He is looking like he might be the next one. His hands are starting to remind me of Coop just a bit. Its a lot to live up to but if he continues going to get the ball with his hands and making the other teams best corner look bad. Well we will see.
Calvin Ridley & Amari Cooper Comparisons
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I still think it's too soon... Teams are going to start double teaming him.. and when that happens, and Ridley continues to shock us with his performances, then maybe we can talk about this. That's just me.
I am not saying Freshmen Ridley is as good as sophomore or junior Cooper but Freshman to Freshman its awful close right now.
I see both sides of the opinion. I find it hard to judge anyone against Cooper throwing out his work ethic and improvement year to year, which is what made him so great. You can do it, but it's painful to me because most players do not improve the way Cooper and Eddie Lacy did. But yes, Ridley has the fluidity and body control that resembles Cooper. When I first saw Cooper I thought of David Palmer, who I still believe is hands down the most fluid elusive player that we have every had. He was just too small for the NFL. Ridley has superstar potential.
Ridley now has 45 catches for 525 yards and 3 TDs, will probably end up with some pretty big numbers by years end.
If we were to run the table all the way to the championship game, thats 7 more games, Ridley could have better freshman stats than Cooper if he finishes the season strong.
It is kind of uncanny that Cooper and Ridley are both from roughly the same area of Florida and both are pretty similar in height and weight, now Ridley looks like he's taking Cooper's place as the new star receiver for Alabama.
If we were to run the table all the way to the championship game, thats 7 more games, Ridley could have better freshman stats than Cooper if he finishes the season strong.
It is kind of uncanny that Cooper and Ridley are both from roughly the same area of Florida and both are pretty similar in height and weight, now Ridley looks like he's taking Cooper's place as the new star receiver for Alabama.
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Maybe the play of Stewart can counter act that some, I hope so. We have a collection of young studs that are exciting to watch.
This is an old thread, but we lose tonight without a miracle catch by Adarius. A couple of more of those and teams are going to have a hard time deciding who to double...
Other than that INT Coker play pretty good, especially in the second half. We can't have the slow starts anymore though. We have way too much talent not to be throwing downfield.
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As GD said, they were taking that away. The problem was that we were not taking advantage, until late, what that automatically gave us. I don't really blame the one INT solely on #14. That was an outstanding scoop by the DB. That kind of crap happens...
It was a good play. I initially thought he dropped it. I'm glad they recognized what would work. When LSU comes calling we will need something like that a lot sooner. I see though, that Calvin can possibly still get his which is good for the other receivers.
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Certainly, as illustrated by the onscreen comparisons of Julio, Amari, and Calvin. Enough of he can't compare yet. I believe he was ahead of the other two.
How fortunate we are.
I sure hope we can get the ball to Calvin against LSU. If (big if) there was one blemish in Cooper's career, he never played well against LSU.
We just aren't getting the protection from the offensive line for down field throws.
Coop was hurt his freshman year. Didn't play the entire second half of that game.
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Yeah, that's why I hope the bye will help us. When he has time he picks the other teams' secondary apart. I remember Ridley being open a few times yesterday, but Coke was running for his life and couldn't set his feet.
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Cooper also had a more experienced/better corps of recievers during his run at Alabama. Norwood, C Jones, D White, K Bell were probably better options to make doubling him more likley to cost a defense.
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