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Spring Testing Numbers - Speed at WR
Posted on 3/14/16 at 8:19 am
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Posted on 3/14/16 at 9:24 am to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Hell yeah. I love me some Robert Foster. I thought that dude was gonna have a huge year last year. He's "fast fast"
Posted on 3/14/16 at 9:38 am to SECSolomonGrundy
how much eligibility does he have left?
Posted on 3/14/16 at 9:55 am to narddogg81
Foster is a redshirt JR
Posted on 3/14/16 at 10:43 am to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Foster was mentioned a couple times by players when asked a few weeks ago who the fastest on the team was. With his size and speed, should be a great compliment to Ridley this year. Whomever wins the QB battle will have multiple weapons to choose between.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:28 am to sarc
I can't think of a team that can top Ridley/Foster/Howard/Stewart all being on the field at the same time.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:38 am to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Don't forget we are bringing in Gerhig Dieter
Posted on 3/14/16 at 1:46 pm to 14&Counting
On paper this is easily the best receiving corp I can ever remember at Alabama.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 2:00 pm to tide06
Most definitely. Has speed, experience, great route runners and big play potential. Can't wait to see what Foster has in store for us when he returns. Before his injury, you could argue he was the #1 receiver with 10 catches and 2 TDs.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 9:31 pm to Gary Busey
If our OL can keep a clean pocket our QB should have a field day in 2016.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 12:38 am to Gary Busey
No argument about it. He was our #1, and looked the part. The whole situation with him and Ridley last year was eerily similar to DeAndrew White and Cooper in 2012.
Can't wait to see them on the field together. Having Foster back will allow Ridley to play his more natural position. Foster is more of the prototype #1 X WR. In the mold of Julio, AJ Green, Demarious Thomas, Calvin Johnson....etc.
Ridley is more akin to Antonio Brown, Steve Smith, Cooper...etc. The traditional #2 Z WR. He is a bit more of a jitterbug than those guys though, he isn't as smooth. His movements are a bit more....frantic, I guess you could say. Which actually helps him when playing the X because he can break press so easily. Z is just his more natural position.
Can't wait to see them on the field together. Having Foster back will allow Ridley to play his more natural position. Foster is more of the prototype #1 X WR. In the mold of Julio, AJ Green, Demarious Thomas, Calvin Johnson....etc.
Ridley is more akin to Antonio Brown, Steve Smith, Cooper...etc. The traditional #2 Z WR. He is a bit more of a jitterbug than those guys though, he isn't as smooth. His movements are a bit more....frantic, I guess you could say. Which actually helps him when playing the X because he can break press so easily. Z is just his more natural position.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 8:14 am to VaBamaMan
My fat arse could look good at QB with those receivers.
Posted on 3/15/16 at 11:02 am to VaBamaMan
Ridley can play the X all day. (For those who don't know the X receiver is the guy who has to play right on the line of scrimmage so the offense has the correct # of players on the line. It can suck for that player because the DB can jam him right at the line and take him nearly out of the play). He is so quick and explosive in both his upper and lower body that he can slip by a press and a DB could even choose to play off the line instead of jamming him. If they do jam him need to have a safety looking over there. It's a matchup coup either say.
Foster is a prototypical X though and is a better blocker out there on the close to the line DB for runs. It's just a great advantage to be able to swap in and out like that. The CB over there will be the same guy the whole game, but one play he's got Foster in his face and trying to sprint by, the next he has Ridley juking right off the line, coming in shallow for short screens and slants, or double moving deep.
Foster and Deiter provide the big bodies with good hands we were missing last year. All the good things done in the passing game involved a pair of thin, quick receivers (Ridley, Stewart) and a multitalented tailback. For 2016, outside of the ever so versital #17, Kiffin has every TYPE of receiver weapon an OC could ask for. Also, as solid as Mullaney and Drake were blocking on screens to Ridley, Dieter and Foster project even better, so that becomes a dangerous trio when we see them lined up on one side
Foster is a prototypical X though and is a better blocker out there on the close to the line DB for runs. It's just a great advantage to be able to swap in and out like that. The CB over there will be the same guy the whole game, but one play he's got Foster in his face and trying to sprint by, the next he has Ridley juking right off the line, coming in shallow for short screens and slants, or double moving deep.
Foster and Deiter provide the big bodies with good hands we were missing last year. All the good things done in the passing game involved a pair of thin, quick receivers (Ridley, Stewart) and a multitalented tailback. For 2016, outside of the ever so versital #17, Kiffin has every TYPE of receiver weapon an OC could ask for. Also, as solid as Mullaney and Drake were blocking on screens to Ridley, Dieter and Foster project even better, so that becomes a dangerous trio when we see them lined up on one side
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