Quote:I rate House as the Jags 3rd best CB behind McCray and Colvin. He wasn't a bad signing. The Jags paid too much, but had to use up cap space in any case, and quality depth at CB is always a good idea. It's all on Gus that he's starting over McCray. I'm not sure why McCray isn't a starter, maybe he made the mistake of asking for Rocky Road?


 

In any case, House was not to blame for what happened yesterday. Hopkins had a career day, making lots of difficult catches. A big part of the problem was that Hoyer had plenty of time to set his feet and make a perfect throw. Hopkins also got away with a lot of push-offs. No CB, not even Revis, would have been able to defend Hopkins yesterday.

 

I'm no expert at all but it looked to me like House was all over Hopkins most of the day and played pretty well considering. Few, if any, of Hopkins' catches were what we'd call easy...which isn't something we could say about opposing WRs skipping backwards wide open through secondaries past. I dunno about the push offs though, they both got away with a couple. There seemed to be a lot of contact in general between those two and the refs for the most part, let them play and I'm OK with that.

 

Hopkins is REALLY good. I'm honestly surprised he doesn't get talked about more than he does...but that's going to change very, very soon.

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