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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mondio" data-source="post: 776064" data-attributes="member: 10441">In my admittedly small sample size of one replayed game on an over the air sports channel here, I was less than impressed with Derwin James in that game.  Maybe a fine pick and he had 2-3 decent plays in that replayed game.  The announcers couldn't stop gushing over him and what an impact he was going to have for some NFL team and to me he looked out of position and the only reason the play looked good was because he is an athlete going against a nobody in college.  On at least one of those plays his reaction and angle to the play was horrible, an NFL RB would have gone 40 yds for a TD.  But against the slow guy not going to the NFL, he barely made a shoe string tackle and it was "amazing".  anyway, I know it was 1 game, and not even a complete one at that.  I'm not making any written in stone bold statement, mostly just an observation that even subpar play is glorified for some of these guys especially once their names are known by most.  We see it every week in the NFL too, some guys can do no wrong, even when they do wrong right in front of us according to "experts" and announcers.</blockquote>

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