This is the guy Skattebo reminds me of

[MightyGiants]

Q. With Darius Alexander and Cam Skattebo, you mentioned having two years of tape on Jaxson and Abdul. When you look at a guy like Darius, a mid-major school, and Skattebo having really one big year, what is the process of seeing how they can fit with less film?

BRANDON BROWN: So this is really a moment. Hats off to our area scouts. It's early identification. They do a lot of the unseen work. When you look at Darius Alexander, you look at Brendan Prophett identifying him early at Toledo.

When we see him play against Pittsburgh and he zone drops and has an interception. Finding out the background that he once was an offensive lineman, had coordinator changes, he became a father really early. A lot of the hidden work that he's done and obstacles that he's overcome and come on the right side. Him showing up at Mobile wasn't the first time we were getting exposure to him. It created an early touch point and checkpoint.

When you look Skatt, same thing. We were hearing things about Skatt when he's at Sac State. You look at our area scouts, Hannah Burnett and Jeremy (Breit), those two were really the driving force in terms of identifying Skatt early.

Not just the highlights and the broken tackles that you see, but the unseen stuff. At practice, he's got some things in the pass game that are untapped. Then you watch the call it Texas game, you see him utilized in the pass game a little bit more.

When we go through the process with him, we weren't worried about 40 time, all those other things, because we had so many touch points and live looks in practice, that he wasn't a guy that popped on the scene late. We took him through the fall. We got to see him live. We're happy. That's the thing where we preach to our scouts early identification. Scout with your eyes, not with your ears.

Both of the scouts on the west coast, Brendan Prophett with the Toledo work, along with our other scouts, they did a really good job. It's part of our core values that Dennis Hickey driving the scouting process on the college side in terms of overseeing a lot of the calendar work of how we divide up the labor, of going to schools early, the amount of looks each school gets, the amount of live looks each school gets. There's a method to the madness. A lot of unseen work that goes on in the fall.

[Brooklyn Dave]

Marshawn Lynch running style and success would be a dream.  He was something else.

If only Pete Carroll didn't have a brain fart in Super Bowl 49

[spiderblue43]

I think Skat is Skat...
A relentless runner. Tough...pin ball style. But we shall see. Long way to training camp. Real combat under fire.

That said.. optimistic about him










 

[bamagiantfan]

For me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwfCMGIe0M

[AZGiantFan]

I think I'd like to see them throw in a few 2 back sets with Scattebo & Tracy.