Same here Curly. Cisse has some size and is a willing tackler. That alone puts him ahead of Nixon and Valentine, who just aren't willing tacklers.
Agreed Amish, and I was surprised Cisse was still there at #52. There were only two CBs taken in the first round - very strange. Cisse checks a lot of boxes for the Packers at CB, including a willingness to tackle. That's something Nixon and Valentine don't "burden" themselves with......
Thanks for the reminder. In addition to being a willing tackler, he's bigger than the typical GB CB. He looks more like Bullard than Nixon/Valentine, and that just fine w/ me.
Agreed. And the bigger a guy is, the more likely it is he'll be a willing tackler - something Nixon and Valentine are NOT.
Tackling IS a huge part. And lot of the secondary players are not always up to it even though they cover well. Jaire Alexander was never the same after a hit he put on a Pittsburgh RB.
Good stuff milani. Yeah I think after JA was injured in Pittsburgh, he shied away from tackling - either consciously or instinctively. I just had my left shoulder replaced after 3 years of increasing pain. It's absolutely fine now, but I still instinctively do things to protect it in and out of the gym. (And no, I'm not comparing myself to an NFL athlete. I wouldn't want to tackle anyone in the NFL either. My point is that a shoulder injury just sticks with a person because of how destabilizing it is.)
Jaire came back for the 49er playoff game. On that last SF drive he shied away from a tackle on a run play that went for a 1st down enabling Robbie Gold to kick the winner.
I had an anatomical TSR last August. So we're both familiar with the recovery process, and how careful a patient has to be while rehabbing. I had both knees done and the recovery was a lot "easier" (no joint replacement is ever easy). The shoulder moves in an infinite number of directions, or almost infinite. And the "socket" in the shoulder joint is a ball, and what can bset be described as a shallow dish for a socket.
Coffin is because am old. Not saving myself to make the team. Reverse is done nowadays with seniors. The rotator cuff was torn apart from a fall. The shoulder popped out 2 additional times within a week for no traumatic reason. MRI revealed what XRays did not. That the shoulder was broken on contact from the fall at the cup and thus the socket could no longer hold the arm in place no matter how the rotator was repaired. Finishing the last of my 24 sessions of therapy in the next 2 weeks. But if they get me to 80-85% of where I was that would be considered successful. There will be some permanent disability such as reaching under and behind the back due to the change in anatomy.
That's a long road milani. Good for you for having what it takes to make a solid recovery. When I hear people complain that they feel worse than before the surgery, they aren't doing the work.
Sounds like you went through hell. I do not believe I could take what you experienced. I do not want them tearing into my knees or hips even if they short change my quality of life. At least I am glad this happened late in life. Had this happened in my prime it would have ruined most everything. I had a bankart repair in 1971 of the other shoulder. That was more painful and invasive but the shoulder did not break. It took years but it healed to about 95%. And I was able to play tennis actively for over 40 years. At this stage of the game I am content with moderate physical activity and being able to keep the heart and lungs performing. When I go to Lambeau I pride myself in parking West of the stadium and making the healthy trip on foot to the gate. I hope I can continue for several years to come.
You mention keeping your heart and lungs healthy. I think this is one thing a lot of guys our age overlook. They're convinced that the "manly" way to fitness is through lifting or other resistance exercises.
Agreed and love the pick. The CB group has a number of weaknesses, with tackling topping my list. Cisse is young but has all the other tools to make a legit run at starting.
You have great patience and perseverance. Science can keep people alive from 90 to 100 a lot more than decades ago simply because they keep the heart and lungs functioning. And it has made tremendous progress in controlling diabetes and high blood pressure. The big Achilles is still cancer. Lung, pancreas, prostate, colon, and breast. However, the pre-screening has saved many lives. I had prostate cancer a while back and am now cancer free for 11 years.
Thanks milani. Maybe I'm being too cocky here, but I expect and look forward to living well into my 90s. I like life (most days!). And I realize that what started out as a hobby (running, marathons, other foot races) has now become a way of life (cardio-vascular maintenance).
Not to pee in your wheeties, but one of my friends in our subdivision was an Olympic swimmer and coach of the Georgia female swim team, in AMAZING shape, with no bad habits at all. Fell face over dead on the treadmill at the gym in his early 40's.
That can happen, but is not the norm. Jim Fixx, the marathon runner, went down at 52, even though he had transformed himself. But his family history of heart disease and his prior smoking and obesity from decades earlier had already done some damage.
Yeah that stuff happens Suds. I still like my odds, but also live each day fully. Cause ya never know.
Fixx died of a heart attack at 52 after running. His family had a history of heart disease. At age 35 he was an overweight heavy smoker. He turned it around, however, genetics and past history can come to collect. And it did.
