Anyone Watch The NFL Draft this past weekend?

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As someone who watched every Cal game this year and watched most ever CCSF game he played, I can completely understand why Jackson fell. I'm rooting for him hard but he is extremely inconsistent and just not that good of a route runner. He's a bit of a wild card and I think his biggest impact will be on punt return where Devin Hester and Josh Cribbs have a new running mate for best returner in the league. On that front he is VERY good but not top 15, I don't think you can rank potential and kick return that high.

I refuse to watch the draft just because this is one of the best times of the year in sports with the NBA and NHL playoffs in full swing and I can't turn off Cavs-Wizards to see big men put on a hat in front of cameras.

The TV show aspect of the draft just doesn't interest me. The draft itself does.

I have to disagree, as a Sophmore Jackson had 59 rec for 1060 yds and 9 TD's, he also had 4 punt returns for TD's, notice I said Punt Returns because he did not return KO's, if that were the case he probably would have returned six for TD's. Coming into 07 he was one of the Heisman favorites and the first game against Tennesee he looked electrifying. After that game teams stopped kicking to him, he no longer had a chance to look like an All America. As far as the recieving game he was getting doubled and triple teamed all year, and it did not help that Nate Longshore totally fell apart after the injury against Oregon. With a health Longshore Cal would have won the National Championship and Jackson would have won the Heisman, if you don't believe me look at the first five games of the season (07)

[amat]

As someone who watched every Cal game this year and watched most ever CCSF game he played, I can completely understand why Jackson fell. I'm rooting for him hard but he is extremely inconsistent and just not that good of a route runner. He's a bit of a wild card and I think his biggest impact will be on punt return where Devin Hester and Josh Cribbs have a new running mate for best returner in the league. On that front he is VERY good but not top 15, I don't think you can rank potential and kick return that high.

I refuse to watch the draft just because this is one of the best times of the year in sports with the NBA and NHL playoffs in full swing and I can't turn off Cavs-Wizards to see big men put on a hat in front of cameras.

The TV show aspect of the draft just doesn't interest me. The draft itself does.

I have to disagree, as a Sophmore Jackson had 59 rec for 1060 yds and 9 TD's, he also had 4 punt returns for TD's, notice I said Punt Returns because he did not return KO's, if that were the case he probably would have returned six for TD's. Coming into 07 he was one of the Heisman favorites and the first game against Tennesee he looked electrifying. After that game teams stopped kicking to him, he no longer had a chance to look like an All America. As far as the recieving game he was getting doubled and triple teamed all year, and it did not help that Nate Longshore totally fell apart after the injury against Oregon. With a health Longshore Cal would have won the National Championship and Jackson would have won the Heisman, if you don't believe me look at the first five games of the season (07)

I'm a big fan of Cal, a huge fan in fact I picked them to win the Pac 10 but National Championship? That's science fiction, LSU was thebest team college football has seen since those great Miami teams imo.

Towards the end of the year it was Lavelle Hawkins who was drawing the double teams and had a much more productive Senior year in the passing game. I'm not denying that Jackson was a great kick returner but he was inconsistent.

In fact Cal became a running team towards the end of the season with Forsett because of that inconsistency. He was a great homerun threat but his poor route running rendered him pretty much ineffective for anything under 20 yards. Also, Jackson hears footsteps a lot. Lowell Cohn, a columnist out here, ate him alive for short arming a few balls on the final drive against Oregon State. If he catches those balls over the middle, Cal would have had their number one ranking and who knows how the season plays out from there.

I sound like I'm down on him, I'm not. Just don't think he's a top 15 pick nor do I think he was the best receiver in the country. I thought Percy Harvin was.