West End Girls... We finish this series of articles. Leaving only pending the GRAND FINAL
Arizona Cardinals – DT Osi Umenyiora
The Cardinals live a Schrodinger’s Cat situation, they have the talent enough for compete but at same time GM Shapiro is very stubborn for give up his philohophy. The roster Apolo inherited was complete in all aspects of the ball, predecessor knew what was the common kind of players that use to work. The change of GM brought a revolution specially at one very peculiar position: DT, Cardinals are the only team with DT over 80 speed, that in big part cause Shapiro loves speed, but till now at least statically speaking have not work. Osi Umenyiora was restructure for 7 years and if he doesn’t have impact as DT, Cardinals should seriously consider a position change, hard to think Apolo is going to give up, but he needs Osi support this season. So picking Umenyiora as Cardinals X-Factor as he’s the key of a different scheme.
St. Louis Rams – ROLB Paul Posluszny
Rams overcome an slow start last season, and ended the season with a big streak and as NFC West champions. We all know this team leader is Drew Brees, and he made WR Travis Taylor shine. So the logic pick here would be to choose another player at offense, but instead I’ll go with the defensive side of the Ball. Rams need another big playmaker different than CB Surtain. And I’ll choose the 2 yrs experience Posludzny, a player I believe doesn’t get the attention he should, with good physical attributes and great football skills, he had a decent rookie year but an extremely disappointing sophomore season at least talking about the big 3 stats: 5 TFL – 0 Sacks – 1 Int, and only 52 tkl. A player with his conditions won’t have back to back bad seasons, and this year he’ll finally receive the respect he should have and stablish himself as a top young OLB.
San Francisco 49ers – HB Brandon Jackson
Talk about 49ers require much context, in another article may do it with more detail, but in my opinion San Francisco is way more talented team than his numbers say, the constant injures of QB Orton doesn’t help much, but as mention with Bears, if there’s a dark horse list 49ers must be in. But there’s an specific player situation that is extremely hard to understand: HB Brandon Jackson has almost everything to be a successful player, he’s a complete stud, fast, strong, raw at football skills, but we’ve seen HB’s with worst numbers have success. Based on his low Carry I don’t think his 7 fumbles are a surprise. But he had only 1 rush TD in 16 games, and his previous season without a 100% role starter was the same. That stat line is so bad that with 1 good game at season opening he could tie or even have more TD’s than in his first 2 years. So I believe when everything goes terrible bad as with Jackson, the nature is things like balance. If GM Peter Fanger have patience HB Jackson eventually going to produce the numbers he should, and that can be as sooner as this season.
Seattle Seahawks – CB Drayton Florence
Seahawks GM Rock Hewko is just unique, he does whatever he wants and doesn’t care about others comments, in fact I could write the best description about his team and his job, or trash talk all his players and philosophy, and I can picture him eating popcorns as Michael Jackson meme laughing about critics. As is so hard to predict Seahawks, I’ll take a safe pick for finish this article, with the mention of course this player should have good numbers, but as an X-Factor im expecting him to be a pro-bowler, interception machine and that player is CB Drayton Florence. Physically gifted with good size and great football skills for his YP and age
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