Who Steps Up as Leading Return Man?
HARBAUGH
this team is seriously lacking in speed at the skill positions.
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If Peppers plays some offense, i would put Brian Cole at both PR and KOR. If Peppers plays only on D, i would like to see Peppers at PR and Cole at KOR.
Never really understood how or why one guy does not handle both roles on many college teams. I guess the ability to catch the ball and make a quick cut immediately would separate the two positions.
I can see PR, because Peppers has the moves, but he also seems idead at KR because of his overall speed...
its harder to catcha punt, you have to accellerate quicker with a punt, one might argue that you need better vision for KR, or that top line speed is more important at KR. They are very similar but the skill sets are slighlty different.
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Pretty insensitive to your avatar.
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Jourdan Lewis...
Agree - Lewis showed great moves and speed in HS and looked pretty awesome in his recent practice video.
I know a lot of people want a game breaker there like Peppers, and he probably would be great, but I always worry about increased chance of injury. Canteen has lightning quick feet as we know, and may be 4ish on WR depth chart so punt returner would be good for him, I think.
Same with Cole and kick returns, he's supposedly blazingly fast (Peppers couldn't catch him in that one practice!) and not a starter that could devastate us if knicked up on a kick.
Sometimes you gotta turn your stallions loose!! Let em play!!
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Bring your 'gunners' and see how they enjoy tackling nearly 500 lbs of RB returners.
[this is how kickoff returns work, the biggest guys win]
losing 90% of return yardage. Kind of significant there...
Just because he was the primary, perhaps sole contributor to the return game, doesn't mean he was proficient. That's like saying, "who's going to replace Devin Gardner at QB? He was like 90% of our offense!" Well, idk, perhaps another warm body?
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after leading the conference in return yards in 2013.
I wasn't saying he's impossible to replace, but someone does need to step up to do the job. If you noticed the last couple years, there was a massive dropoff when Gardner went out.
PR: Whoever can catch the ball reliably....Jake Butt?
KR: Irrelevant because our defense isn't going to let people score. In the rare instances that they do - Drake Johnson, Jehu Chesson, Brian Cole, Drake Harris (assuming health), and Ty Isaac (assuming fitness) are all guys reported to have elite speed. I wouldn't put Lewis or Peppers out there often because they'll be too important to the defense. Maybe a backup DB like Thomas or Stribling makes sense too.
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Peppers. I can't wait to see that.
This would be a great way to get Cole on the field.
I'd rather have Peppers get a few plays on O every game than do returns.
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I'd rather not have Peppers returning kicks. There's already plenty of injury chances playing safety.
I'd go with Canteen or perhaps Stribling . . .
Can we put Wangler in there just to hear "and Wangler back to receive the kick."
My greatest fear is that Peppers will always have injuries holding him back and or snap his ACL. I know we have Harbaugh, but I'm so just so insecure whenever we have nice things.