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Football Grump

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3015 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

Not necessarily.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

I could see that, yeah.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

I think he has some athleticism.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

I like the way he gets downhill, dude.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

The way he attacks blockers, the pad level and leverage is something that you see right away, but it's just the way he launches himself into them.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

He really does attack blockers.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

He doesn't take them on.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

He brings the fight to them.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

He hits them with force, gets right in their chest, has the excellent pad level, and he understands how to use that leverage to just lift and shed pretty quickly.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

I think also he does have short area quickness.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

I'm not really sure how...

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

good he is as an athlete in terms of like sideline to sideline or anything like that but when he gets up close to like a lumbering lineman trying to lay a block on him he does have the short area quickness to just avoid the block entirely at times so there's that i think he closes on runners really really well too like he gets square he gets really really wide with his arms so that there's not a lot of lanes and he adjusts like i said that short area quickness

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

when a ball carrier is trying to make a last second move, he's, he's always keeping his feet moving to stay square when he makes the tackle.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

And he has a strength to bring people down.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

I do think that he could add some arm strength to help with tackles.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

I think at times there's some grip strength issues, uh,

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

which I think a lot of his strength comes from really, really good pad level and leverage, which is the way it's supposed to be, by the way, which means that he can continue to grow with strength simply by hitting the weight room.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

It's not a technique thing anymore.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

It's just weights and probably steroids.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
Giants Sign Daniel Faalele + LB Preview | 142

But...