Quote:The whole team was bad last year, offensively and defensively. You can't sit here and tell me that this side of the ball, or that side of the ball looked good after we finished 3 - 13. Our team is very young, we just recently added some oldheads on defense and that's about it. It takes time. Good teams aren't built over night.


We may have a ballhawker on our roster now. Cyprien and Evans with a year out of the way could develop really well during their sophmore runs. We still need a pass rusher though. That's the biggest variable in anybody being a ballhawk in this secondary.

 

Neither Cyprien nor Evans were ball hawks in college, so I wouldn't count on them just developing this ability out of nowhere. Cyprien is more of a Darius-like box Safety anyway....he and Evans will get the occasional pick, I'm sure...but you'll never see either one of them be the type of INT machine that we need in the secondary - think Mathis/ Earl Thomas/ Jairus Byrd/ etc etc.  

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