to get pocket penetration. He was alsopulled out of the DE rotation at one point for jumping offside, butgot back in later when his replacement jumped offside.
That’s justanother “benefit” of being coached by the Lions staff, I guess.The pass pro drills and 11-on-11 were plagued by offsides and falsestarts; it’s no surprise seeing players coached by the DetroitLions committing poor-discipline penalties. I hope the South’splayers will be able to overcome their week of exposure to thatstaff.
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