Tonight's stock market report...

[Ken]

Stock Up:

Spencer- Thought he played well. Tough against the run and had a few pressures. Much better performance tonight.

Ogletree- He looks like a player. Something about him suggests a polished reciever with upside.

Bennett- Played very well. Saw him make some nice blocks and caught the ball really well.

Free- 2 games, no sacks. Hasn't done anything out of the ordinary but his guy isn't doing anything either...

Carpenter- made some decent plays, seems to be settling into a role. Had him in there with the ones for a while and didn't stick out...

Roy Williams- showed good tenanacity, caught the ball on a tough corner in Finnegan, got the PI in the end zone. Looks like a good thing is starting there...


Stock Down:

Jenkins- thought he looked like he wasn't paying attention enough. Got beat for one td and should have been beat for another long play.

Stanback- Nothing again...buh bye.

 

[Paniolo22]

If he took a 7 step drop, it was about 57 yards.

The guy got behind Jenkins, but Jenkins caught him with that 4.38 speed. He's faster than Britt, and it showed on that play. While the ball hangs up in the air for that extra 8 yards you are talking about, Jenkins has more time to run him down. He caught him and didn't have the luxury of the ball going further and hanging up longer.

Three bombs and zero yards.

The only thing that matters is results, and Jenkins won.

He caught him because the ball was under thrown. If your CB is chasing the WR on more than one occasion, that is not a good sign, regardless of what his 40 time is. It means he's peaking and biting on the move. Opens himself up for the (name your pattern) and up for a TD.

 

[jrumann59]

Depending on the coverage you DB will "chasing" a WR some times, if its man to man odds are your guy is trailing the WR. If he is playing of in soft man to man then you concede the underneath stuff like slants, curls, crossing patterns and outs. If he was playing tight man to man it is easier to make a play on the ball from behind then from in front also it then makes the QB try and throw the ball perfectly.

 

[InmanRoshi]

It's hard to grade Jenkins when he's facing Vince Young intead of an NFL caliber quarterback. If he's facing a QB that could throw an accurate pass, his night could have well have been a disaster.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I actually saw Bobbie Carpenter make a play. Take me Lord, I'm ready to go.

Be right there.

 

[Future]

Mike Jenkins had 3 or four great plays. He showed his great catch up speed and long arms and jumped up and broke that bomb up. Kenny Britt is huge. Also, he had great coverage on that bomb Young threw and complained about his receiver not looking back. Jenkins was running with that guy stride for stride. He was covered. It didn't matter. He made another play on the ball earlier than those plays.

Jenkins may have passed that guy off a little early (in the flat) on the TD, but that is easily correctable.

Jenkins looked great tonight.

I thought Jenkins looked awful. Kenny Britt had him beat by like 5 yards on that play. A good throw and it's an easy 6. Jenkins did show his athleticism by turning his head and breaking it up, but he was beat on that play...badly.

 

[TwentyOne]

Mike Jenkins- Made a great play on the deep ball. Granted if it was a good throw he would have been beat but it was nice to see a DB actually look for the ball. He also made a few nice tackles.
Gerald Sensenbaugh- All I have heard was how he was making plays but through two preseason games he has been pretty invisible. Bone headed penalty tonight as well.

I disagree on some points but the most important one are the plays of Sensenbaugh and Jenkins. I think Sense played a very good game yesterday.

Jenkins didn't play too well yesterday. In fact he looked really bad out there.

Whoever muffed that punt.

That was DeAngelo Smith.

 

[newlander]

People need to take off their silver and blue glasses w/ relation to evaluating Jenkins: he got beat deep 3 times tonight plus he whiffed on Gage in the red zone at the end of the first half: Scandrick will get his chance and should IMO. ( I really noticed Octavien's play: his best game as a Cowboy/Ogletree: ditto and even Carp played decent: nice open field tackle of Young)

 

[Oh_Canada]

People need to take off their silver and blue glasses w/ relation to evaluating Jenkins: he got beat deep 3 times tonight plus he whiffed on Gage in the red zone at the end of the first half: Scandrick will get his chance and should IMO. ( I really noticed Octavien's play: his best game as a Cowboy/Ogletree: ditto and even Carp played decent: nice open field tackle of Young)

I agree...a good QB and that's a td to Britt. Jenkins looked ordinary at best, very ordinary. Sense looked fine to me, do think the penalty was a bone head move' but his play was solid otherwise.

 

[The Quest for Six]

Stock up: Felix needs 20-25 touches per game.

Stock down: Free too easily bull rushed

No Felix doesn't need 20-25 touches a game.. did you think the same thing a few years ago when Barber was the second fiddle to JJ or Hambrick when he backed up Smith, I'm sure you did.... 10-15 touches a game is what he'll excel at..