2012 NFL Draft Day 3

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Originally Posted by Dirtbag59

muahahahah! Pardon my french but I ****ing love it.

Cornerback is always such a safe pick because it's really an easy job where unless you're playing the Lions you're really only involved in 4 or 5 plays a game. Plus we've spent most of the last few years drafting safeties and corners. Time to get guys that play up front, guys that get after the passer and block the guys that go after the passers.

I disagree. Cornerback is actually one of the physically most difficult jobs to have in the NFL. You are the smallest on the field. You are expected to run BACKWARDS with world class sprinters (WRs) who are running forward and you have to stay with them wherever they go. You can't touch him after 5 yards. If the WR is on a fly pattern and you do touch the WR (who is taller than you) then that is a 60 yard penalty at the spot of the foul.

If you cover him all day then the qb won't look your way and no one will remember you -until the one time you screw up and get beat.

if you are in man coverage and it is a run play you have to hear the "RUN!" call and leave your man, turn around, shed a block of a lineman that is twice your size and make an open field tackle on a RB who is also bigger than you. Again, if you are able to do all of that people won't notice you until you screw up.