Basically you are wrong, lol.
Not sure how else to say this.
where you are wrong:
1. 7-10 yards is not off coverage for a safety. 15-20 yards is. Watch Cowboys tape if this confuses you.
2. The Michigan DC was rewarded for how he used Peppers with the best Michigan defense in a decade plus.
3. Lots of scouts I trust have him ranked around 100. I haven't had a single board by anyone I trust with him in the top 25.
4. You have to watch the player and place him in the role of the defense he would be playing. You can;t assume because a guy can break dance he'd be great at ball-room.
5. At the top of the routes he is very physical but that's called pass interference in the NFL.
6. He blitzed 3 times in a row and at least 6 time sin the late 2nd to 3rd quarter versus Colorado. This happened to coincide with the score changing from Colorado ahead to wayyyy behind.
1. He was playing LB and slot corner. And off coverage is off coverage. He was not meeting the receiver until the top of the break. He was still out on a
2. He was a game changer.
3. Who cares? And you just chastised me for watching film with commentary.
4. Actually if a person can work in harmony at over 100 BPM I would be confident that they can handle a waltz. You can look at common tasks and their relative difficulty.
5. Actually, NFL WRs are bigger than ever and more of them play like Michael Irvin than ever before. NFL TE are even worse. Sure DBs look for flags but they don't get them unless arms are extended. You see all kinds of handfighting nonetheless.
Look at a guy like Witten who runs extremely powerful routes gaining separation at the top despite declining speed and quickness. Jones struggles against that physicality and gave up RZ TD because of it. I love the idea of Peppers covering TE in the red zone.
6. I counted 4 and he got home on one of them. Not a bad rate. And successful pass rush is much more impactful than successful coverage. In the first half they were trying to run curls and gos to bait him and it did not work nonetheless. The success they had was throwing underneath him and running upfield and running posts behind him.
