Even though I still believe he should have been converted to safety, here's to a great season working in tandem with Bishop Sankey in the Titans' backfield.
Happy 26th birthday to Jake Locker
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PostGameOrangeSlices
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He'd be an all-pro safety. Or not.
either way blah blah fucking blah
either way blah blah fucking blah
This post is Nebraska fan classy
DugtheDoog
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Does he have a brother named Jack?
I never thought Locker was a great QB, although he was always misused. I never really understood the safety argument though. If you get picked 8th playing QB, you are in the right spot. A backup QB in the NFL makes a couple million. A back up safety plays for the league minimum.
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That discounts the idea that maybe he flourishes as a safety and makes big time money in a second contract. What about you? Would you rather be mediocre and make a huge payday, or take a chance on playing your natural position for a chance at greatness and big paychecks later on?
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He'd be Taylor Mays at BEST. How many pro bowl white safeties are there in the NFL? I'll be waiting.
GrundleStiltzkin
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Sadly, agree.
Now go crash your float plane into a cannibal pygmy village.
Based on what? My speculation is based on the phenomenal athlete we saw in 2007, when he ran out there and didn't have to think and could play rat ball. Former pro athletes were claiming he would win 2 Heismans. As a safety, he would have been a much better fit and wouldn't have gotten bogged down with the mental aspect of the game.
The expectations for Jake were always ridiculous. He's a hell of an athlete, but he's really not that crazy of an athlete compared to other guys in the NFL. At the combine, he ran a 4.59. That's not that good for a safety, and many LB's in the NFL are that fast. His athleticism stood out as a QB. I'm not sure it would stand out as much at another position.
We've been over this before, but who is playing QB instead of him? Bonnell and Fouch sucked. The only viable option was Price as a R-Fr and by that point there was no way Locker was coming out.
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PostGameOrangeSlices
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And Ty never really used him as Oregon uses their mobile QB's either
Ty and Lappano basically had Locker play rat ball like Derek said. Run around to buy time to find someone get open or try and get upfield. It looked like there was no structure at all. Sark tried to make Locker a pro style QB and took away his biggest strength which was running the football. Locker was thinking way too much under Sark. He succeeded when you consider Locker was picked 8th, but Locker's actual production sucked.
He was never used right. He should have been a poor man's Cam Newton. At Oregon, he might have even had Cam Newton type production. It's crazy to think what Locker could have done at Oregon when you consider Masoli and Darron Thomas were succeeding. I know some of the Oregon fans hold Thomas in high regard, but he fucking sucks. I watched him play arena while working out a couple weeks back and he's terrible.
PostGameOrangeSlices
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Pretty on point with the "rat ball" description.
For being a dual-threat QB, Locker had the least amount of designed runs called for him out of any fucking mobile QB in NCAA history. Ever.
It's a travesty how many good players have been misused at UW this past decade.
TierbsHsotBoobs
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TierbsHsotBoobs
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When you've had several different coaches and you still aren't improving, is it really a coaching problem?
