seesred said:
Aeneas Williams started out the same way Rolle will. I wouldn';t have changed him at starting opposite Macklin, I would have tried harder to sign a guy with expoierance like Mcq to back up and teach if the price was right. That's the key even though you can waive them at anytime there is a signing bonus most of the time and cap to think about.
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Well not all first rounders at CB wind up like Aeneas(who wasn't a first rounder himself) so that doesn't mean Rolle will be that good. We all hope he will and he certainly has talent, but he's playing a completely new defensive concept for him, he's a guy who's always been really physical in press coverage, we're not asking him to do that and NFL refs won't let him do that.
So I think it's entirely likely he's going to have an adjustment period, doesn't mean I think he'll be a bust, just that the press coverage stuff is precisely why I've maintained all along he'll be a better safety than CB in the NFL. Until the NFL tells the refs to stop calling PI and holding like they did last year, Rolle is going to have to learn his position all over again, that's not easy to do and it'll take him time.
We can keep saying we got by with Hill and Starks last year so Rolle will be fine, but both those guys had played in the NFL before and enough that although Rolle is more talented than either guy, he's not nearly as NFL ready as they were.
I don't think Rolle is going to cost us a bunch of games, but I do wish we had a more experienced CB on the roster to help us while Rolle learns the ropes.