Davie?

He's better than he's shown. He's been routinely torched this year, and I don't know why. But he has skills. "Not good" is not an apt description. "Not playing well," that's a great description.

 
knapplc said:
he has skills. "Not good" is not an apt description. "Not playing well," that's a great description.
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Wait, how are these different? How do you define 'good' besides 'playing well'? Am I missing something?

 
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He has played well in the past. That he isn't now is a bigger mystery than that he did before.

Did people forget 2014? Davie wasn't some chump out there getting burned game in and game out. That's the same dude out there. The results are different, but it's the same guy.

 
knapplc said:
He has played well in the past. That he isn't now is a bigger mystery than that he did before.

Did people forget 2014? Davie wasn't some chump out there getting burned game in and game out. That's the same dude out there. The results are different, but it's the same guy.
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The schemes are vastly different. You can't compare a dude's coverage from last year to this year because they simply aren't playing the same defense.

Davie might be a good player in some schemes - but he certainly looks awful in this scheme.

 
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bale said:
knapplc said:
He has played well in the past. That he isn't now is a bigger mystery than that he did before.

Did people forget 2014? Davie wasn't some chump out there getting burned game in and game out. That's the same dude out there. The results are different, but it's the same guy.
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The schemes are vastly different. You can't compare a dude's coverage from last year to this year because they simply aren't playing the same defense.

Davie might be a good player in some schemes - but he certainly looks awful in this scheme.
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But that doesn't mean he doesn't have talent. He does. It may not match this scheme (I think it does, but we'll see), but that's a very different thing than not having talent.

 
Maybe last year he played up to his full potential.
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He had a lot of help back there last season. This year he looks like he lost confidence - and a step.

 
SouthLincoln Husker said:
Davie can cover, he just does not finish plays. He needs to look for the ball and make his hands active.
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This. He's been in position. He could have made plays on the ball if he'd have looked. He's been skilled up to a point - the point where the ball contacts the receiver's hands. Then he seems to be unskilled.

It takes a lot of skill to get to that position. Finishing from there is what makes a player great. We need him to be great.

 
It's mostly scheme. It was perfectly illustrated by Kaaya today. Miami motioned from two receivers on each side to trips to the wide side of the field, Kaaya's right-hand side and thus the easier side to read and throw to. From the motion, he could tell that he had man coverage on all three receivers. He audibled to the play he wanted and then all he had to do was find one of those three receivers who beat their coverage. That particular play ended up being an incomplete pass iirc, but it's extremely unlikely that all three guys having to play man coverage with 2/3 of the field to cover are all going have good enough coverage to prevent a throw. They have to defend deep and short, inside and outside. That's simply asking too much.

 
#MavricForDCoord.

Seriously. If it'll fix things. The jury is out on Banker in most people's minds. What we saw in that first quarter was not good. And it should have us legitimately worried about how many more teams are going to take advantage of it. Let's see.

 
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