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Have you seen him play LT this year? He blows, he is a RT and a avg. one at that.

Trent Williams sucks, why would you want him?

co-sign

Lol, no. Nagata acutally played in the game & could rush the passer, Cody plays like a 3rd of the game and can't rush the passer at all. here is the whole thing. The NFL scouting combine has a wide variety of drills to gauge a player's proficiency in many physical areas -- the bench press measures strength, the vertical jump and broad jump grade short-area burst capabilities and the 20- and 60-yard shuttle drills rank a player's ability to start and stop quickly. As valuable as these training methods are, after looking at game tapes of Alabama Crimson Tide nose tackle Terrence Cody, it is clear there is one physical attribute the combine doesn't measure that it badly needs to. That attribute is endurance. Look at Cody's relative lack of playing time in a key, four-game SEC stretch that the Crimson Tide recently went through (at Kentucky, at Mississippi, vs. South Carolina, vs. Tennessee). Alabama faced 116 rushing plays in those games and Cody was on the field for only 68 of them, or 58.6 percent. Nick Saban's defense also faced 165 pass plays and Cody was in the game on but 54 of those plays, or 32.7 percent. Add the two together and Cody was in the Alabama defensive lineup on only 122 of 281 plays -- or only 43.4 percent of the time. To look at it another way, he was on the field for approximately 30 out of 70 plays per game. That sounds like a low number, but a key element in the Draft Lab series is that any collegiate totals have to be compared to NFL totals to see how they contrast. The expectation is that a draft prospect should be able to post totals against the lower level of competition in college that are appreciably better than a pro player's totals against NFL talent. In Cody's case, a perfect comparison would be how his playing time matches up against that of NFL nose tackles. I don't have those numbers available, but I do have a reasonable facsimile in a 2007 study I did on playing time for three top 4-3 defensive tackles the previous season: Albert Haynesworth, Cory Redding and Kevin Williams. Here are the results of that study: Three Of The Best 2007 endurance metrics for some of the best nose tackles in the National Football League: Player Plays in games Plays not in games Total plays % of time on field Albert Haynesworth 532 370 902 59.0 Cory Redding 858 227 1,085 79.1 Kevin Williams 866 214 1,080 80.2 At the time of the study, Redding and Williams were both noted for their ability as every-down players, but Haynesworth had the same knock on him about his inability to stay on the field that he has today. If Cody's collegiate playing time doesn't even match Haynesworth's it cannot be seen as a good sign, but there is a caveat: Alabama has a deep defensive line rotation. It is possible that Cody could play more, but without a way of measuring endurance, NFL teams will have a tough time determining if that is the case. That isn't the only caveat, however. Cody reportedly weighed more than 400 pounds as a juco player, and the first thing the Crimson Tide coaching staff told him when he transferred to Alabama was that he would have to lose a good deal of weight in order to get on the field. He certainly accomplished that, with his reported weight now at 354 pounds, but it very well could be that the Bama coaching staff still lacks faith in his ability to stay on the field for longer periods of time. The Haynesworth comparison is also not entirely apt because Cody's performance metrics in these four games come nowhere close to matching Haynesworth's totals. Cody did draw a higher rate of double-teams (63.6 percent to Haynesworth's 2007 double-team mark of 51.3 percent) but he notched only five Point of Attack (POA) blocking wins in 22 POA runs, or a win rate of 22.7 percent. In the three full seasons of run metrics I have completed on Haynesworth over the years, his POA win rates were 43.4 percent (2005), 32.3 percent (2007) and 23.8 percent (2008). Haynesworth's metrics are a high bar to reach, but if Cody cannot exceed those totals against college blockers, it stands to reason that he might struggle to equal those numbers at the pro level. Cody also was basically nonexistent as a pass-rusher. He relied heavily on the bull rush and sometimes got into a very bad habit of doing a one-armed bull rush. That move didn't work for him in these games and it absolutely won't cut it at the next level. His pass-rushing metrics also reflect a lack of success. He made three splash plays in these four games and one of them was a borderline call that I decided in his favor (splash plays being defined as when a defensive player does something that impacts a passing play -- sacks, passes knocked down and offensive holding penalties being three examples). Good NFL nose tackles tend to generate six to eight splash plays a year and Cody is barely on track to reach that total. The last item of note is that Cody's draft prospects seemed to get a bit of a shot in the arm when he blocked two critical field goals in Alabama's win over Tennessee. As impressive as those were on their face, in both cases Cody was part of a double-team. He didn't defeat either blocker on his own, so the blocks should be seen as more of a collective effort than a singular effort. That he took his helmet off after the second field goal while the play was still live (something that should have cost the Crimson Tide a penalty) also indicates that he may have a bit of the bad part of Leon Lett in him. TFS Lab Result: Cody's size, strength and ability to draw a double-team are impressive, but his subpar metric performance and the overriding concerns about his endurance give him a qualified TFS overhyped grade. If a team takes him in the second round with the idea that he is a two-down space-eater who can plug run gaps, he's a good fit. If a team takes him in the first round with the idea that he will be an every-down nose tackle, that would be a mistake.

K, we on the same page then

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft10/ins...tory?id=4618676 I will post the whole thing if you want.

Cody is a 2 down player. We will have a top 8 pick. You really want to pick a 2 down guy in the top 8? If he is there in R2 hell yea but not in the top 8.

Flacco has a HUGE arm, Pike has an avg. arm at best.

I didn't watch all the game (but have seen a few others), he did have 3 INTs in the game. Saw part of the come back and he looked good. He broke is non throwing arm twice now, and is skinny as a pole. I'd be okay with him in R3 but anything before then I'd be skeptical http://walterfootball.com/scoutingreport2010tpike.php I am not a fan of McGuire. I think Pike does have some arm strength but I'd call it avg.

The refs gave TEX a FG on a BS PI call. So TEX fans thank the refs.

where is all the McCoy love from last week? O'yea he acutally had to play a D tonight and is getting killed.

We would have to get the 1st pick or the 2nd, so not going to happen.

He has 2.5 sacks tonight in the 1st half and is blowing up the Texas O-Line.

Much rather have this from that draft QB-Jimmy Claussen DT-Brian Price DE-Greg Romeus no LT but you got great value in each round

Suh with a sack, guy has been a beast all day. Has 2.5 sacks so far.

Only a 40 some yard TD drive by TEX. NEB had them 3rd & like 13 but a dumass didn't look for the ball and got the PI call so that ball was put on the 4.

Trent Williams has sucked at LT this year. Don't want to take a T that high unless they can play LT.

Man, NEB O sucks. Looks like their D will wear down in the 4th just like us.

See NEB taking all the underneath throws away from McCoy and he is doing nothing. And McCoy is finally playing a good D.

Same.

I will be watching Shu, just because we know what McCoy is, a great collge QB and that is it).

I hope TCU gets in the the title game.

YES, Tebow is crying!! I LOVE IT!

did you see that stat they put up? He is 2-5 when traling in the 4th.

Roll Tide Roll!!!!!