CoveragePoster

“Wholesome ass ball knower” in training | avid DB enthusiast | Slot receivers are glorified tight ends | District 22

[soy @soygIaze]

yeah i can’t not root for KAT

[Ted Nguyen @FB_FilmAnalysis]

Travis Hunter is so fluid in coverage. Mental demands of learning two positions in the league is bonkers but he's such a natural football player.

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

Aldon Smith passed away this weekend. Most people are talking about his incredible ability, potential, and performance as a football player.

Even though that is all true. He was so much more than that. He was a great friend and his kindness changed my life forever.

I met Aldon our freshman year at Mizzou. He was redshirted and relatively unknown as an athlete. His giveaway was the biggest hands you'll ever see and his ability to dunk at 250lbs, but his size in many ways didn't match his personality. He was relatively quiet and in most scenarios would try to shrink into the room vs stand out in it.

Over the course of the next year, we became close. We were very different people, from different places, but we both connected on the feeling of being a bit lost in the beginnings of adulthood. That year, I never really thought about him as a football player. He was just this gentle giant who loved to play video games and talk about life.

His sophmore year he broke the single season sack record at Mizzou, became an All American, and his life changed forever.

He became a celebrity on campus. He became a household name in Missouri. He became a top NFL draft prospect.

I remember how crazy his life became, and how quickly. ESPN doing interviews. Fancy cars being "loaned" to him. And people everywhere inserting themselves into his life.

Despite the craziness, my friend was always a text away.

My junior of college, I decided to take my first stab at entrepreneurship. I wanted to launch a chapter of Camp Kesem.

Kesem is a summer camp for children whose parents have been affected by cancer. The camp would be totally free and be a chance for a kid to experience the magic of being a kid again. As a son of a breast cancer survivor the idea of being able to create this camp in Missouri meant the world to me.

The Livestrong Foundation was hosting a nation wide contest to win $10,000 as seed capital to get started. To win, you had to have the most votes.

I tried really freaking hard to win that competition. I was going up against some really influential people at huge schools. As a somewhat awkward kid in Columbia, MO I had no chance.

So I asked my friend Aldon for a favor. I asked him if he would help me out and promote the link to vote.

He did more than just posting about Kesem on Facebook, skyrocketing us into the top place in the country. He kept supporting me the next 3 years while I was working on building Kesem.

He showed up to have fun with the kids. He helped me fundraise. He helped me get Kesem to become an official organization sponsored by the NFLPA so he could publicly endorse us as as a player.

Since then Torry Holt, Larry Fitzegerald, and many others have supported Kesem. But Aldon was the first.

Kesem led me to move to Austin to work for the Livestrong Foundation. Kesem is how I met my wife. Kesem gave me the confidence to start Workweek and continue the path of building something from scratch.

But in reality, Aldon enabled all those things.

Throughout the years we had many amazing memories together. Having my wife and I vacation to his house in San Jose. Going to New Orleans for the Super Bowl and seeing his entire family make the trip. Meeting his son and watching him be a dad. The hilarious night we met Derek Jeter. Having the most intellectual conversations about life while playing Call of Duty.

I also saw him struggle. There's no doubt he was a complicated person. Truthfully, I don't know if he ever really figured out who he wanted to be. I know just because your'e 6'4, 250lbs, and get 5.5 sacks in a single NFL game doesn't necessarily mean you want to be a football player. No matter the reasons, he made many bad decisions in his life. Some of those mistakes made it hard for me to stay as close as we'd once been.

One day, not too long ago, I just decided to text him. It had been years since we really chatted. I just wanted to say thank you for all that he had done for me and that I was sorry I wasn't there for him more through his struggles. We FaceTimed after that, and it was like the old days all over again.

Aldon was more than the headlines, the mistakes. He was a generous, gentle soul, a kid at heart, someone who was endlessly curious about life... all in the body of a world class NFL player, bearing the weight of professional pressure and personal circumstances that most of us can't even imagine.

People are complex. People who make bad decisions can also do great things. A person can be hated by almost everyone and, yet, there are people in that person's life who still love them deeply.

I learned many of these lesson due to Aldon, and I'll carry them with me forever.

Rest in peace, Aldon. You won't be forgotten.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

Former #49ers All-Pro DE Aldon Smith spent part of the final day of his life delivering pizzas to a local homeless charity (pictured below).

Hours later, he was found unresponsive in a vehicle and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Smith was 36 years old. His cause of death is pending.

Story via @sfchronicle: https://t.co/J2B6JBu7eO

[WBR @W_B_Rick]

Sure the Spurs have had some catastrophic collapses this series.

But you do have to give them credit for picking themselves off the mat, dusting themselves off, and learning absolutely nothing from them for next time.

[C.L. Frost @CLFrost77]

Rueben Foster

9ers got their HOF backer soon after but that’s who I thought Foster was

[Brandon Thorn @BrandonThornNFL]

One thing Tunsil repeatedly emphasized during our film study:

Winning with your feet before your hands.

"I already won with the set."

Full Pass Pro Lab: https://t.co/bj33HEA8V8

[aiden🌹💫 @commieclimber]

Absolutely disgusting from one of the largest and most prestigious medical institutions in the world

[Post Moves with Candace Parker & Aliyah Boston @PostMovesShow]

Double tap if this crossover should happen more often 🫶

[Cory @fakecorykinnan]

the most important trait in a contact sport is playing through contact

[Football Performances @NFLPerformances]

Randy Moss Route Running.

[Bibs @BibsCorner]

Bullying > Flopping all day

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

This type of hoops drives me batshit crazy…

It goes against everything taught. Crash the glass hard, turn, find your man, put a body on them & box out

Brunson knows exactly what he’s doing. 0 intention of boxing out. EVERY intention of drawing the foul.

[Pick 6 Athletics | DefensiveBack.com @Pick6Athletics]

Expect the back shoulder ‼️

The receiver is slowing down and turning his chest inwards for a reason

Man turn (look for the ball through the receiver)

Punch with your “low hand” (hand closest to his back shoulder)

And go make a play ✅

[Carter Donnick @CDonnick1]

Saban checks 👀, gotta wait to see how they actually are in gameplay but this is looking super promising

[Jason Lewis @Jasonlewis54]

@2kburden Fr.
Elite receivers should not get locked up by #2 corners

[James Foster @NoFlagsFilm]

DJ Turner is a magnet

[Walkemdown30 @30Walkemdown30]

@imspenser_6 @PranavSriraman @zaywarriors30 Shut up nigga stop making excuses for her. She’s very flawed and haven’t improved her game since her rookie season.

[Pranav Sriraman @PranavSriraman]

I can’t pretend to be moved by Caitlin Clark after watching the last couple of games this is just Rayford Young.

[Coach Vass (Join Me on the Other App) @CoachVass]

When I went to Bama in May, one of the guys told me that Caleb Downs could end up being the best Alabama DB EVER.

I thought that was high praise and a little bold… but watching his progression unfold in real time has been something.