DRC is the next Deion Sanders (1 Viewer)

[LHUCKS]

Deion would have made that pick.

I was very surprised DRC didn't come up with that...looked like it went right through his hands...regardless, did you see DRC close on Jackson on that play?With the exception of that tipped ball, DRC handled Jackson IMHO.

DeSean had 6 catches for 92 yards and a TD. He tied a career high for receptions in a game, and had the 4th most yards receiving in a game in his career. It was also the most fantasy points he's ever put up in a game.

Without the big play he was held...which is why I stated "with the exception".

 

[Limp Ditka]

Deion would have made that pick.

I was very surprised DRC didn't come up with that...looked like it went right through his hands...regardless, did you see DRC close on Jackson on that play?With the exception of that tipped ball, DRC handled Jackson IMHO.

DeSean had 6 catches for 92 yards and a TD. He tied a career high for receptions in a game, and had the 4th most yards receiving in a game in his career. It was also the most fantasy points he's ever put up in a game.

Without the big play he was held...which is why I stated "with the exception".

So you mean you're wrong because of that one play.

 

[awesomeness]

Deion would have made that pick.

I was very surprised DRC didn't come up with that...looked like it went right through his hands...regardless, did you see DRC close on Jackson on that play?With the exception of that tipped ball, DRC handled Jackson IMHO.

DeSean had 6 catches for 92 yards and a TD. He tied a career high for receptions in a game, and had the 4th most yards receiving in a game in his career. It was also the most fantasy points he's ever put up in a game.

Without the big play he was held...which is why I stated "with the exception".

Why am i supposed to excuse DRC for his #### up? If you want to be included in the group of elite CBs in the league, you don't #### up like that at that point in the game.

 

[Day Drinker]

Deion would have made that pick.

I was very surprised DRC didn't come up with that...looked like it went right through his hands...regardless, did you see DRC close on Jackson on that play?With the exception of that tipped ball, DRC handled Jackson IMHO.

DeSean had 6 catches for 92 yards and a TD. He tied a career high for receptions in a game, and had the 4th most yards receiving in a game in his career. It was also the most fantasy points he's ever put up in a game.

Without the big play he was held...which is why I stated "with the exception".

Why am i supposed to excuse DRC for his #### up? If you want to be included in the group of elite CBs in the league, you don't #### up like that at that point in the game.

Instead, you should just get repeatedly beat throughout the game like the Eagle CBs.

 

[Cookiemonster]

The most telling play in regards to his physical ability yesterday, was when Curtis caught the crossing route and DRC bit too hart to the inside. Curtis beat DRC to the outside at full speed. DRC flipped his hips and was at full speed in two steps, easily catching the underrated speed of Curtis. The guy is far from polished, but he has maybe the best ability of any CB I've seen since Deion. I had never seen him 'till the combine last year. Just watching him run drills, I said he was a lock to be a 1st round pick. If he doesn't let $ and talent go to his head, he could be that good and I think he will be. Way too early to say though. I was wearing my K.Bell Steelers jersey yesterday.

 

[Native]

This is an annoying thread because of the way it was started (and who started it). That said, I thought DRC looked good yesterday. Even on the long TD pass, he was right there and will likely knock the ball away 9 out of 10 times. Hes a gamer and should be a good starting DB in the league for a long time.

The next Deion Sanders?

 

[LHUCKS]

Get ready to be SHUTDOWN Santonio!!

 

[B Will]

if people are putting up this kind of talk i better pick him up in my dynasty off the WW

 

[bcr8f]

Easily the most dominant rookie corner I've seen since Deion Sanders...easily.

I kind of like him, but let's see how he plays today. Pittsburgh isn't a dominant passing team, but let's see.

 

[The Jacket]

Considering Brandon Flowers had a better rookie year, I don't really think DRC is the best thing since Sanders.

DRC >>> Flowers ......and it's not close.

It was funny watching DRC give up about as many yards in the Super Bowl as Flowers did all year.

 

[The Jacket]

Get ready to be SHUTDOWN Santonio!!

X

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

Get ready to be SHUTDOWN Santonio!!

 

[Jayrok]

Get ready to be SHUTDOWN Santonio!!

Post of the century.DRC showed good closing speed to break up one long pass. Sanders would have picked it off, though. Other than that, did DRC play at all in the second half? Or was he just giving Holmes a 20 yard cushion the whole half? Because he was no where to be seen or heard from. Nice disappearing act.

 

[yellowdog]

 

[Black Box]

Get ready to be SHUTDOWN Santonio!!

 

[Demian]

Thus far he doesn't appear to be a very versatile corner. They were killing him with the quick outs to Santonio. Does he not know how to jam a receiver at the line?

 

[Black Box]

Get ready to be SHUTDOWN Santonio!!

 

[Sabertooth]

 

[drew726]

I thought Arizona gave up the most passing TD's this year.

 

[Frenchy Fuqua]

Did DRC cost Clancy Pendergast his job?

 

[Frenchy Fuqua]

Peter King's MMQB recapping the final SB-winning drive.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...lers/index.html

There are big plays in a game, and there are big decisions that lead to big plays. And Rodgers-Cromartie was about to make a decision that he'll regret for a long time, and the Pittsburgh quarterback was about to pull back a pass that'll be the best decision of his NFL career.

On second-and-six, wide receiver Hines Ward, tight end Heath Miller and Washington were flanked left, Moore as a sidecar to the right of Roethlisberger, and Holmes six yards outside the right tackle -- the only receiver to the right. At the snap, Moore slithered out to the right flat, and Holmes did a quick 11-yard curl, sitting at the Cards' 35. Because the Cards sent five rushers and blitzed outside 'backer Okeafor from the left instead of leaving him in coverage on the hot receiver (Moore), Roethlisberger had Moore wide open at the 46, with a few yards of free space in front of him.

"I was getting ready to throw it to Mo,'' Roethlisberger said. "In fact, I was throwing it to him -- but at the last possible second I saw Cromartie sprinting up to cover Mo. He must have been reading my eyes. So I pulled it back. Who knows what would have happened had I thrown that one?''

I'll tell you what: Rodgers-Cromartie would have blasted Moore in his tracks. It would have been a gain of one, maybe, and set up about a third-and-five. But that's what huge hands do for you. Roethlisberger has oversized hands, and when he pumped the ball to Moore, he did more than pump -- he almost let the ball go. But at the last moment he saw the corner coming up and pulled the ball back in.

"Then I looked back at Tone [santonio], and he had some space,'' Roethlisberger said. Big Ben threw to the outside shoulder of Holmes, and Francisco, coming up for the double-coverage, slipped three yards from Holmes. The receiver was off to the races, and Francisco collared him down at the Arizona six.

Pittsburgh took its last timeout. Now the Steelers had a gimme field goal, but no one on the sideline told Roethlisberger to be safe here. Not with 48 seconds left and a fresh set of downs, six yards from the win. It was time to go for the jugular, and Roethlisberger knew it. On first down, he pumped to Miller near the back of the end zone on the right, pulled it back, and let fly for Holmes at the left corner of the end zone. Holmes had beaten Rodgers-Cromartie and Antrel Rolle. The pass was a little high, but Holmes went up, twisted around slightly ... and just couldn't close his hands around the tight spiral.

"I thought I lost the Super Bowl,'' Holmes would say later.

Roethlisberger didn't care. "Tone knew and I knew I'd go back to him,'' he said.

But the next play had Holmes as the third option. "Mo in the flat, Hines on the pick-pivot, Tone in the corner of the end zone,'' Roethlisberger said, running through his options. Cornerback Ralph Brown "kind of jumped the route'' on Moore at the seven; Brown was wavering between Holmes, running for the corner and covered by Rodgers-Cromartie and Francisco.

Ward "was kind of open, and I almost banged it to him'' at the five, with a Card defender on his back," said Roethlisberger. He knew he could have sledgehammered the ball into Ward, but would his receiver have hung onto it or would it have been knocked away? Finally, Roethlisberger took a micro-second and looked at Miller, but he was covered. Now it was back to Holmes. Brown straddled the goal line, waiting for Big Ben's decision, and when he saw Roethlisberger switch his eyes to Holmes quickly and wind up, Brown skittered back.

"It's one of those throws where you just don't think,'' Roethlisberger said. "You're just trying to put it where the receiver can catch it, but if you don't, he's the only one who can catch it. When I let it go, I thought it was his ball or no one's. But a second later, I see the corner [brown] and I think, He's gonna pick it off.''

The ball went five inches, maybe six, over the gloved fingertips of the leaping Brown. Francisco was coming in for the kill shot on Holmes. Rodgers-Cromartie reminded me so much of Asante Samuel on last year's miracle catch by David Tyree -- a spectator, strangely and regrettably, on the biggest play of the season, instead of a mugger as soon as the ball hit Holmes' hands.

Holmes had missed the previous throw. Not this one. Leaning over the white boundary stripe, five feet shy of the end line, Holmes snatched the high ball out of the air and got what -- one, two feet down? The Ultra Slow-Motion camera at NBC director Fred Gaudelli's disposal (the network had three of these artsy cameras in use, two low at either end zone, and one on the 50) dispelled all doubt that Holmes got his right foot down. No way referee Terry McAulay would have been able to overturn the call anyway, but Ultra Slow-Mo assured that the Steelers had their touchdown -- and Roethlisberger his drive for the ages.

When he hugged Holmes, Roethlisberger said to him: "The other catch would have been a lot easier. You should have caught that one,'' meaning the pass on the previous play. And they both laughed.

Now that he's relived it a few hundred times, Roethlisberger wouldn't change a thing. Obviously. "I was just trying to make a play,'' he said. "Nothing complicated. Looking back on it, if I was a little timid, or if I thought about it, it's a different story. But you can't play football like that. It's a game of reaction. I play the game one way. You saw it on that drive.''

 

[LHUCKS]

Tap...all over Driver like a blanket...get out of here old man...you can't keep up with that kind of speed.

 

[massraider]

I like that strategy he had of letting the white guy beat him for a TD. Just setting him up for later, no doubt. Sweeeet.

 

[LHUCKS]

I like that strategy he had of letting the white guy beat him for a TD. Just setting him up for later, no doubt. Sweeeet.

Yeah...he got taken to the woodshed today by the Packers WRs...worst game I've seen him play in a while.

 

[awesomeness]

I like that strategy he had of letting the white guy beat him for a TD. Just setting him up for later, no doubt. Sweeeet.

Yeah...he got taken to the woodshed today by the Packers WRs...worst game I've seen him play in a while.

Personally i wouldn't call 2 games ago "a while". That's just me though.

 

[spider321]

So........Does this mean we shouldn't go ahead and get DRC's measurements for the gold blazer? :(

 

[The Jacket]

Meet the new DRC ... same as the old DRC.

 

[Michael Fox Fan]

I like that strategy he had of letting the white guy beat him for a TD. Just setting him up for later, no doubt. Sweeeet.

Yeah...he got taken to the woodshed today by the Packers WRs...worst game I've seen him play in a while.

Personally i wouldn't call 2 games ago "a while". That's just me though.

 

[jurb26]

I like that strategy he had of letting the white guy beat him for a TD. Just setting him up for later, no doubt. Sweeeet.

Yeah...he got taken to the woodshed today by the Packers WRs...worst game I've seen him play in a while.

Personally i wouldn't call 2 games ago "a while". That's just me though.

Yeah, little ol Santono Holmes took him behind the woodshed in a game you may have seen....

 

[sib]

 

[The Jacket]

Meet the new DRC ... same as the old DRC.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

BUMP

At least he looks better than he did in the preseason game vs. the Pack....

Pierre Garcon = SPEED

Edit: LOL 2 guys beat me to the bump. Too funny.

 

[sho nuff]

I haven't seen a beatin' like that since somebody stuck a banana in my pants and turned a monkey loose.

Cousin Eddie was so right.

Though, not sure if he is talking about DRC or HUCKS

 

[TidesofWar]

DRC is the next admission into the Phoenix "Burn Unit"

 

[PizzaDeliveryGuy]

After the display he put on last week QBs might already consider ignoring his side of the field.I agree he likely wont match Sanders' return prowess...but he'll likely be a better tackler. This kid is special....once in a generation type player.

Holy cow.

 

[EdwardCat]

who the hell is DRC?

Yes, who the hell is DRC?

 

[caglassc]

who the hell is DRC?

Yes, who the hell is DRC?

Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie

 

[MSULions]

who the hell is DRC?

Yes, who the hell is DRC?

seems to be a pretty average cb that plays for the Cardinals. he got his ### handed to him tonight by the 4th receiver on the Colts. He seems to think he's hot ####, but sure spends a lot of the game chasing guys down the field after they catch passes.

 

[Bigboy10182000]

Just like Deangelo Hall like 3 years back.... He's great just ask him, don't let your eyes fool you.

 

[Sarnoff]

He's a fantasy goldmine, for opposing WRs. Any way to find out who's lining up against him for the rest of the season?

 

[Incogneto]

hahaha, stupid DRC.

 

[Penguin]

This thread is almost better than the Matt Leinart is GOD thread that LHUCKS started awhile back

 

[fantasysharkctb]

Crow.

 

[Sweetness_34]

 

[Knobs]

This is one of the funniest threads I've ever seen in the SP.

 

[yellowdog]

Rotoworld

DRC was supposed to develop into a shutdown corner, but opposing quarterbacks have been feasting on him this season. He's sitting out practice this week with the Cardinals on bye.

 

[rrhartjr]

Someone mentioned DeAngelo Hall. He's almost exactly like Hall, except he's even more physically gifted.

D. Hall stuck around basically because he was fast as ####, he could make up for his stupid decisions by flying around the field.

DRC has all the attributes of a shutdown corner.. except a brain. He makes mind bogglingly stupid decisions, just like Hall. He doesn't understand zone concepts, he bites on everything, he's forever peeking in the backfield, et cetera.

 

[LHUCKS]

Someone mentioned DeAngelo Hall. He's almost exactly like Hall, except he's even more physically gifted. D. Hall stuck around basically because he was fast as ####, he could make up for his stupid decisions by flying around the field.DRC has all the attributes of a shutdown corner.. except a brain. He makes mind bogglingly stupid decisions, just like Hall. He doesn't understand zone concepts, he bites on everything, he's forever peeking in the backfield, et cetera.

 

[Sweetness_34]

LHUCKS admitting DRC sucks??

 

[Day Drinker]

I think it is still a bit early in his career to call DRC a success or a failure. He only has about 12 NFL starts under his belt, and for the most part, it takes NFL corners 2+ years to really learn the position ( even the smart ones ). Even Nhamdi took a couple years to emerge, so can we give the kid a break? Especially since he came from a small school, so that might suggest it would take him even a bit longer to develop because he didn't get the coaching he would have at a "bigger" college program.