In my earlier contribution to the thread I suggested we hamper expectations, I provided his highlight video and brought attention to a certain attempt where he forced his way into the endzone. He did in fact make it in but it wasn't because he forced his way in but because contact was made 1 yard inside the goal line and he was crumpled once that contact was made. Same thing happened in last nights preseason game (8/10/18) on our kick return when he had a full head of steam. He was arm tackled up high and it it looked like a WWE clothesline. After watching him play in some semi-meaningful game play I came away quite impressed with his speed obviously, but his vision and decision making impressed. If he could add 20lbs onto his frame (not this season of course) and be coached up to be a bit more elusive and patient, we might just have the next Kamara-lite. Great debut for the kid, he needs to work on some thing and I hope he's not doing PR but I think we found something here.
Catching punts is really hard. You can either do it or you cannot. Pacman Jones could catch 6 punts in a row, holding on to each football while catching the next. Literally could catch the 6th punt with 5 footballs in his arms. I was a punt and kick returner in HS, kicks were easy, punts less so. Not analogous but I get it. Some guys just can’t do it.
Not ready to give up on him yet. The fumble on the kickoff return was a pretty clear penalty on the Giants that the refs conveniently "missed"
Im expecting to see him make people miss in the open field. Thought he would have the ability to at least make the first man miss in open space. Seems like the game is too big for him.
Tackling someone near the neck from the front is not a clothesline tackle - that is when a player extends his arm away from his body and parallel to the playing field, which didn't happen on that play. I saw nothing illegal in that hit.
Trenton Cannon as we all know has been very disappointing on special teams with two muffed punts and a fumbled kickoff (rookie mistakes?)... But he's looked really good when on offense as an RB coming out of the backfield. 16 rushes for 63 yards (3.9 yards per carry) and 7 receptions off of 8 targets (.875%) for 35 receiving yards (5.0 yards per reception) and more importantly, 0 fumbles throughout his two games played. Imo he's definitely worth keeping on our roster with Elijah McGuire currently injured. Preseason game 4 @ Philadelphia will be a big game for him all around.
I'm guessing PS if West is healthy(Concussion). He has worse hands than Jalin Marshall. Only plus side to him is he has a burst, but that burst doesn't do much good if the ball isn't in your hands.
You have to play well on ST in order to stick and this kid really did noting positive in that regard, at all... I still think with his speed they will keep him around in some capacity.
