Jaylon Smith: Relentless Effort, Heart of a Champion

Hadenough said:
He is always out of position and takes bad angles too.
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THIS is the BIGGEST issue. People can talk about him getting paid and relaxing. I think they seriously miss that this guy is simply NOT A GOOD FOOTBALL PLAYER!!!!!!!!!

The very few plays he has made in his NFL career are due to being in the right place at the right time. And these are the plays people are hanging their hat on when they refer to the "mythical magical" season he had 2 years ago.

He does not anticipate. He gets fooled 99% of the time. He NEVER has a clue pre-snap. Rarely has a clue post-snap. He simply LOOKS the part (size, speed, muscular). I am on record stating I refuse to talk football with anyone who thinks this guy was EVER a good player in a Dallas uniform. We have drafted LBers in the 2nd round that had all world measurables....Bruce Carter from UNC and a kid from a small school that ran like a 4.4....I think his last name may have been Davis. The guy had all the measurables....but the front office/coaching staff knew this guy had no idea what was going on....and he was cut. We did not give those guys contract extensions...because they could not play and were quickly out of the league after we moved on from them

I have said it before and I will say it again....anybody that convinced Jerry to give this guy an extension better not have a job making football decisions EVER again. My hope....for the sake of this franchise....is that this extension was Jerry and Jerry alone....because I already know he has very little football knowledge. It is one thing to draft him...thinking you may hit on something...but to actually have him in the building....and on the field...and get to watch him play day in and day out.....yet STILL give him an extension....whose idea was this???????

When the people at the Star....and the coaches and players for the other 31 teams turn on film every week of this guy....I am sure they see what we see. How we can keep trotting this guy out there convinces me we are the laughing stock of the league!!!

We complain about the extensions of D Lawrence, Zeke, Cooper etc....but ALL of those guys have shown sustained productivity...which at least warranted or allowed me to understand why they were paid. I have yet to have anyone show my why we made him one of the highest paid ILBs in NFL history. And PLEASE....PLEASE....do not give me tackle numbers. Unless they are tackles for losses (which shows anticipation)
 
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bbailey423 said:
THIS is the BIGGEST issue. People can talk about him getting paid and relaxing. I think they seriously miss that this guy is simply NOT A GOOD FOOTBALL PLAYER!!!!!!!!!
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And this is the brightest disappointment. The team gambled a premium 2nd round pick on a player that might not ever play again in order to get a “top 5 talent” if he ever recovered. He is nowhere near the worthy of the gamble the team took to acquire him.
 
bbailey423 said:
THIS is the BIGGEST issue. People can talk about him getting paid and relaxing. I think they seriously miss that this guy is simply NOT A GOOD FOOTBALL PLAYER!!!!!!!!!

The very few plays he has made in his NFL career are due to being in the right place at the right time. And these are the plays people are hanging their hat on when they refer to the "mythical magical" season he had 2 years ago.

He does not anticipate. He gets fooled 99% of the time. He NEVER has a clue pre-snap. Rarely has a clue post-snap. He simply LOOKS the part (size, speed, muscular). I am on record stating I refuse to talk football with anyone who thinks this guy was EVER a good player in a Dallas uniform. We have drafted LBers in the 2nd round that had all world measurables....Bruce Carter from UNC and a kid from a small school that ran like a 4.4....I think his last name may have been Davis. The guy had all the measurables....but the front office/coaching staff knew this guy had no idea what was going on....and he was cut. We did not give those guys contract extensions...because they could not play and were quickly out of the league after we moved on from them

I have said it before and I will say it again....anybody that convinced Jerry to give this guy an extension better not have a job making football decisions EVER again. My hope....for the sake of this franchise....is that this extension was Jerry and Jerry alone....because I already know he has very little football knowledge. It is one thing to draft him...thinking you may hit on something...but to actually have him in the building....and on the field...and get to watch him play day in and day out.....yet STILL give him an extension....whose idea was this???????

When the people at the Star....and the coaches and players for the other 31 teams turn on film every week of this guy....I am sure they see what we see. How we can keep trotting this guy out there convinces me we are the laughing stock of the league!!!

We complain about the extensions of D Lawrence, Zeke, Cooper etc....but ALL of those guys have shown sustained productivity...which at least warranted or allowed me to understand why they were paid. I have yet to have anyone show my why we made him one of the highest ILBs in NFL history. And PLEASE....PLEASE....do not give me tackle numbers. Unless they are tackles for losses (which shows anticipation)
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100%

I end up saying it every Sunday now but he’s so bad at playing LB that I cannot take my eyes off him. It’s like a curse.

What’s hilarious is after the Giants game where he actually made some positive plays some of the board blowhards were crowing like “heeehaaw, he’s back!!! I thought you said he was supposed to suck?!?!.”

What they failed to realize is that the Cowboys clearly dumbed down his assignments to just keying in on one guy, particularly the RB on screen plays. That’s great. Simple approach. Why don’t we do that all the time? Because it limits your defensive approach if you have players that can’t read coverages/plays, anticipate and make the right play. Opposing offenses will nullify you with play-action because they know you’ll take the bait.

The new mantra of the Jaylon deniers is to attribute his poor play with scheme which is a red-herring. No scheme can protect a LB entirely. A LB will always be required to take on blocks, fill a lane, make a read, et cetera.
 
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Aviano90 said:
And this is the brightest disappointment. The team gambled a premium 2nd round pick on a player that might not ever play again in order to get a “top 5 talent” if he ever recovered. He is nowhere near the worthy of the gamble the team took to acquire him.
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I hear you....but that happens all the time. What I cannot understand is the extension. That screams the organization saying "we don't want to admit the gamble did not pay off, so we are going to double down and extend him" What REAL football organization does that?
 
bbailey423 said:
I hear you....but that happens all the time. What I cannot understand is the extension. That screams the organization saying "we don't want to admit the gamble did not pay off, so we are going to double down and extend him" What REAL football organization does that?
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Still blinded by the name and what was supposed to be to accept reality.
 
CalPolyTechnique said:
100%

I end up saying it every Sunday now but he’s so bad at playing LB that I cannot take my eyes off him. It’s like a curse.

What’s hilarious is after the Giants game where he actually made some positive plays some of the board blowhards were crowing like “heeehaaw, he’s back!!! I thought you said he was supposed to suck?!?!.”

What they failed to realize is that the Cowboys clearly dumbed down his assignments to just keying in on one guy, particularly the RB on screen plays. That’s great. Simple approach. Why don’t we do that all the time? Because it limits your defensive approach if you have players that can’t read coverages/plays, anticipate and make the right play. Opposing offenses will nullify you with play-action because they know you’ll take the bait.

The new mantra of the Jaylon deniers is to attribute his poor play with scheme which is a red-herring. No scheme can protect a LB entirely. A LB will always be required to take on blocks, fill a lane, make a read, et cetera.
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I too cannot take my eyes of him on Sunday. Anyone who does not understand that the oppositions game plan coming into a game is to target his INABILITY to play football of any kind, is someone that you cannot talk football with. Boots, play action, straight bully ball right at him...or put him into coverage and target him 3 or 4 straight times if necessary. You could literally find him on every down and move the ball if you are the opposition.

Because I key on him...I have long since seen enough. Forget highest paid. Forget starter. He is NOT a NFL player. He does things on a football field you simply rarely see from a LBer. Why do you rarely see it? Because guys that do what he does never make it out of camp. You might luck out and see guys that perform like him in a preseason game...but they NEVER make the team. Not only did he MAKE the team...he STARTS.....and is one of the HIGHEST paid!!! You simply cannot make this kind of comical stuff up!!! He simply cannot be hidden on a defense. And if some of us realize that the team is trying to hide him...what do you think the offensive coordinators around the league think?
 
Aviano90 said:
And this is the brightest disappointment. The team gambled a premium 2nd round pick on a player that might not ever play again in order to get a “top 5 talent” if he ever recovered. He is nowhere near the worthy of the gamble the team took to acquire him.
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The staff seems to have a boner for players that have injury concerns but have "potential."
 
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