Friday, June 16, 2017

Arizona Cardinals Off-Season Report

As of 6/16/17

BIGGEST RE-SIGN:
Chandler Jones
38 tackles, 11 sacks, 4 forced fumbles


BEST FREE AGENT SIGNING:
Antoine Bethea
95 tackles, 1 INT


1st Round: Haason Reddick
34 OLB
Temple

Strengths: 
Reddick is an extremely athletic edge rusher.  His quickness coming off the edge forcing the OL to get off the LOS quickly.  While his size does not allow for him to compete strength wise with an OL on a consistent basis, his quickness enables him to come off the edge successfully.  He shows excellent footwork, sliding his feet nicely, enabling him to break to the ball carrier when lined up at the LOS, as well as enabling him to slide is feet at the 2nd level in pass coverage.  His quickness also enables him to pick up a RB coming out of the backfield and showed fluid hips to maintain coverage.  Shows quick hands to disengage with his block.
Weaknesses: 
While Reddick has the ability to come off the line quickly, he struggles to do so consistently, preventing him from getting a 1st step on the OL.  Reddick does not possess the size to get through a block on a consistent basis as he showed he can be overpowered at the POA.  Reddick has a tendency to try and wrap up the ball carrier high rather than squaring him up, forcing him to miss tackles.  Would like to see Reddick work on more pass rush moves moving forward.

2nd Round: Budda Baker
Safety
Washington


Strengths:
Baker shows he is a very athletic, physical player.  He uses his quickness and fluid hips to get into pass coverage and maintain pass coverage by being able to recover with success.  he has a solid closing burst, enabling him to get to the QB with success on a blitz or close on a ball carrier quickly in the open field.  He shows very good cover skills, both m2m and zone, keeps his eyes on the QB.
Weaknesses:
Baker lacks overall strength, however, he makes up for it with his physicality.  Going forward would like to see him become stronger to make himself that much better, especially in shedding blocks.  While he has the explosive ability, there are times where he does not utilize it as he has the ability to. 















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