The 40 is important (kinda) but does it really affect coverage ability at ILB? In coverage from the 2nd level back-peddling and moving laterally are like 70% of the movement. You're not gonna find an ILB fast enough to cover a Hernandez or RB out of the backfield, sorry to burst y'alls bubble but 85% of why NE smoked us out of the backfield was due to coaching and talent on their side. Yes we need speed and athleticism inside, don't get me wrong, but let's go through the data. Let's analyze what we consider to be the top 15 cover LB's in the game and find their 40 speed. And no, I do not want Teo.
According to HoustonTexans.com, it's "not outside the realm of possibility" the team uses its first- or second-round pick on a quarterback. "In this business, you better be looking for young quarterbacks you think have a chance to be a 10-12 year guy," coach Gary Kubiak said. Despite his comments, Kubiak insists he has faith in Matt Schaub and T.J. Yates. With Schaub in decline and Yates still a wild card, we don't doubt the Texans would pull the trigger on an early-round QB if they found themselves smitten. It's also possible the Texans are simply trying to create a market for the 27th pick.
I Heard they plan on moving Reed to inside LB. We need another CB or Saftey everything else can be replaced.
T'eo trying to cover Gronkowski et al looks like a recipe for disaster and will have him burning up the twitterverse for an e-shoulder to cry on.
Before I made any judgments about Manti Teo's 40 time (which seems slow), I looked something up. http://walterfootball.com/draft2009OLB.php He alright.
Cushing still dominates him in every statistical category handily and it would have been even worse if Manti didn't punk out of the bench press. http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/brian-cushing?id=80421 http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/manti-te'o?id=2539277
I would call that the expected differences between a mid-first round pick and late first round pick with similar college careers.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Any team that wastes a 1st round pick on Manti Teo should fire their GM on draft day</p>— Mark May (@mark_may) <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_may/status/306439953217372160">February 26, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I'm torn...don't think Teo is a first rounder, but Mark May saying this makes me think he'll be the best LB of all time.
I can see a scenario where a team trades up early second to get him. He is a play maker on defense. Not the fastest by any means, but his instincts are very good. Speed can be improved, Instincts can not.
He's 22 and has had the last couple months to focus solely on being quick/fast for the combine...if this isn't the most ideal time for him to be the fastest he ever has or can be, then I don't know what is. Unless he finds a great HGH supplier, or he has simply been completely mismanaged in terms of working out, he isn't going to miraculously improve in those areas. That being said, he'd probably still be a late 1st round pick had it not been for the whole catfish thing.
He's just making those comments on ESPN's behalf to spark some marketing juju between the whole manufactured war going on between him and Lou Holtz (ND) -- don't take it literally man. C'mon.
for the love of god just dont let gary kubiak pick quarter backs. its quite obvious he doesnt know a damn thing about picking qbs because every single one of his qb picks have sucked massive assss. Orlovsky Schaub Rosenfels Grossman John Beck TJ Yates Case Keenum man i hate kubiak.
Please. Kubiak can develop QB's. The year's that we could have taken a franchise QB it was not a need for the Texans at the time. Quality backup QB's are VERY difficult to find. There's not enough good starters, let alone backup's to fault him for those moves. You can hate him for plenty of other reasons (and I do), but not because the QB's that he'd picked up in the draft or free agency haven't panned out. They never had much upside to begin with (and the book is still out on Keenum).
