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Originally Posted by Chico23231
https://player.fm/series/cooley-and-...ley-kevin-hr-2
Cooley's Safety Troy Apke Film review.
The Good News: he can contribute to special teams
The Bad News: He is a terrible safety who doesn't play his position very well. Tackling issues at safety but those issues don't appear on Special Teams. He thinks too much at the safety position...which is bad bad news when your doing it on the college level already and its gonna get worse at the NFL level.
Cooley wouldn't say it, but Kevin did...this was a big time reach. Cooley said this was strictly a combine pick where his forty numbers and his vert got him drafted 2 rounds too high. Cooley said his tape at safety is absolutely not a 4th round grade.
Do you reach for a player with only special team value...and not kicking or returning the ball....but tackling a ball carrier?
The answer is no. bad pick
Tim Settle pick makes up for this garbage though...so not too mad.
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Mmmh, Cooley began his breakdown with "uncomfortable in the back pedal"... not a good thing for a safety... "below just a guy at safety right now"...
One thing though, he initially was a receiver, he switched to DB in college, so maybe he still has things to learn at this position and really could get coached up.
Let's hope they did see something others didn't... and if it doesn't pan out, hey
they missed on a 4th rounder in a draft that began with us finally drafting a
solid NT, getting
a 3rd rounder back, drafting a
promising RB in the 2nd and apparently a
potential steal swing tackle in the 3rd, and then founding another
good NT in the 5th round... nothing to get really crazy about.