A Nickel Package Without Wilhite?
 

Please tell me Wilhite won't be covering Jordan Shipley. As a Texas-ex who's watched a ton of Longhorn football, there's no way Wilhite can effectively cover Shipley. Please tell me we have another nickel back besides Wilhite. Maybe Page can knock the crap out of Shipley off the LOS?

Someone? Anyone?

QB12

Re: A Nickel Package Without Wilhite?
 

I'd be more worried about the guys trying to cover Ocho, but whatever. Lets tear into Whilite some more.

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I'm not even worried.
Wilhite can cover Shipley, easily. Wilhite is underated in this forum, he isn't that bad, he just isn't a nfl starter caliber cb.

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When I read your post, and closed my eyes, all I could envision was Wilhite being in perfect position, running with the WR while the WR easily makes the catch. That, to me, is Wilhite.

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Seems like a pretty fair assessment at this point. Too bad we lost the chance to have one of Butler or DMc manning the slot.

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It's a performance driven league, and unfortunately for Wilhite, his has been lacking by most quantifiable means. That and subjectively by my eyes, he's always burnt or covering up for one with a penalty.

I hope he does well, but I (as well) feel he is a weak link on this D. Just another example of how any injury (Bodden's in this case) hurts you indirectly as well.

In any case, trial by fire will settle the case of his abilities soon enough.

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Who are you envisioning? Reggie Wayne, Brandon Marshall, Marques Colston, Andre Johnson? Your "dream" makes sense. But you're forgeting, that Jordan Shipley, is a rockie, a slot guy(no need to run a lot), who was only drafted because he was in Texas.

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Relax.

Ive been told by a Coach and all around PF.Com expert that its all taken care of.

You see, Shipley is a rookie and they dont do jack.

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I don't think he was *only* drafted because he was a Longhorn. Shipley impressed in his time at Texas. Going by the eye test, he's a solid route runner and has soft hands. He's not your traditional burner, but he's deceptively fast. He ran the 40 in 4.47.

Overall, I haven't been impressed at all with Wilhite. I'm hoping that Wheatley showed enough in preseason to leap frog him as the nickelback. However, if we have to put Wilhite on Shipley, I wouldn't be scared. The bottom line is whether or not we get to Palmer. The Bengals have a lot of weapons in the passing game, but their O-Line has looked horrible in the preseason. I'm fairly confident that we should be able to get enough pressure on him to disrupt their passing game.

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Good point. I guess my post was addressing your "underrated" claim. I mean he is serviceable. He's not nearly as bad as 2008 Deltha O'Neal, but I'm not sure he's underrated.