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Demar Hamlin might just be the heir apparent to Poyer
Demar Hamlin might just be the heir apparent to Poyer
He's very active today. Seeminingly always around the ball.
The hit on pickett might be a bit late but he was coming at full speed and avoided hitting him in any significant part of the body, which is the why the ref said legal.
I know his Mom was attendance whereas his Dad is back in Pittsburgh doing youth coaching/training.
Re: Demar Hamlin might just be the heir apparent to Poyer
I would say our backup secondary would start on most nfl teams, but its hard to believe that 6th round picks and UDFA guys are that good. We just have unbelievable coaching and a scheme that works so well for them. Aside from Elam, i believe our next highest pick was a 5th round pick, and Elam might be the weak link lol
Not here to be right, just here to have interesting discussions about my impulsive opinions
He got away with that dirty hit. I liked how our guys protected him after the punk lineman slammed him then ran for his life
The
Hit
Was
LEGAL
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He got away with that dirty hit. I liked how our guys protected him after the punk lineman slammed him then ran for his life
Pickett has a history of fake slides. The most famous one is the Wake Forest game where he faked slide then kept running for a 58 yard TD run. I'm sure BOTH Jackson and Hamlin remeber that game.
Re: Demar Hamlin might just be the heir apparent to Poyer
That Hamlin play is the type that always bothers me. Yes, Hamlin hit Pickett after Pickett started the slide, but, Hamlin committed to the hit BEFORE Pickett started the slide. He’s a 200 lb pro athlete running full speed. He can’t just stop or change directions on a dime. Hamlin made the decision first.
That being said, the NFL is horribly inconsistent in those calls. Brady would get the call every single time, meanwhile the no name QB’s we had back then would never get the call. If some backup DB for Pitt did that to Allen, we’d probably get the call. The NFL definitely plays favorites in how they administer thst call. Right now, we are one of the favorites. But there was a long time where we weren’t the favorites and thst call went against us every time. And the NFL is cyclical so at some point, that time will come again. The league needs to fix it.
Re: Demar Hamlin might just be the heir apparent to Poyer
Bang bang play.
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Hamlins' hit on Pickett is a prime example of the NFL not really giving a crap about player safety.
They talk a big game when it comes to it, but they don't enforce their player safety rules.
If that hit was done in college, Hamlin would have been ejected for targeting.
That would not have been targeting. He doesn't hit him in the head and Hamlin's helmet doesn't make forceable contact. The only thing that could have been called is a late hit on a player giving themselves up and that was close enough that they ate the flag. They probably should have called that.
Re: Demar Hamlin might just be the heir apparent to Poyer
I see Hamlin as Hyde's replacement, as he is now. Hyde will be 32 on New Year's Day and will be coming off a neck injury/surgery next season. Not a good combo. And I don't know if he's necessarily interchangeable with Poyer's position. But they will have to find a replacement for Poyer also.
Re: Demar Hamlin might just be the heir apparent to Poyer
I'm pretty sure prior to Hyde's injury, Joquan Johnson is listed as his backup while Hamlin is Poyer's backup. In Miami's game, both played obviously because Poyer could not go. Then when Poyer was back for the Ravens game, it is Hamlin got the start, not Johnson.
I don't think Hamlin has the ball skills of Hyde, may not even at Poyer's level. But he's well rounded in blitzing skills, hitting, and pursuing angles. For the 3 games he played so far, I'm little surprised by his display of instincts (maybe the result of film studies) to be around the ball a lot. He's only in his 2nd year here and is already jumping over Johnson who is in his 4th year.
A little fun fact of Dane Jackson's ball skills. You know why? Jackson played QB in high school (Cornell and then Quacker Valley), and some WR as well. When he went to Pitt, he was actually recruited as a WR before converting to CB. You see a little of QB mind when he baited Stafford into an INT in the season openner, and he has shown he got hands for INT in the pros.
Re: Demar Hamlin might just be the heir apparent to Poyer
If you want to evaluate Hamlin’s hit then just ask yourself if you would be outraged if the same hit was delivered to Allen. If the answer is yes, which it would be for 99.999% of this fan base, then you have your answer on how clean/dirty the hit was.
The whole ‘well Pickett has a history of fake slides’ is a pretty ridiculous standard to try and shove forth. The hit was rather dirty, we’re lucky we didn’t get flagged. I don’t think it was an intentional dirty hit, it just happened.
Not a huge deal that requires a constitutional level defense just because he wears a Bills jersey.
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