Tannenbaum At Work -- Garner Signs

Section 227. Row 5 · Jun 4, 2008

flgreen said: ↑

He lasted till the 7th for a couple of reasons.

He was only a one year starter. He is very slow. Limited pass blocking.

There is actually tons of film on him. Not really on him, but on McFadden, and Felix Jones. He is in almost all of them. It seems they ran to the right side about 80% of the time. He appears to be excellent at the point of attack. Pancakes a lot of people.

Watch some of McFadden's and Jones' clips, but don't watch them.

The kid seems to have a lot of potential, but he is a project. Much along the line of Bender.
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This post makes the most amount of sense to me in terms of why Garner lasted until the 7th round.

If flgreen has truly watched the clips of McFadden and Jones, then some of these descriptions satisfy my curiosity and I'm feeling pretty positive about his development. Not sure I like the part about "slow" and "limited pass blocking," but I like the pancaking part.

I'm sure we'll see more in TC and let's hope he's fast learner. Not sure you can fix "slow" in TC though.

flgreen · Jun 4, 2008

GSourJr said: ↑

I agree and don't understand why this post is being criticized...it's Jets "news" which is of higher value than Jets "speculation" which is what we get when the team is not at work. If people don't find the post interesting, all they have to do is ignore it. There's nothing less interesting than criticism of an "uninteresting" post.

Back to the top at hand, the signing of Garner, which I find to be very interesting...

I'm not sold on Damien Woody, much as I want to believe he will be an upgrade over Clement. I really want to Garner come in and take over the spot at some point during the season so that we can continue to build a young line that will grow together over time.

Another thing to remember, a 7th round pick is not the dregs of college ball (remember, the NFL used to go 14 or 15 rounds with their draft). Mr. Irrelevant is the 224th best player in the collegiate ranks. And there are 22 positions on the field (not counting special teams.) I don't know the break out of the 2008 draft by positions, but we can speculate that there are an average of 10 players drafted at each of the 22 positions, so at worst, Nate Garner might be the 10th best tackle in the country.
Even if he was the 20th tackle taken, that's still 20th out of approximately 400 starting tackles in Division 1 football? (115 D1 programs x two tackles per line). That's not counting decent prospects that come out of 1AA, 2 and even 3 programs every year).

Statistically speaking, we should expect that a 7th rounder will come in and be a starter.
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Not so sure about that,

Without going and looking I believe there were 8 OT's taken in the first round alone.

Still like the pick, and think he is good value in the 7th

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