McKenzie is not the most physical player in the world to begin with. Now he's coming off a pair of major injuries. Besides, not all corners can make the move to safety. It's not as easy as it looks. Playing inside is a whole new game, requiring a whole new view of the field. Corners are accustomed to seeing the field out of just one eye. At safety, they have to see the whole field with both eyes. Some can make the transition better than others.
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Where in the WORLD does he come up with this?
“Corners are accustomed to seeing the field out of just one eye.” What, they keep one eye closed, like Popeye?
Corners very frequently play in a zone defense, which means that they have to watch for receivers entering and leaving their zone on both sides. They’re perfectly used to “seeing the field” with both eyes (by which I assume he means having to keep track of the play in two directions, using peripheral vision….unless he means that safeties need independently-targetable eyes…which is so nonsensical it may indeed be an official position of the Times-Picayune). To play safety, you simply move the zone elsewhere on the field. If it was this hard for a cornerback to play safety, it would also be hard to play nickelback…which is absurd.
McKenzie is a good hitter, a good cover man, and has good ball skills. If he wants to prolong his career, a move to safety is almost inevitable.
Gary Gibbs Must Geaux!
by MtnExile on Dec 31, 2008 3:43 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Boy do I love Jeff Duncan. I'm talkin' MSM, baby.
Well, I do.
I thought he meant one eye on the backfield, one eye on the receiver he’s covering.
I like McKenzie a lot. But in terms of knocking the hell out of somebody… well, let’s just say he’s more of a wrap ‘em up and ride ’em tackler than a knockout guy, don’t you think? He doesn’t remind me of Bob Sanders, I guess that’s what I’m sayin’. Al “Davis” Harris hits harder than McKenzie. Tell me I’m wrong.
I like this nola.com comment from “mofro69”:
JD, how the hell do you even have a job? i’d like to see Mckenzie pop your a$$, 1 good time, he is 1 of the hardest hitting corner’s in the NFL, and you’re gonna say he’s not very physical,
I just don’t think McKenzie hits that hard. I’ll have to go to the tape tomorrow I guess.
by stujo4 on Dec 31, 2008 4:08 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
You're right about Harris
He’s a harder hitter than McKenzie. But MM is still a pretty good hitter. He’s not Ronnie Lott—not the kind to take your head off—but frankly, I prefer sure, wrap-em-up tacklers to hitters. It drives me crazy seeing some corner coming up to lay some wood on a ball carrier, who simply bounces off and continues downfield. Just wrap them up, damn it!
As for keeping one eye on the receiver and one on the backfield, both safeties and corners use that technique. It’s how you victimize a callow or careless quarterback, and get victimized by a savvy one.
Gary Gibbs Must Geaux!
by MtnExile on Dec 31, 2008 4:29 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I like it when I find some stuff that gots contrary opinions
to what we been saying on Da Chronic, especially M-E…haha.
The Detroit Lions are on the clock!
by HansDat on Dec 31, 2008 6:24 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
So really I'm just being manipulated?
HansDat rings the bell and M-E swings into his Pavlovian blogging act. The sad part is, it might be true.
Gary Gibbs Must Geaux!
by MtnExile on Jan 1, 2009 10:23 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, no, M-E, not manipulated
Just helping me to get to the bottom of the MSM bad info jetstream. I read Duncan or Triplett, or DeShazier or Detillier or Alle-Walsh and think, “that makes sense” and link it in a fanshot, and then read something you bring up about it on the CSC and say to myself, “but that makes more sense.”
We need independent media to provide a diversity of voices in the news world.
But I must admit that your passion and wit make your postings much more interesting to read than any of theirs…
The Detroit Lions are on the clock!
by HansDat on Jan 1, 2009 10:38 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
That's because
most reporters are still constrained by this modern myth of the “objective” journalist.
My older brother is a newspaper editor (it was because of him that I was in the newspaper game for awhile), and he once told me something that had a profound effect on my understanding. He said that objectivity is impossible in a reporter—that a reporter has to be biased in order to function. What some people call “bias” is really nothing more than a world view—a way of understanding the things around you so that you can differentiate what is important from what is trivial. If a reporter can’t do that, he can’t report in any way but chronologically. Yet nearly all reporters have bought into the idea that allowing their beliefs to show through is a bad thing—and so their thinking on nearly any subject becomes disorganized.
I haven’t bought into that idea. So I can afford to say whatever I want, without worrying whether or not it will come off as “objective.” I can get as passionate (my wife prefers the word "unbalanced") as I want to. (Also, I don’t have to worry what my boss will think…or even the public, for that matter.)
But thanks for your comment, at any rate. I’m truly flattered.
Gary Gibbs Must Geaux!
by MtnExile on Jan 1, 2009 12:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
He's a reformed MSM'r
M-E saw the error of his ways, and we are all the better for it.
by stujo4 on Jan 1, 2009 12:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
yup the grassroots movement f the SBnation blogosphere will reform the landscape someday...
The Detroit Lions are on the clock!
by HansDat on Jan 1, 2009 12:48 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Mc Kenzie a great player- but not the type of safety we need.
I agree with Stujo. While McKenzie is a very sure tackler, he is clearly a “wrap em up and ride em” tackler and not a Ronnie Lott type or Dawkins or Lynch type. That’s what we need. We need at least one guy on the defense who is like that- one guy who EVERY receiver who goes against us keeps track of where that player is lurking out of a self-preservation instinct like they did with Lott, Lynch and do with Dawkins. Hits like Ryan Clark put on McGahee in the AFC Championhip game. How many hits this season were like that (I can only think of one- Dunbar’s) When was the last time we had a DB like that? Did we ever. That’s one of the three keys to upgrading our defense- 1) get Gregg Williams (we did that) 2) get QB pressure from DE’s ( hopefully GW will be able to fix that with schems or trades/draft or whatever 3) get a HEADHUNTER at Safety who will spread fear and mayhem on defense and inspire the rest of our D (along withh GW’s new approach) to be physical and attacking.
by Philinwood on Jan 29, 2009 7:46 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
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