Grant and Danny
Travis Hunter Puts On A Show For Colorado
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First of all, Travis Hunter, who is both a wide receiver and a cornerback and is considered one of the top five players in America at both positions. Rightly so. Is an unbelievable talent. Now, he got away a couple of times with very obvious offensive pass interference, which I really didn't see anybody talk about or acknowledge or care about. But it was really clear to me a couple of times either pushed off or the deep throw down the right sideline started the second half. There was some hand fighting and then there was some pushing by one person. The most obvious push off ever. But that's great. He's really good at a touchdown where he slung a guy to the ground back of the end zone. Not called. Don't really care about that. That's not the point. The point is that guy is the best athlete on any field that he's going to be on this year. And I tweeted this last night. Here's what's scary about him. I'm not sure that there will be a better athlete on an NFL field next year when he's on it. Maybe Lamar Jackson or somebody like that. Maybe. But there have not been talents like this. I don't remember anybody this side of Charles Woodson who could do it both ways. Champ Bailey, you remember, post Woodson 99, Washington drafted seventh overall to the University of Georgia, played wide receiver, played corner, a little bit in college, not to the same extent that Hunter does. And Bailey, even in the NFL, very, very limited capacity. But if you remember, at the end of some lost seasons, I think it was the Spurrier timeframe. They asked him to play on both sides of the ball. He caught some passes, was targeted as a wide receiver. You just don't see it. You know, it's like the show. Hey, thing in football. It's too hard. People aren't good enough. Athletes just as great as you are to do that in college to do it in the NFL as a whole different ball game. I think this guy could play both positions. I don't think it'll be a star at both. But why wouldn't you at least let him give it a try in the NFL early on to see if you could have him run some routes, take some screens for you, design stuff, but then also have him be a primary corner. Like to me, corner first receiver second. But why couldn't he do a little bit of both? Champ Bailey style. The longer it goes, the more it's worth finding out. You know what I mean? Like he is exceptional. Like to me, the the playmaking ability on offense is what it's easier to see. That makes any sense. I guess he was, he's graded higher as a corner as a pro prospect, which is fine. But I'd like the football in his hands also. You know what I mean? Like send him down the field a few times. Let's see what happens. Couple of couple in breakers, couple crossers, maybe a go ball here or there. That dude is amazing. First time I saw him catch a ball last night, he ran quite literally like a seven yard stop route. Turned around a little hitch, caught the ball. Then he shakes the defender for what would have been a five yard gain. Then the safety takes an angle that isn't perfect. So he outruns him and he goes untouched into the end zone for a 41 yard touchdown. Now in the league, a little bit different than against North Dakota state. I understand that. I'm not sitting here pretending like he'd be a 1000 yard wide out and the best corner in football. I saw CJ Gardner Johnson, the defensive back for the Philadelphia Eagles take issue with Robert Griffin, who had suggested that, you know, he should get to do both in the NFL or try to do both. And basically Gardner Johnson's point was, it's just different up here, man. I get it. He's good. He's talented. You guys are all fawning on him. But he basically said nobody can do it up here the way he's doing it in college. And that's probably true if we're talking about majoring in both and being the number one receiver for a team and the corner that's going to shut down the best wide receiver. I'm just saying he should be your starting corner and be drafted in the top five or top 10 where he's going to go. And then also, you should give him the occasional opportunity to touch the football. And you can't just throw him a screen every time he's out there. That's a tell. So you put him out there for 15, 17 snaps a game when you're an 11 personnel or you're spreading an offense out and three or four times you throw him the football or you give him a pop pass or you get him in jet action and hand it to him. He's just too dynamic. He's too good. Yeah. I mean, Dion Sanders obviously did that at the pro level. You mentioned champ Bailey, Charles Woodson here and there. There've been guys who've you know, sort of crossed that uncrossable threshold here and there because they were that exceptional. And who knows maybe he's one of them. But I know this just a couple of things. North Dakota State Frisky, that was fun, right? Not a division one team, whatever you call whatever the next layer down is the subdivision or FPS or whatever the names have changed used to be one double A. I don't know that. I know this. They had Colorado on their heels a little bit with a halftime lead and everything else. That was a close game. That was fun. FCS, yeah, the football championship subdivision, but North Dakota State is really good. And I think if they played that game again right now, they'd be in that game too. The difference was Colorado's offense is prolific enough and they just have athletes the likes of which Dakota State does not. Yeah, there's there's nobody to stop horn or hunter that just they don't have that. But North Dakota State is a probably a better, more complete football team in a sense. And because of that hung, when they were up 20 to 17 at the half, it was 20 to 14 with a minute or so to go in the second quarter and it ended up being a good game. Now to Colorado's credit, while I knocked their defense, which was a boring, I thought in the first half, they gave up all of six points in the second half. Yes, late in the game after they were pitching a shutout. I think they held North Dakota State to sub 100 yards over a quarter and change. So it did a lot of things after half time, made some adjustments are very, very smart. But I also thought the officiating late was weird. I thought North Dakota State shot themselves in the foot of bunch by continually bringing in their backup quarterback to do some Tim Tebowie type stuff. When Cam Miller, their starter was just picking Colorado apart early. It's not like you couldn't move either. No, he was good. Yeah, like I'm please listen, I don't know anything. I'm not sitting there. I'm not writing about North Dakota state. I'm not covering him every day in for ADR. Yeah, I saw enough. That guy do that one, the guy that was 18 out of 22 for two 77 and who ran pretty well, that guy, not the other guy, that guy. Where are you on Shador Sanders who threw for 445 yards and four touchdowns? This is such a tough question because I know that he's an excellent college football player. I am sure of that, right? That he's doing some of those things like that one long pass he threw after what was it? 15 seconds, Caleb Williams style where he ran around, dodge seven people, pump fake four dudes, heading left off his side foot, slung it a dime 50 yards down the field to somebody. You go, okay, he's a better athlete than everybody there at the college level, especially against North Dakota state. He's going to be a pro. I just don't know yet, but it's fun to watch. He's electric at a minimum. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. 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