Great story about Jason Allen
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http://www.finheaven.com/boardvb2/showthread.php?t=197318 posted this article this morning
Mike13
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This smells like utter crap. According to him, all of his struggles were caused by someone else, including his lengthy holdout (he blames it on his agent). Well Jason, if you wanted to get into camp so badly and it was just your greedy agent holding out for more money that kept you from doing so, why didn't you fire him? Many players have done just that.
Sorry, I think he'd be better off shutting up and letting his play speak for itself. He DOES have a lot to prove after a very disappointing rookie season.
Sorry, I think he'd be better off shutting up and letting his play speak for itself. He DOES have a lot to prove after a very disappointing rookie season.
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yeah, i agree...he should not talk about the hold out, that just pisses me off....
maybe hes not fit for saftey but he should have cracked the line up......
Where in the article did he blame his struggles on someone else? He said the missing of time was a cause. Never said who's fault the holdout was. The writer is the one who said it was the agent who held out. A journalist wants to do an article and all of a sudden a player needs to shut up. Why don't you just say the writer needs to stop asking questions?
As you said, the writer did lay out Jason Allen's scapegoats very neatly. But Allen did mention some of his own in other interviews and in this one as well:
I don't want to crucify the young man. Rookies do make mistakes and I don't fault him for that. I'd just rather hear something along those lines than who else was to blame for his struggles.
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Why is this article garnering criticism????? He's stating that he's working hard this offseason to prove that he was worth the pick last year (admitting that he struggled last year)......GOOD GOD, LET'S CRUCIFY HIM!!!!!! He was asked why he struggled last year, and he pointed out some things that contibuted to it....big deal!:shakeno: I liked the article, and I hope he continues to work hard, and keep the drive to prove people wrong about him.
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His situation does remind me a bit of Vernon Carey's. After 2004, Carey was pronounced a bust and many people here basically all but gave up on him. The media did not help. They frequently put it out there that Carey was "failing" at left tackle in 2005 when the tapes actually showed that he was probably the best left tackle Miami had since Richmond Webb (which isn't saying much). The issue was that Stockar McDougle was just plain awful at right tackle, and Damion McIntosh expressed discomfort with moving to the right side. Meanwhile Carey was fine with playing on the right side, so they figured the best pair of tackles they could field would be McIntosh on the left and Carey on the right, since Damion was uncomfortable with the right side and they really didn't want to let McDougle keep sucking at that spot.
It was interesting because during that funky 3-tackle rotation that they used for the first couple of games, Vernon Carey got the most playing time of the three tackles. He played the left side while Stockar played right, then Damion would come in and Vernon would play the right side while Stockar sat the bench. With about 200% of downs to share between the three men at the two positions, I would probably be comfortable saying that Carey was involved on 80% of downs while Stockar and Damion were in on about 60% of downs.
But none of the media seemed to really pick up on all that. They spoke with a few inside the organization that said the coaches are not comfortable with Vernon at left tackle long term...and why should they be? Ultimately, he's a franchise right tackle and only a pretty-good left tackle, a la John Tait...but the media ran away with all that saying that Carey at left tackle was a "failed experiment".
Recently, Hudson Houck spoke about how they would have played Carey at left tackle last year except Damion still expressed disinterest in playing on the right side...and that discomfort showed on the field when he played right guard and played it poorly.
So given all that history with Vernon Carey, the Jason Allen situation seems to parallel it in a lot of ways. Thing is, I don't even know why they're giving up on Allen as a safety so soon. I believe he can be an effective corner, but I also believe he can be an effective safety in this defense. Getting him in at safety allows him to affect the ball more often. I could see this situation paralleling the Carey thing LT/RT flip. Already, you have the media calling Allen's safety designation a "mistake" and using the same failed experiment language they used with Vernon Carey. They'll put Jason at corner where he'll do pretty well. Eventually you could see him back at safety, though...and nobody should be surprised if he does well there.
It was interesting because during that funky 3-tackle rotation that they used for the first couple of games, Vernon Carey got the most playing time of the three tackles. He played the left side while Stockar played right, then Damion would come in and Vernon would play the right side while Stockar sat the bench. With about 200% of downs to share between the three men at the two positions, I would probably be comfortable saying that Carey was involved on 80% of downs while Stockar and Damion were in on about 60% of downs.
But none of the media seemed to really pick up on all that. They spoke with a few inside the organization that said the coaches are not comfortable with Vernon at left tackle long term...and why should they be? Ultimately, he's a franchise right tackle and only a pretty-good left tackle, a la John Tait...but the media ran away with all that saying that Carey at left tackle was a "failed experiment".
Recently, Hudson Houck spoke about how they would have played Carey at left tackle last year except Damion still expressed disinterest in playing on the right side...and that discomfort showed on the field when he played right guard and played it poorly.
So given all that history with Vernon Carey, the Jason Allen situation seems to parallel it in a lot of ways. Thing is, I don't even know why they're giving up on Allen as a safety so soon. I believe he can be an effective corner, but I also believe he can be an effective safety in this defense. Getting him in at safety allows him to affect the ball more often. I could see this situation paralleling the Carey thing LT/RT flip. Already, you have the media calling Allen's safety designation a "mistake" and using the same failed experiment language they used with Vernon Carey. They'll put Jason at corner where he'll do pretty well. Eventually you could see him back at safety, though...and nobody should be surprised if he does well there.