Jourdan Lewis practicing with Cowboys 1st team at nickel
Good news for Jourdan Lewis. Had a hamstring pull, but appears to be practicing with the 1st team D now.
August 15th, 2017 at 8:07 AM ^
If he can stay healthy he should have a productive NFL career
August 15th, 2017 at 8:52 AM ^
You can bring up this healthy thing with any player but there is no reason to think he won't stay healthy.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
Sure there is. He missed the first three games of last season with a hamstring injury, too. That's two years in a row where his hamstrings have been a problem.
August 15th, 2017 at 8:14 AM ^
Color me unsurprised, JD falling to the 3rd might be the steal of the draft.
August 15th, 2017 at 8:20 AM ^
After Jake Butt of course.
August 15th, 2017 at 8:50 AM ^
How about an anonymous QB taken in the 6th round many years ago?
August 15th, 2017 at 9:07 AM ^
He had just beaten Bama in the Orange Bowl and was a 2 year starting QB for Michigan. It doesn't get more high profile than that.
The fact is that NFL scouts were too busy measuring his 40 time and number of bench presses to watch his tape.
August 15th, 2017 at 9:36 AM ^
Brady definitely hurt himself running a [7.2] forty and looking like a dough boy, but I was shocked at how low he went in the draft. He was everything in that Bama game that he is now (as far as decision making and play making).
I think Todd Collins not playing well for the Bills and Greise being a third stringer for 2 years hurt the perception of a Michigan QB being a commodity. Harbaugh, Grbac, Collins, (Greise) and even oft-injured Dreisbach sort of had Michigan bcoming a new Quarterback U. Harbuagh and Grbac had pretty good pro careers, but I think the Halo was off when Brady was drafted. Collins ended up being a one of the best (longest playing) backups in the league and had some good games when he started late in his career. Greise ended up having an o.k. pro career and Dreisbach looked awesome in a few pre-season games before injuries killed him. Add Henne and Navarre and Michigan had a nice run of QBs for awhile.
I realize I'm talking to myself at this point, but I wonder where that run of QBs stacks up to the 80's-90's Miami or the 2000's USC or other QB Us as far a productive pro output. Brady definitely tips the scale, but Grbac and Greise were pro-bowlers. (Does Harbuagh count as a contemporary?)
August 15th, 2017 at 1:50 PM ^
Griese was a third-stringer for one year on a Super Bowl team behind top five all-time QB John Elway and former starter-and-presumed-replacement Bubby Brister. Griese then beat out Brister for the starting role in 1999 and played fine; Bill Walsh had high praise for Griese out of college and nothing seemed to change that. Meanwhile, Elvis Grbac was beginning to get it in KC and developing into a solid starter there.
Even if these things weren't the case, the school has little or no influence on the decision to draft a QB. Brady isn't a third-rounder if Todd Collins has a 2-to-1 TD-to-interception ratio.
Was it a miss? You bet, but Brady's actual attributes didn't wow anybody when he was in college because he didn't have great physical tools and he didn't need to become a great read-and-throw decisionmaker in Michigan's offense with the vanilla playcalls and brilliant athletes he was throwing to.
August 15th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
The NFL perception of Brady's potential was colored by freshman Henson being put in during Brady time, implying the coaches didn't have much faith in him. Even most fans probably weren't aware that Steinbrenner not only had Henson's baseball rights but that he was a BIG OSU booster. We know about him giving Henson a take-it-now-or-leave-it offer to keep him from playing in his senior year. (And then put him in his Columbus minor league team to rousing boos from the fans.)
How much of the early platooning was due to the Steinbrenner pressure and how much was, according to Carr years later, that they needed to put Henson in because his summer baseball commitment didn't give him enough football practice time, so they had to put him in for the future? Either way, why would an NLF team put faith in a QB whose own college coaches kept bouncing him for a frosh?
PS: Good to know that Henson & Brady were good friends. And good to know that all's well that... still hasn't ended.
August 15th, 2017 at 6:46 PM ^
But Brady put a lock on the job by the the middle of 1999 and was a star by the end of that season.
August 15th, 2017 at 9:11 PM ^
I didn't know all the background then or why the fans kept calling for this Henson kid, watching the games on TV from afar. Brady had to wait his turn, so why couldn't the freshman? He didn't seem any better to me than Brady. So I was pissed on his behalf. Eventually the coaches let him play, with the fairy tale ending of the bowl game making up for all of it.
Until the NFL draft. And the rounds of ignoring him only adding to the legend.
August 15th, 2017 at 9:17 AM ^
Marc Bulger was solid, but I don't know if he was an all-time steal of the draft
August 15th, 2017 at 9:18 AM ^
Replied to the wrong comment. Now this thing is just sitting here, and I don't know what to do with it. Neg away.
August 15th, 2017 at 11:11 AM ^
But it seems like Drupal is acting up and I can't get access to anything outside of the mobile app. Anyone else?
August 15th, 2017 at 2:56 PM ^
Can show off his coverage skills on speedy slots and run support