Jordan Kovacs to Sean Considine comparison
Coming from the east coast, I didn't watch a ton of Big Ten football before I enrolled here at Michigan.
However, I have grown up a Philadelphia Eagles, and have seen quite a bit of Sean Considine. He walked on at Iowa and become a solid starter at safety. He was 6'0", 200 lbs, and not too fast (he was always a liability in coverage for the Eagles).
I'm sure there are guys on here who saw a lot more of Considine when he was in college. Was he a liability in coverage at that time? More importantly, is Kovacs to Considine an accurate comparison? Please let me know as I am kinda curious about this.
(Or at least I was...call me a bandwagoner, but McNabb and Dawkins were my main reasons for watching the Eagles).
Kovacs and Considine are extremely similar. I'm really glad you brought this point up. Kovacs has the potential to be a player of Considine's caliber, but Considine is good for the Eagles because they have good corners and a perennial Pro-Bowler as the other safety. We need our own Brian Dawkins.
His name is Camissioner Gordon.
Once we pair him with Obi "Ray Lewis" Ezeh and Will "Warren Sapp" Campbell, we'll be set!
I'm a pretty big fans of the Birds as well. I'd say its a fair comparison with Considine being more athletic than Kovacs. IIRC, Considine ran a low 4.5 40 at the Combine.
Kovacs is still an amazing story having gone from unrecruited walk-on to freshman starter.
Wow. Nice find.
Brett Greenwood. He was a significant liability on defense his first year as a starter. He became a decent starter his second year(limited athletically, and suspect in pass coverage but a hard-nosed tough hitter. Ring a bell?). Last year he received Big Ten honorable mention and a solid player all-around player. This year he probably makes some All-Big Ten second teams. that on one of the top 5-10 defenses in the country.
Th good thing about this 3-3-5 change and moving Kovacs to a DB position closer to the LOS maximizes his strengths(run support) and minimizes his weaknesses. Iowa wasn't going to change their defense for one player. This defense should highlight not only Kovac's strengths but, given the heavy-leaning DB class. It should work effectively in getting young hybrid LB/S talents like Marvin Robinson, and Josh Furman on the field.
It'll be interesting to see these young players develop. Hopefully, they'll be 'coached up' like Iowa's done. Both programs have very good-excellent S&C programs so, physically they should develop nicely ala. Iowa.
April 19th, 2010 at 10:42 PM ^
Greenwood is much more appropriate. Living in IC, I have seen enough Considine to realize he is (as stated earlier) more athletic than Kovacs. What Kovacs did not have was a magician safety as a partner and a stout D in front of him to mask some shortcomings. You put Greenwood on an island and there would not be much left once the dust settles.