Doc Walker One-on-One Interview with Vinny Cerrato

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

I am supposed to believe that Stephon Heyer is "unbeatable" if he can only get his technique down right?

If that is even close to correct, then Stephon Heyer must be as dumb as a sack of hammers if he knows what will make him "unbeatable" but can't bring himself to do it. Bending one's knees is not exactly a complex undertaking for most humans. In fact, most two year olds have that one mastered.

Don't waste a lot of time parsing the sentences here. Most of it off-season verbiage which is rarely if ever critically analytical.

Oh, and for the record, Doc Walker was the guy last year who was absolutely certain that Jason Taylor would be unstoppable because teams would have to pay special attention to Carter on the other side. During the off-season, Doc should put on a mini-skirt and brake out the pom-poms and do a little dancing...

It's a quick game.. if you've done any sport ever then you'd realize that proper technique is something that takes a lot of drilling as your body will try to go with instinct first and it realllly takes a lot of work to make 100% technique override your instinct... if this weren't the case, ANYBODY of his stature could be a starting lineman, but it's not...

[hooskins]

He also mentioned that Suisham is great inside the 40 but struggled outside the 40. Shaun apparently knows that and is working really hard to improve. VC also mentioned that Shaun did better with Frost as his holder instead of Brooks or Plack.

He didn't say it directly but he pretty much said Plack sucked.

[djnemo65]

Oh man, that picture of Cerrato that comes up when you play the podcast says it all...

[djnemo65]

Interesting to hear VC explain the selection of Devin Thomas over Eddie Royal in terms of team needs, claiming that since we already had smaller receivers in Moss and ARE that Thomas fit what we were trying to do more. That's fine, but when he then proceeded to take receivers with the next two picks didn't he justify it by saying that you take the best player available no matter what, and don't draft for need? Which one is it?

[hooskins]

landry, st, champ, rodgers, etc have alll been talented

[GTripp0012]

But not pro bowl talented like Portis, Sellers, Moss (in his prime), Samuels, and Cooley.

More of a prospective type of talent on defense.

[70Chip]

If the defense stays at its current level and the offense improves to say 19 points a game, how many wins does that add up to. I bet that would be 10 or 11 wins. If the offense could get to 23 points per, I think you might win 12 games with last year's defense. I like a defense that doesn't give up more than 25 points in any game all year.

[Son Of Man]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

But not pro bowl talented like Portis, Sellers, Moss (in his prime), Samuels, and Cooley.

More of a prospective type of talent on defense.

Sean Taylor *RIP*-5th overall pick (HOF potential), Laron Landry-6th overall pick (Pro-Bowl potential), Champ Bailey *traded*-7th overall pick (future HOF), London Fletcher (Pro-Bowl snubbed), DeAngelo Hall-7th overall pick (2 time Pro-Bowler), Carlos Rogers-9th overall pick (????), etc......

I think that's sure fire talent on defense, and I didn't even mention Haynesworth!

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Son Of Man

Sean Taylor *RIP*-5th overall pick (HOF potential), Laron Landry-6th overall pick (Pro-Bowl potential), Champ Bailey *traded*-7th overall pick (future HOF), London Fletcher (Pro-Bowl snubbed), DeAngelo Hall-7th overall pick (2 time Pro-Bowler), Carlos Rogers-9th overall pick (????), etc......

I think that's sure fire talent on defense, and I didn't even mention Haynesworth!

Right but you also included people who weren't on the team last year, and in one case, haven't been on the team in the last five years.

Rogers and Fletcher are established talent on defense, but not in the same way that the superstars of Portis, Cooley, Moss, and Samuels are respected by other teams. Then you have the young 25 year old potential of Hall, Blades, Landry, Montgomery, and Horton, who are a big part of our defense, but only if their best days are in fact in front of them.

The only point was that the established talent, the easily recognizable names, are on the offensive end for us, while the defense is very talented, but because it has fewer holes, more young talent, and less big names.

[Monkeydad]

Regarding Hall, I heard an interview on Sporting News Radio last week with him. He REALLY sounds like he has grown up and will be a solid player for us for years to come.

He made the comment, that IS true..."he's had to deal with more craziness in his career than anyone else he knows." He played with the dog-killed, then had a college coach who came in and failed miserably only to quit on the team...then he played under Al Davis.

A Raiders fan I work with keeps telling me I do not want a part of Hall on my team, but I really don't see it. Hall came in last year and changed the secondary for the better for 8 games. I see no signs of him wanting to give that work ethic up. He seems genuinely grateful to be a Redskin.