Sigh, I strictly have stated it’s been based on his film. Yes, speed is the name of the game, the game speeds up everytime you move to the next level. Willie Williams couldn’t stay out of trouble, don’t see how his name is relevant. We have witnessed the dark ages of Miami football since 2004 and this happens time and time again, it started with the likes of Cook, and so on and on. Once again, I want to be wrong about Flagg, I want him to be a beast, because I’m concerned about our recruiting at the position since that 2016 class.
People only hating on this kid cause he’s OOS, if he was a local kid with his production & same film would be praising the kid non stop. I can see it now “look at the numbers he put up in South Florida” he’s slept on, what’s wrong with the recruiting services. Talking like Texas football is some slouch, doesn’t he play in the highest classification as well lol
The name of the game here is speed. Flagg appears to have a knack for being a hard hitter, has very good instincts, and is tasked with being the leader of the defense. This along with ability to play in space and not just be a down hill player, and playing in coverage would be things I look for. Flagg checks a bunch of those boxes because he is a great, not good HS player, the problem though is that he looks slow on film and there is concern whether or not that will allow him to translate his game to the next level. Once again, I hope Im wrong but we have seen this story before. Ray Lewis III put up big numbers at his little school but it didnt translate. Dallas Crawford had how many INTs his junior and senior year but he wasn't rangy enough to play safety here. Kevin Nelson talked like he was gonna be an all time great and had great stats in HS, well he wasn't very good despite that. The first guy I mentioned broke records in Dade county, the Mecca of HS football but ultimately was a complete JAG when he got to Miami.
Back in the '80's Houston was identified in a very good article as one of the top half-dozen areas in the country for football talent. Of course, along with South Florida. That was thirty years ago but I doubt it's changed much.6A Division 1 in Metro Houston
Back in the '80's Houston was identified in a very good article as one of the top half-dozen areas in the country for football talent. Of course, along with South Florida. That was thirty years ago but I doubt it's changed much.
Using Ray Lewis III as a comp to Flagg, who is playing against some of the best competition in the country makes zero sense, no offense.
The truth is you only seem to look at star rating, that's it. You're not seeing past it, even if he's right there on your TV.
I remember you were high on McCluster, who runs a 5.1 40. So this "speed is the name of the game" stuff is just pretty amusing
he has stated he knows he needs to work on speed. kid might have a chip on his shoulder because local schools havent been on top of him.Yep and as I said the poster looked as his jr film. For those that saw him last night as a SR! He looks fast and bigger. I expect him to continue to get bigger and FASTER when he gets to our SC.
If I recall Charlie also tore up his knee at the beginning of his Senior year (I was a freshman at South Dade then), he wasn't the same after that.I went to high school when Jones was there thought he got beat out for the record by some other kid been years so memory could be wrong I will tell you this when I found out he was coming here I knew he wouldn’t live up to his star rating he was babied by the couching staff at south dade couldn’t even hit him in practice to much because he would break always walked around with some kind of injury unless it was his way of not to practice But who knows He did have a bad thick redbone girlfriend back then so I don’t blame him for not wanting to be in practice or class
One thing that really stands out is that he analyzes the play in a nanosecond. Seriously, the kid definitely has a seriously high FB IQ.