Looking at safety; what about Jason Brown; Pat White?

I don’t get this apparently common wisdom saying we need secondary help either. Walker has us looking for a safety, even. With Chinedum, Marvin, Chris Crocker- assuming we resign him, and Corey Lynch, we can let Dexter walk and still have what could be a tremendous group there. I suppose it’s possible that Zimmer et al aren’t confident in JonJo’s durability- or in Castile or Fletcher’s ability to fill in but I’ve seen some mocks that have us taking Malcolm Jenkins at 6. Maybe JonJo is hurt worse than we know. Go figure.

Am I mistaken in thinking that. though Jason Brown can fill in in a pinch, he’s not a true center? If so, then there isn’t much point to paying him big dollars to do what Bobbie can already do. Now, if he could come in here and be a starting center, I’d consider it. Frankly, I’d rather have Bart Scott.

I’m wondering whether Pat White’s performance at the combine may have him moving too far up the draft board for a team not sure what they’d do with him. In the right OC’s hands, he could be Steve Slaton with the threat of a pass option, a Ronnie Brown/Wildcat direct snaptaker who isn’t just playing at quarterbacking, or a DeSean Jackson/Peter Warrick type gamebreaking small receiver. All that in addition to being a legitimate backup QB. I’m not sure I trust him in Brat’s hands but I’d like to see him in stripes. I think most of us agree that pick 38 must go on a center- whether Mack, Wood, or Unger there. We might be able to risk waiting til 70 for Caldwell or Luigs but I doubt it. Pat White will go as early as late first and no later than mid 2nd, I’d guess, so we’d have to have acquired some extra picks up there in order to nab him.

Character schmaracter. Football is brutal and so are some of it’s participants. So long as their off the filed behavior doesn’t result in their missing work, I could care less. You want Boy Scouts and respectability, dial in the Golf Channel and send me your season tickets.

I think the spread offense hurts a lot of potential NFL players. QB’s aren’t used to making the deep or crossfiled throws that require a lot of arm- see Graham Harrell, WRs aren’t actually running pro style routes and have to learn them new in the big league, the OL is so spread out, they don’t do any power runblocking or pulling, and the defenses- the linemen in particular, don’t get to face the serious congestion that takes place when NFL lines engage at the point of attack. However, the spread is the fastest way possible for a collegiate offense to become potent without the most elite athletes under scholarship.

Saturday is smaller than Ghiacuic. Enough said.

Peter King has apparently never heard of either beltways or the geography of the midwestern United States.

On the NFL Network yesterday, Warren Sapp was talking about workout warriors as Georgia Tech’s physical specimen, Michael Johnson ran his forty. Someone brought up former tOSU and current Jet, Vernon Gholston, as another example, and Sapp said, “Vernon just doesn’t like contact.” Ouch.