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Ashley Lelie... COME ON, bro...
« on: Sep 11th, 2005, 4:53pm » |
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Catch the damn ball. Today's Broncos debacle was NOT about Jake Plummer. In the passing game, Rod was the ONLY guy to show up. Lelie dropped crucial passes, ran poor patterns and made poor decisions all game long. It made me long for Jerry Rice. Rice would have caught, e.g., those two balls at the end of the half and the end of the game (those were just two of Lelie's disgusting drops); Rice would have run crisp patterns all game long, and Rice would have, e.g., continued running through and to the ball on that play early in the game when Jake "overthrew" Lelie, which actually could have been a touchdown pass. Lelie, as the split end, is the guy who is supposed to stretch the field and open up the offense. He was shut down... Or, he shut himself down, and, thus, the field was not stretched for the offense; everything was tight and it all folds in from there... on the quarterback and on the running game. Terrible, Ashley, terrible. You got to show us the promise we think you have, man...
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Re: Ashley Lelie... COME ON, bro...
« Reply #5 on: Sep 14th, 2005, 3:41pm » |
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Two things here:
1.) Sometimes it can be hard to tell what week 1 means for a player or a team. The '99 Pats got spanked in Buffalo 31-0 to open up the year, a year they closed out with a Superbowl ring. Chad Johnson looked like a bum last year until about week 5. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for the nerves to unjitter themselves, sometimes the magic doesn't happen for a couple of weeks into the season.
That being said,
2.) The one thing that you cannot scout is balls. You can know about a player's hands, feet, inteligence, work ethic, strength, endurance, and whatever else, but you have no idea how big a player's nuts are until it's time for them to flex. The bigger your balls are the better you'll do in a pressure situation. Tom Brady has King-Kong balls. So did Joe Montana, Brett Favre, and the Cowboys triplets. So does every champion. Balls are the only thing that allow you to keep all of your ability when in the face of pressure. To be a go-to guy in the NFL, you don't need them to be as big as grapefruits, but they need to be bigger than the people behind you.
Maybe, just maybe, Ashley Lelie has what Bullettooth Tony called "mincey-little-faggot-balls," and maybe he can't take the pressure. It's still too early to tell, but it's something to keep an eye on.
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