Morris is a pretty good athlete. He's no Blake Sims, but more mobile than GMac or AJ. He's a big strong guy too.
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Go back and look at Blake Barnett's high school highlights. He has some serious wheels. I agree that he may not have the elusiveness or cutting ability as Sims, but he has the ability to extend plays and burn defenses with his speed. Oregon wanted him for a good reason. I know that some worry that he is too light right now, but Johnny Football was 5'11.75 and 190 as a freshman coming out of high school. Barnett is now 6-foot-5 Barnett is up to 208 pounds.
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I'm not a Skip Bayless hater but I recall that he picked against Alabama in every national championship game, he picked Texas, LSU, and Notre Dame. Guess that kind of fits his modus operandi..
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He picked Texas because he is a big 12 guy
He picked lsu because he had consistently doubted AJ. He was right on the 11/5 game, but was wrong on 1/9. Again he came back and said he was thoroughly amazed by aj redeeming himself. And congratulated him
The Norte dame pick was more of a joke kinda like his auburn 2013 pick.
College football isn't really his big thing, and him and Stephen A actually acknowledge that. Skip's big thing is nba and nfl. Watch some of his analysis on those two sports and it's a night and day's difference.
The Notre Dame pick wasn't a joke. He said that Everett Golson would make one more play than AJ and that Notre Dame was the team of destiny.
I've been watching that show since it used to be cold pizza (2007ish?)with Woody Paige and Skip Bayless where they only did a few segments during the show i.e. 1st down, 2nd down etc. It slowly morphed into the Skip Bayless show. Biggest problem with the show is there really isn't enough sports news to talk about for 4 hours everyday so they have to psycho-analyze sports stories that aren't even really worth talking about..
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We are talking about Barnett's running ability.The fact Manziel redshirted has nothing to do with Blake Barnett. Every QB is different. Did Manziel start at A&M early as Barnett? Did he know the offense well enough? I wasn't comparing Manziel's ability to Barnett's. I was using Manziel as an example that you don't have to be a hulking physical specimen to be a running QB. I doubt Manziel's work habits rises to Barnett's. Barnett is now 6-foot-5 and up to 208 pounds. He says he expects to play at 212-215. I don't believe he is as good as a runner as Sims, but the guy can run.
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Um, have you forgotten that Sims played RB and was a pretty decent one? I haven't seen anything on earth from BB's HS videos or what little we seen here which would hint that he had Sims' RB-type running ability. Matt Jones had blazing straight line speed, so they made him into an WR in the NFL. BB doesn't have RB elusiveness and vision, a la Manziel, and Sims is not a fair comparison for him...
I tend to see more Andrew Luck than Manziel or Sims in Barnett. Given his natural arm talent, the potential to grow into a pretty big guy (6-5, 220-30ish), good wheels for a pass-first QB, and his relative polish as a passer for a true freshman...I think that is the better fit for a comparison. Of course, Andrew Luck is competitive as heck and a quick learner/smart guy...those are the qualities you can't really project with Barnett right now. Luck redshirted too...and he wasn't at some talent-rich program either.
Maybe he wasn't joking, I really can't remember because May vs holtz was a more entertaining confrontation in the nd vs bama matchup. But I do know skip in 12 and 13 often picked against bama just for the heck of it and really didn't put much into it to make you feel he was serious. The point I'm trying to make is that skip gives some odd predictions but it usually has some relevant facts, and if he is wrong he admits it and moves on. Galloway and kannel will keep at a point even when they are dead wrong and have little relevant facts to back it up.
As for first take as a whole... It's entertaining when they are talking nfl and nba, but it's not so good when they are talking about anything else. To each their own though
40 times in the nfl combine and high school are on a totally different scale. High school 40 times are nowhere near as accurate. Blake had some pretty good wheels. an NFL run in the 4.5's is pretty good wheels especially for a QB.
Most of the time I'd agree, but he was clocked at the Nike Sparq combine which is using just as good of technology as anywhere else.
That said, Barnett is fast but not in a BS kind of way.
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Blake was quick. Barnett may have the linear speed but Blake was quick to start and stop. I don't see Barnett being quick the way Blake was.
Sims was fast, quick and had uncanny ability to escape rushers (like trying to catch a rabbit). Sometimes it was as if he had eyes in the back of his head too.
Agree, don't think Barnett would've been able to make that run that Sims did against Texas am. Though I would love to be wrong on that.
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Barnett could've easily made that run. He just wouldn't have had to juke the second guy because he would have already been passed him. Barnett is a long strider and deceptively fast, kind of like Henry. Doesn't seem like he's running that fast but no one can catch him..
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40 times are quite over used. As it's stated above, it doesn't capture your ability to cut and redirect, nor does it capture your ability to get up to top speed faster than a defensive player. Note how Manziel's 40 times weren't earth shattering, but we almost never caught him in the open field when we played A&M as he was so good at changing direction.
I think they've just been mixing reps for all the db's. Every time they mention a "base" defense he seems to be one of the CB's.
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