After a couple of years in the NFL, I wouldn’t want him performing surgery on my brain..and there are somedays that I think I could use it..I’d pick pick him for football but pass on my brain…maybe he can perform some outpatient procedures on Gilbride…

for OVERALL future potential, but a #5-#7 round pick as a football player. The anti-Rogers Cromarte, but a slow safety who didn’t make a lot of big plays, who offsets that with smarts. I wouldn’t mind having him, but wouldn’t be in a hurry to overpay to get him either. If I remember right, Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar as was Bill Bradley. Not a bad thing on the resume’, but not a guarantee of perfection or dominating ability either (I consider one of the two above to have been effective at what they later did). Overall, looks like a far smarter version of a typical late-in-the-draft safety selection. Personally if I was M. Rolle, I’d be worried about being two concussions away from being on my way to being a government bureaucrat rather than a neurosurgeon, and if the second was my goal in life, I’d bag football entirely. The fact that he’s a bright guy and hasn’t leads me to think he ENJOYS football, and the only question him in the draft should be “how good of a FOOTBALL player is he?”

Were I in his shoes, I’d opt for playing a couple of years. Anybody remember Dr. Bobby Brown of the Yankees?

Thanks Ed =)

Even if Phillips can’t go Michael Johnson isn’t garbage. I guess maybe if he’s there in a late round and we just want some extra depth.

take him. there are still no guarantees phillips comes back injury free. michael johnson was always a subpar safety at best. at the very least he gives us some insurance and a smart utility player.

Last time I saw him at FSU, he had an uncanny ability to know where the ball was going. Perhaps that is the advantage of being smarter.

But he didn’t look great at the combine, slow, stiff, etc. Hard to know if he is still shaking off the cobwebs or just isn’t as good as the memory.

I like him in round 4 or later, but it depends on who is drafted before him (wouldn’t draft him in 4th if they grab Nate Allen in the 2nd)

I’d love to use a 4th or lower round pick on him. KP could long be affected by his knee, so there are no guarantees there. We saw what happened last year when he went down. Not sure about you, but I’m not wanting to see MJ or CC on the field for more than kickoffs and punts. At worst this kid is a more intelligent CC. So I say we draft him and drop CC.

    After the concern about his shoulder yesterday, I’m surprised that the Giants signed him. Then again, they may have looked at the results they’ve had with their own doctors and the fact that two of most reknown and respected surgeons had cleared him and said “why not.” Unfortunately Rhys Lloyd (designated kickoff specialist) signed with Minnnesota, so I’m back to hoping the Giants will look at Michigan punter/kicker late in the later rounds of the draft.

I say take him. As a UNC student, I got to see him crush our receivers and pick-off our quarterback at least once every season. He is a great safety and should probably be going earlier in the draft. Since Fewell prefers zone defenses, he should be alright with his 40 time. And I wouldn’t be too worried about him wanting to be a doctor; he wouldn’t have entered the draft if he wasn’t serious, right? It just means he’ll retire at a reasonable age, rather than pull a Bret Favre and play until he’s sixty.

  I got to see him close up and personal at the senior Bowl and I was telling everyone how good he looked, how fast he looked, and just how fluid he was. Then came the game and he kind of just got lost in the mix. I can’t remember if I even heard his name called and I know he didn’t shine enough to be talked about after so…

  Then came the combine and he was 4 th from last in his 40 time. I would have said 3rd no doubt after seeing him at the senior bowl but I think maybe a 5th is perfect for him. Lets be honest he won’t be there for our pick in the 5th as someone is going to take a chance earlier but it may be a reach!

being a playmaker than a rover?

to get strips, interceptions, etc. He’s also the guy who can give up the biggest plays. Probably, KP may never become the superstar we thought he would, but I’m hoping he can reach star status

or Rover?

which he well might, you’re right. The primary job of a cover two S is to keep the WRs in front of him. A rover covers most of the field and is the one player most likely to make big plays (strips, fumbles, ints.) Think Polamalu.

and first African-American Giant, an All-Time BBV All-Star and HOFer. One of my dozen or soall-time favorite Giants.

In the top five and they played a lot fewer games back in the day.

It..well I am probably going to wind up on the couch again..She knows she married a fighter pilot, well ex-fighter pilot..but she wasn’t pleased with what I posted..Well I am going to wait awhile and sneak up to bed..I’ll,… being military will check for potential weaponry..and bedside bombs..I tried to tell her..Hey baby, you know I am a humorous crazy guy..That went over like a fart in church she said: "I know your a crazy funny nut..but do you have to tell everybody on the internet ?!?..I said yep..I also tried to squell her wrath by asking her who her Cowboys were going to draft this year..Well that went over like a fart in church also..She is like: “You told people out here that my bare-ass was showing?”…I told her: “Well yeah but they didn’t see it!!”

reckless leaving your posting up.

BTW, for years I thought that today’s fighter pilots had to be Tom Cruise size to fit into the cockpit what with all the instruments/equipment jammed in there. No way I figured big guys like Ted Williams or Ed McMahon could be a fighter pilot these days. Recently, a dental technician whose husband is an aviation buff told me of seeing a Blue Angels exhibition and later meeting them. She said, the Angels ranged from average to tall size. I questioned that and she produced a snapshot of her and hubby with them. She was right. (They all looked skinniesh.) Was there a time after Korea when my belief was correct? When did it change? Was there a time at all when a guy your size would have been hard put to squeeze into the cockpit of a fighter? Some of the locations on the WWII vintage planes I flew on were impossible for an average size guy to squeeze into (particularly belly gunners.) You had to be no bigger than 5’4" or so to get in there. I took a training flight on a B-29 flight in the nose gunner spot once. Damned uncomfortable (and I weighed about 80 lbs less then.) 29s took forever to get off the ground. Quite a sensation rolling down the runway so close to the ground.

As for wifey, peace through jewelry has always worked for me. Try Overstock .com—good jewelry at a good price. I just bought her a ruby necklace for our fortieth anniversary (in June. ) In fact, I stocked up for the rest of the year, Mother’s Day, birthday, Xmas. I’m throwing in a trip to Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos for the anniversary as well. No worse misery than living with a woman nursing resentment. Getting rid of it becomes job one.

I think this kid has the book smarts and the football smarts to excel at any endeavor he chooses. He has the size and athletic attributes you like to see. If he was available in the third or fourth round, I say take him. He can come in and play on special teams and try to work his way into the saftey rotation. I would be happy with that. I need not remind all of you of the other professional ball players who have gone on to become doctors, lawyers and politicians.