Roy Williams gets upset with Matt Mosley

[LaTunaNostra]

I am going to assume this post was written with extreme sarcasm.

- Mike G.

Me too.:laugh2:

 

[OldButDeadly]

I don't post much around here.... mostly lurk....

Anyhow....I do like Roy.... I called him "Shock and Awe" for awhile...He is a banger for sure...

However...I think he looks for that Bang too much....it is evident with all the fines he gets....He never has been a cover guy...so I don't fault him much on the coverage stuff....

But the Clinton Portis run around the end for a TD the other day really made me mad at Roy....That is the kind of play he needs to stop....I would rather he make more big stops than big hits....hits will come....no doubt about that.

Just my .02

Kev

 

[LaTunaNostra]

I don't post much around here.... mostly lurk....

Anyhow....I do like Roy.... I called him "Shock and Awe" for awhile...He is a banger for sure...

However...I think he looks for that Bang too much....it is evident with all the fines he gets....He never has been a cover guy...so I don't fault him much on the coverage stuff....

But the Clinton Portis run around the end for a TD the other day really made me mad at Roy....That is the kind of play he needs to stop....I would rather he make more big stops than big hits....hits will come....no doubt about that.

Just my .02

Kev

I agree with this.

If Roy actually is thin-skinned (which I doubt), he's got good reason to be. Time after time he get knee -jerk tagged for botched assignments...and then someone points out 'hey, guess what - I watched again and in that coverage, that wasn't Roy's man anyway'. Or "Roy's followed his assignment to a T - but Player X screwed up".

Fine, we're fans, not coaches, and even those who could be don't always have the viewing angles they need to speak authoritatively, but I think the media's understanding of coverages is just as lacking as our own. Williams gets blamed when he shouldn't, or others are equally or more at fault..

A LOT.

No, RW is not great shakes in coverage, but we all know it's the FS position that is holding us back, not Roy.

I like to see what coaches who run comparable Ds to us do personnel wise, and noticed it was when Belichick drafted the diminutive but speedy Eugene Wilson, that his move to Rodney Harrison over Lawyer Milloy really began to make sense. Harrison had lost speed but was still solider than LM in cover 2, considerably so, and tho he wasn't quite the short field hitter, his nastiness, experience, and size complemented Wilson better.

Both Mumbles and Bill claim their safties have to be interchangable - play all four hemispheres, but Bill B seems to take more advantage of individual skills pairing - he expects his safties to do everything from patrol the periphery to blitz to be forces in run d to cover..but he offsets one safeties weakness with another better.

The GOOD news is I think Bil had that pairing issue very much in mind when he drafted the WatKINS kid, and that is a big reason why the kid was given the start over Keith...down the line, his physcial attributes and skills set will make the best 'marriage' with Roy's.

Like you, if I have to criticize RW with anything, it's the seeming desire to big hit over sure tackle. But I can't go overboard on that either, because 'catalytic' players contribute a great deal psychologically with the 'hearing footsteps' consequence..and Roy's explosions into other player's bodies are such a finely balanced combination of angle, force, and torque that mastering his 'hit' technique, refining his sense of where and when and exactly how to explode into a player is as essential to his game as 100 percent wrap-up tackling is to lesser talents.

It is hard for me to criticize Williams - his game is in some ways unique, too special to mess with...what he needs is the perfect partner, and since Woody retired, he hasn't had that.

But I can see Bill knows it..and is trying to remedy it. (he just should have done it with Darren Sharper last year while preparing to develop a Watkins.)

 

[Fletch]

What an absolute douchebag.

Mosely is just pissed because he got called out. The media loves to harp on players regarding this and that, but when a player calls that person out, they have to justify themselves in any way possible.

Mosely just chose to be a big baby about it and took a verbal jab at Roy... a feeble one at that.

 

[dfense]

Another example of how weak minded Roy is. He mentally weak or soft, which ever one you like to use.

Weak minded? Maybe you mean thin skinned?

 

[bbgun]

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[LaTunaNostra]

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[WoodysGirl]

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[LaTunaNostra]

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