New Trend in DB? wah wha wah??!!?

Two part series on some of the new type of DBs in the NFL game today. Here are two prospects that have caught my eye and from looking at tape on these guys. This could get good. These guys are basically like NFL WR's that have converted to DB and are able to survive in this league because of Goodell and the emphasis on de-tackling. Less contact, less concussions, less violence, which on his end serves him well, but I don't get anything out of it.

The first guy here is Stanley Jean-Baptiste out of Nebraska. He is a tall, rangy, guy and I just think if the Seahawks get some of these guys it could be the end of days for parity in the NFL. These are the guys I need, people. No one is reading ... yet. How can I cover Calvin Johnson? He is too fast, he is too tall, he can jump too high, he is too strong? Where that is an incomplete thought, there is a complete answer. You get someone just like him to the closest quality. Now Calvin is the coolest and the face of any ad campaign I'd run, but on game day you don't need someone perfect to cover him. You just need someone good enough with some help from teammates and coaches that are part of the solution, not the problem, and you can hold him to 2 catches for 29 yards.

Stanley Jean-Baptiste
Nebraska

Height: 189 cm
Weight: 15.5 stone

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Now, this is an excellent photo because you can kind of see how he looks like a wide receiver here. Patrick Peterson looks this way as well. Usually when someone is tall and I call them elegant-striders, as they just flow so gracefully, yet, with so much velocity.

Mini Chalk-Statistical Domination: This could have big time written all over it. Like BIG time. BIG 16 dream conference BIG. He has the potential to be an absolute superstar. Now, I created a little something, something called "lift" rating. This is the players lift off the ground in terms of true dynamics. In terms of this rating, two men stood out. Stanley Jean-Baptiste and Keith McGill. Now, I will not reveal their numbers for pure awesomeness reasons, I will reveal that almost ALL players were clustered around a central mean and median with some below the mean as well, except for these two. Now, the sample was small, but it included 20 of the elite and also "elite" players in this year's draft. Both McGill and Stanley Jean-Baptiste were two standard deviations from the mean and Baptiste was slightly more than two standard deviations from the mean. Now, there is a phrase "off the charts" that gets thrown around and there is literally a place on the chart where it does not exist any more, called an outlier. That is what you have here. That's what I want on my team. A bunch of outliers. Kinda like saying A-Rod on the Yankees, well you used to be able to say, he stood out, because of his native ability. He was an outlier.

Baptiste also makes plays during tape, so he is not just a freak of nature like Usain Bolt that can't do shit for brains other than run. He missed the double stamp in two marks to quantity explosion, barely. As a matter of fact next to his lift rating he has a +/- to indicate hey he's got it, there could easily be some human error here or he tests a little better the next day. Or better yet, we make sure he hits both explosion ratings and take care of this young man. 

Player comp: Richard Sherman, Cornerback

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The second guy here is a sir Keith McGill of Utah. Not sure if he is idolized there, but Utah, I think Mormons, and Johnny Utah, and both bring a bunch of funny thoughts to mind. Keith McGill same thing. "Lift" rating is off the charts. When I talk "lift" rating you should be thinking Marty McFly and those cool shoes. Like he gets "UPPP". McGill received two plus marks (out of two) in explosion to go with his ridiculous "lift". I'll put it this way. Ed Reynolds (2nd round pick to some people?) is probably in the Tom Zbikowski mold looking at his "lift" and I haven't calculated Zibby's lift, nor will I, because sometimes there are no need to confirm that assertion. There are guys I can tell you if they're good by their numbers, and when I hear a guys numbers sometimes I literally giggle to myself, almost uncontrollably, because it is like if I had a million dollars, I would guess that exact number to the hundredth, give or take a few ticks. Like "lift" you should be thinking push-up bra if you're not in the shoe game. It goes "UPP" and gives you an edge over the competition. It is almost required in today's game. Push-up bras that is. That's what these guys represent. Probably found some undrafted guys that succeed in the NFL with this cutting-edge, scientific-discovery, like the push-up bra.

Keith McGill

Utah

Height: 191.4 cm

Weight: 15 stone

Player comp: Antonio Cromartie, Defensive Back