Justin Gilbert --> Patrick Peterson

Justin Gilbert
Oklahoma State

Height: 185.7 cm
Weight: 14.4 stone

Strengths: + + + Speed
                  + + + Athleticism
                  + + + Ball Skills
                   + +   "Lift"
                   + +   Tackler
                  + + + Playmaker
                  + + + X-Factor


Mini Chalk: If you wondered why I call it a mini chalk, it is because this is like a fireside chat that FDR gave to our forefathers and fellow brethren before us. A short, sweet talk on what you're getting into and peek into the future. So. huddle around those MacBooks. This is one of my favorite players like a similar favorite player in Patrick Peterson. Gilbert is by no means Patrick Peterson, but Gilbert is an elegant-strider as I mentioned with Stanley Jean-Baptiste, and Patrick Peterson before. He is a top-notch, elite athlete. He has the all the swag in the world, and he is a dynamic playmaker on the defensive side of the ball; which is very rare. He can pick it for six ... just like that.


Player comp: Patrick Peterson, Cornerback

Player Profile: Khairi Fortt

Here is a guy you have never heard of! Again. Here is a guy that is a Linebacker U product. Here is a guy who is also a California Bears product. Ohh, one of those guys. I always love those stories. A guy didn't catch on for some reason for whatever reason and goes to another team and somehow has a heroic comeback or now people see him in good light or whatever reason. Not sure but it sounds a lot like Jerry. Ohh. A lot of time the best guys don't get selected for reasons beyond their control and this guy is either peep quiet because everyone loves him or they don't care about him. This guy is a sure-fire day three pick. He could go undrafted. And here is a NFL player. Come on, people. What are you watching?

Khairi Fortt
Cal

Height: 188.5 cm
Weight: 17.7 stone

Mini Chalk: Teams around the NFL looking for a 3-4 ILB this is your perfect guy. He looks like a LaMarr Woodley build, but pre-fat camp Woodley. Like lean, cut, well-built. He is a downhill linebacker. He is pretty good at the pop and shed, a key for 3-4 ILBs, and can rush the passer pretty well for ILBs. He has long arms that help him engage the offensive linemen and he has the strength to get off of him. His best asset might be his athleticism, very good tools there. He is very strong, can jump, pretty explosive, all-around player. He is the perfect "Buck" LB in the 3-4 and when he needs to cover in situational football he isn't a liability there, just average in that department.

Player comp: Hardy Nickerson, Linebacker

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

#16

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

Player Profile: Joel Bitonio G/T

It's kind of funny to think about, but when I think of my offensive linemen I like to think of dancing ballerinas. Like if you would picture that, it would make you be in a happy place [bc it is hilarious] and then you can make an informed decision. Because nothing pisses me off more than missing on an offensive linemen for whatever the reason: likes too much eat less play, pure laziness, I eat too much and my knees, bending, back, any bullshit for the reason that these guys fail to do the damn job. The real reason is because your weight isn't distributed properly you lazy fuck and your knees can't support it, yet, if the whole body would have added strength properly distributed it would be possible to be without pain, as I've seen it before. Okay, thank you captain dietician. But if I think you can move around and dance, then you're not going to fail me in the 4th quarter because of some word called FATIGUE. Likes what does that even mean. I need you to be nimble and on your feet and ready to go all damn day, because that is what a ballerina can do. At the end of the day, they are athletic and you need to have athletic linemen, especially with the specimens they have on the defensive side of the ball these days. The ballerinas help me remember that.

Joel Bitonio
Nevada

Height: 193.6 cm
Weight: 21.5 stone

Mini Chalk: This guy probably in the mold of a guard than a tackle because he is like a walking penguin out there flailing his arms. I'm not anti-lumberjack or anything, as long as you can get through the ballerina routine than I don't care what you look like but this guy offers minimal flexibility, although playing at the tackle position his entire career. On the inside, his numbers are right in line with the guards of the NFL today. This guy has a mean streak, like nasty. Like he would kick my ass, and I'm about 14.5 stone, if he read what I said about him.


Player comp: run-of-the-mill Big Ten Guard

Robert Herron --> Steve Smith (Carolina)

I guess you have to throw that Carolina on the end of Steve Smith. Shows that the name hasn't been that great that another could easily be confused. Hmm, sad. Anyway, that doesn't tell the story of Robert Herron. He can become the next in that Victor Cruz-Steve Smith where they have a five year terror on the league. He is a small school kid but not with small time skills. He is an electric playmaker, one many probably don't know about. He is a possession guy underneath. Well, let me say that again. You want to use this guy like Antonio Brown, Steve Smith. Dinky more or less extended hand-offs, screens, slants, curls, and those routes. Yet, this guy can beat you deep like Cruz and Steve Smith, once again. He has very good route running and move making in selling his body to the corner. You know what I mean. A little shimmy, and the guy is grabbing his jockstrap going how did he do that. That's the kind of guy I would expect with Robert Herron. The problem is there are so many of these guys. I just feel bad for teams that miss at wide receiver, like come on, what the fuck are you watching. I will make an elite wide receiving core from every draft. Just using that draft. No excuse not to be rich at the wide receiver position.

Robert Herron
Wyoming

Height: 175.5 cm
Weight: 13.7 stone

Speed: 4.28

Electric

Player comp: Steve Smith, Wide Receiver

Larry Webster --> Jimmy Graham

Ahh, so you wanna hear about Lair? What you know bout Lair? Nothing. No one knows nothing about Lair. They know so very little, they got the cat playing defense. Think about that. Just chasing quarterbacks, instead of catching passes. Think about everything I just said with Larry Fitzgerald in your mind, instead of this man foreign to you. It wouldn't make any sense. Hopefully, you are welcome, Larry Webster. These fools are idiots.

Larry Webster
Bloomsburg University

Height: 197 cm
Weight: 18 stone

2012

This kid really deserves a cover story. An interview. But we got resource issues. No funding. Just a genius behind the wheel of glory. Okay, this is young Larold, a few years back as a basketball player. See where I am going. Now, I am pro-conspiracy, like House of Cards, I believe people can be inherently evil with an agenda and find a way to cover themselves because of power and greed. Now, you don't believe in conspiracy just for the sake of conspiracy. Kinda like of the mindset of being against hipsters. A hipster tries something new, just for the sake of trying something new. I don't know. Just something I thought about earlier.

Point being did they put this clown at defense to sabotage him or are they just that dumb down in Bloomsburg University. The picture becomes more clear when you say that over, over, over, and over again. Bloomsburg University. What state is that in? You know what? It doesn't matter. It is irrelevant. They are that dumb.

I put the kid in a basketball uniform from his days on the team to show you something that no one else will show you. The ability to not be blind. If you see him in his uniform you'll think something different but you see where I'm going with basketball player ... NFL ... as I salivate like a dog with a piece of meat hanging from the counter dripping on his nose.

You look at this kid in any way from his numbers and they are completely off the charts. One of the reasons I love the Jimmy Graham comparison is because is if a team is smart they will gobble this kid up in the 3rd round compensatory round, much around the area a young Jimmy Graham went. Jimmy Graham, the 100M dollar man I might mind, but we'll see if the franchise tagging of the NFL denies him his big deal. It pisses me off when I have to check him [Larry Webster] and I look under tight end, I don't see him, I have to look under defensive line. These people should be shot or just let the other farm animals run the team. Hell, the goat can be the mayor.

Quick Chalk: Okay, arms, long, but not gorilla long. Hands, nice paws. Speed right in line with top flight tight ends of the game today. Strength given arm length decent for right now. I would imagine room to grow. Seems like a strapping young lad. Never met the guy tho. Vertical jump very good given other variables gives him quite the advantage over his competition every Sunday. Broad jump shows good explosion given a man of his size. Explosion not completely off the charts, but given his background in basketball you can understand it is quite good.

Player comp: Jimmy Graham, Tight End

maybe you'll find out in comparison what stone and centimeters is tall and strong, relatively speaking

Deone Bucannon --> Brian Dawkins

Personally, this is my kinda guy. This guy might eat his children. No, Mike Tyson might be the only one to be able to do that. Good God. But he is a high intensity, high motor, high character, high determination, high leadership kinda guy. Basically, meaning I like him a lot. He gets great marks on production, something I rarely check on as it is more about what you can do, not necessarily what you've done. He has good speed for the safety position and is the top strong safety in this class. Find me another one and sir you are gravely mistaken. He will lay the lumper but, yet, he is deer-like in the secondary after he intercepts the pass. His side to side quickness in short areas is that of a cornerback, which is just stupid, given his demeanor and way he plays the game. He plays the game with a lot of passion, which is a desirable trait. He is also very humble which is another positive quality, well, it definitely can't be a disaster negative so there is no personality issues is what I'm saying, which is underrated as everything could be right and that could fuck it up.

Deone Bucannon
Washington State

Height: 185 cm
Weight: 15 stone

Player comp: Brian Dawkins, Strong Safety

 ..... nothing special, just chilling