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Ed Reed co-sign leads to UM offer for Baltimore-area S David

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So what are we going to do when Ed Reed’s hand picked safety plays the hat game and goosing ours into the trash?
 
DMoney said:
This guy has unbelievable timing. You can tell why Reed likes him.
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This is part of what I mean by evaluations. He sure looks like a ball player to me. Why does it have to be Ed Reed to see this? I think half this board can see he’s got better instincts than most kids we look at, even if we can’t all explain why we think that. I don’t even know that this kid is special, but his tape sure highlights some of what we have been lacking all over.
 
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Rellyrell said:
Thank goodness for E Reed. This hire is, along w Lashlee is my sole reason for hope.

Like @Liberty City El said, EXPAND THE MAP. Yeah we’re known for keeping the top prospects home, but we became a national sensation b/c we expanded our map, poaching kids from The NY, IL, CA, TX, NJ, CN. There’s talent everywhere; the SEC and BIG been on DMV kids. Open up the checkbook & expand the resources. If So Fla not showing love, go find talent elsewhere.
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Well the only school in IL I’d want us to get kids from is East St Louis and that’s a throw away from St Louis. St Louis has a number of solid prospects every year so hit that area hard. **** getting kids from the Chicago area.
 
Mklein13 said:
Well the only school in IL I’d want us to get kids from is East St Louis and that’s a throw away from St Louis. St Louis has a number of solid prospects every year so hit that area hard. **** getting kids from the Chicago area.
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Chicago = Basketball. Football, not so much. Very rare does my city provide top notch football players. East St Louis, absolutely. Kansas is another area that provides some gems
 
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Well the kid just got offered by hof’er.
Im assuming he’s about to get a lot of attention. Schools are gonna go all in trying to snag this kid just on principle to say that not even Ed Reed can get kids to Miami. Visit or not if you just got offered by Ed Reed and he spoke to you on the phone then your *** better be on commit watch.
 
Ethnicsands said:
This is part of what I mean by evaluations. He sure looks like a ball player to me. Why does it have to be Ed Reed to see this? I think half this board can see he’s got better instincts than most kids we look at, even if we can’t all explain why we think that. I don’t even know that this kid is special, but his tape sure highlights some of what we have been lacking all over.
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There are still boxes that need to be checked. If COVID eliminates the Opening combines, you don’t have verified measurables. So if we’re still in on this kid, we should to fly to Baltimore and get an in-person evaluation. The scheduling could be tricky without spring practice.

You also need to do some due diligence on character since we are on foreign territory. Eddie Johnson looked like the steal of the year on tape. Not saying this kid has any issues, but that is part of the vetting process with kids like this.
 
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DMoney said:
There are still boxes that need to be checked. If COVID eliminates the Opening combines, you don’t have verified measurables. So if we’re still in on this kid, we should to fly to Baltimore and get an in-person evaluation. The scheduling could be tricky without spring practice.

You also need to do some due diligence on character since we are on foreign territory. Eddie Johnson looked like the steal of the year on tape. Not saying this kid has any issues, but that is part of the vetting process with kids like this.
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I agree with all that. Just noting what's evident from that video is a quality that is really important, and that has been sorely, sorely missing in our recruiting evals for ... 18 years?

The character point is surely important also. Both re getting in and staying in. Golden signed a bunch of kids who were good prospects other than that topic. But then Titanic's maiden voyage was pretty good other than the iceberg. One kid here or there, it's on the kid. Pattern and it's on the evaluator.

Safety, particularly, is about instincts (and that includes timing as you note). Dorito wasn't wrong in that old video regarding the position, just wrong about the kid he was looking at. Reed and Taylor had terrific feel for the offense and timing on the ball and on how plays developed. That's a lot of what made them special.
 
DMoney said:
This guy has unbelievable timing. You can tell why Reed likes him.
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What you call timing is what I'd call feel for the game, for the offense, for the play, for the players around him. It shows up as timing. But the inputs are his understanding of what's going on around him. He's thinking forward, not reacting. And you can absolutely see it in the film. Doesn't mean he has the speed, or doesn't have other flaws. Just on this point, he looks like he is a 'baller' as they say. We've taken guys with good measurables and figured we could train them at this type of stuff for ages -- particularly at DB. It's far from clear you can teach that, though. Maybe refine it if it's there. But lack of feel for the game is a real limiter.
 
Rellyrell said:
Chicago = Basketball. Football, not so much. Very rare does my city provide top notch football players. East St Louis, absolutely. Kansas is another area that provides some gems
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Baseball provides some solid prospects. There's a kid from Mt Carmel on that Jackie Robinson team that cheated in the Little League World Series in 2014 that's supposed to go top 15 in this years draft. But yea the city and suburban schools have an occasional solid prospect. Simeon and Phillips have some studs come out from the city and then Nazareth has JJ McCarthy who is a 5 star qb committed to Michigan.
 
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Ethnicsands said:
What you call timing is what I'd call feel for the game, for the offense, for the play, for the players around him. It shows up as timing. But the inputs are his understanding of what's going on around him. He's thinking forward, not reacting. And you can absolutely see it in the film. Doesn't mean he has the speed, or doesn't have other flaws. Just on this point, he looks like he is a 'baller' as they say. We've taken guys with good measurables and figured we could train them at this type of stuff for ages -- particularly at DB. It's far from clear you can teach that, though. Maybe refine it if it's there. But lack of feel for the game is a real limiter.
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No doubt, it's the same thing that made Ed Reed great. It could be a sign of preparation, which would be promising in projecting David to the next level.

Our safety evaluation hasn't been horrible. Rayshawn Jenkins is a three-star turned NFL starter, Deon Bush was good, Jamal Carter is in the NFL and JJ/Redwine was one of our better safety duos. The biggest problem is that the best local safeties have been signing with Bama, and that South Florida in general hasn't been producing a ton of studs at the position.
 
DMoney said:
No doubt, it's the same thing that made Ed Reed great. It could be a sign of preparation, which would be promising in projecting David to the next level.

Our safety evaluation hasn't been horrible. Rayshawn Jenkins is a three-star turned NFL starter, Deon Bush was good, Jamal Carter is in the NFL and JJ/Redwine was one of our better safety duos. The biggest problem is that the best local safeties have been signing with Bama, and that South Florida in general hasn't been producing a ton of studs at the position.
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Agreed. Half the board slanders Banda and while his recruiting hasn't been perfect, he's proven he can develop safeties and get them to stick the league. Really intrigued to see how Gurvan, Bolden, and Carter look this year. They all should take the next step mentally and be ready to rock and roll.
 
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