Link: Eddie Jackson Becomes The Highest Paid CB In The NFL

[RollTide_HTTR]

NFL scouts sometimes act like the prospect will be the only player on the football field. Yeah, of course they’re good at some things and not others. That stuff isn’t real scouting...that is just message board smack with some truth in it. The point with evaluating players is having a dispassionate understanding of what they can and cannot do and whether those things can work within your scheme.

I’m sure the Bears looked at it like: “he’s not a safety that will be a plus in run support but our scheme and personnel does not need that as much as they need ballhawks who can run down bad balls forced by front line pressure.”

It's the one thing that makes the patriots the patriots IMO. No one is better at taking a guy who is really good at one thing and just making them do that over and over again while minimizing the need to make them do things they are bad at.

 

[CoolBreeze]

Love me some Eddie Jackson. Dude is a big play machine. Glad he got paid!

 

[CrimsonTheory]

Love it for both the Bears and Eddie but it also means HaHa is probably gone.

 

[WishIwasInBama]

I don't care what anyone says, Bama doesn't lose to Clemson if Eddie Jackson had not have gotten hurt.

 

[Con]

I swear NFL scouts are some of the dumbest people on the planet, or the biggest trolls.

When I read what @TIDE-HSV posted I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how this guy has a job if he can't see talent better than that. Maybe he is from a franchise that is consistently picking in the top 5 every year.

 

[rgw]

In the same draft Mitch Scrubinsky went before these QBs who I’m sure never amounted to anything in the NFL:

• Patrick Mahomes
• Deshaun Watson
• Lamar Jackson

I’ll give you Mahomes. You needed to watch him play to realize he was playing on just an abysmal team and just how magical he was with a football in his hands. I even kinda understand the concerns about Jackson but for now they appear to be invalid. But how in God’s name do you draft this 1-year starting scrub from North Carolina above Deshaun FREAKIN Watson?

 

[B1GTide]

In the same draft Mitch Scrubinsky went before these QBs who I’m sure never amounted to anything in the NFL:

• Patrick Mahomes
• Deshaun Watson
• Lamar Jackson

I’ll give you Mahomes. You needed to watch him play to realize he was playing on just an abysmal team and just how magical he was with a football in his hands. I even kinda understand the concerns about Jackson but for now they appear to be invalid. But how in God’s name do you draft this 1-year starting scrub from North Carolina about Deshaun FREAKIN Watson?

Not only was he drafted earlier - they traded up to get him.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Not only was he drafted earlier - they traded up to get him.

No one: we are planning to draft Mitch Trubinksy

Bears: Lee Roy Jenkins!!!!!!

 

[bamacon]

That is awesome. Congrats Eddie!!! John Fox knew what he had in Eddie early on.

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I went back and read some old articles from Chicago when he was drafted. They kept including him on the list as one of the biggest draft busts ever. Not sure why other than that was the same class that saw Kevin White taken 7th. Now he was a BUST!!! EDDIE was that diamond in the rough.

 

[TIDEnGA]

And that's why I got him to sign my #4 jersey before he left. I knew he'd be a star!

#Playfor4

 

[78Alum]

Congrats, Eddie! No one deserves this more than you! Roll Tide!

 

[ccc2259]

Super happy for Eddie. I recall chuckling at Coach getting on Eddie in some TV broadcast during his freshman season.....it's terrific to see how far he's come.

 

[Mystical]

We have a couple more backs that made the All Pro team. Minkah and Marlon.

 

[teamplayer]

Not only was he drafted earlier - they traded up to get him.

Yeah, it makes me laugh every year when people talk about how smart these GMs and front office folks are in the NFL when it comes to talent evaluation. So many of them fall in love with random guys or draft based on potential because they are so afraid of missing the next Brady. I'm guessing many of them have their jobs because of connections and/or family names. It's the same in every business.