OL is looking good. WR's are indeed getting better. Offense has a chance to be solid. Shrader supposedly is almost assuredly going to be the 3rd guy due to inaccuracy if "sources" are to be believed
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I don't really think there is value in weight- at least not at CB. My point was I was agreeing with you that you can play CB at 165 and be good. I had a class with Smoot and we were essentially the same size- height and weight wise and I weighed 180 then.
The biggest thing with CB to me is their ball skills. Can you cover the guy? Or do you get burned.
Not sure any of the 3 are real SEC difference makers but Pickering is the one that came in with all the hype. Will be disappointed if he doesn't become a big factor on our DL at some point, hopefully this year. Would certainly have liked to have kept Lovett but he just seemed to be a big body in there and was always disgruntled even going back to his recruiting process. I didn't see him ever being anything more on our DL than 'solid' which was fine.
Florida State had the 88th ranked defense in the country last year (worse than us) and has had a lot of defensive injuries in camp. They would be playing for us if they were here but Jones isn’t worth a shit, which probably says a lot about what we can expect in our secondary.
Once it was revealed that Lovett was the one that had a problem with the workouts and wanted to talk to a coach about it I was done with him. We can't win big at MSU with guys like that. We already have too many hurdles to overcome to have to worry about a guy's heart.
Dude you act like we're talking in the 50's. A 175 pound cb in the 90's was small. He could only bench 225 1 time for the scouts. That's why he struggled with big WR'S. I think you're trying to equate yourself with him. If so you would have been a small player too bro. It is what it is.
I see some impatience and higher expectations ... Don't forget that after the first year under JoMo we ALL KNEW we were in for several mediocre years until a competent HC would come along ... and that HC was going to need a few more years as well. I enjoy optimism but it's not like we weren't all expecting this