Morgan practicing at FS...Finally

[Sully]

So...
Last year in camp, I paid some attention to Morgan. Wanted to see what the rookie looked like. He played soft, took terrible angles, and missed tackles.

This year in camp, I followed up by watching him again, and while it seemed he had gotten marginally better, I still didn't see a playmaker (or even a front-line type of player, really).

The other game this year that he got extended playing time, i didn't really pay any attention to him, so when I read that folks thought he had a good game, I thought to myself that maybe he had grown into his role a little bit more and improved.



...like hell...


I watched Morgan all day today, and he's horrible.


He's Charmin soft. He's often the guy standing right by a pile, so watching on TV, it looks like he was in good position to be the next guy, but the fact is he is VERY tentative, looks afraid to take on backs, and always a step late to make the hit. In short, he looked like a pussy, by NFL standards.

His angles are still horrible. Whether it's due to his tentativeness, or his inability to realize that if a guy is running, by the time you get to him he'll be somewhere else, I don't know. But I know that he was so often out of position to make plays that I was amazed he was on the field.

Finally...he tackles like Derrick Johnson. Just like Johnson, once he finds a guy with the ball, he likes to either hit them and allow them to run by, or actually use his arms, and drop quickly to his belly, in the hopes that his downward momentum will pass to the ballcarrier.


Can he get better? I don't know. I know that if a guy is afraid to hit, he's probably always going to be afraid to hit. But maybe I was reading things wrong...that's just how he looked out there. My buddy who was with me barely follows the Chiefs, so after a couple of quarters of watching him, I told him to watch a few plays and tell me what he thought. His words:"He looks like he's playing like a cornerback."
I couldn't have agreedmore.