Comments on: Dre Kirkpatrick is close to making his debut

By: dallascowboysdishingthereal

dallascowboysdishingthereal — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:48:21 +0000

This is the CB that didn’t know how to back peddle right? Like a secretary that can’t type….

By: voyager6

voyager6 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:34:05 +0000

Best case is he is put in to the game in nickel situations to cover a specific receiver for a few games, just to get his feet wet. Dre won’t start at CB until the Bengals are out of the playoff race, as Marvin won’t take the chance his rookie CB could lose a game and tank the season for them.

Marvin Lewis is known to let more-talented players sit, instead playing veterans that he is comfortable with. See Pat Sims. John Thornton has repeatedly told the story that he had to tell Marvin to play Sims as Sims was clearly better than he was. You can argue that Burfict starting is counter, but there were no other choices to fix the LBs after the defense didn’t show up the first two games.

By: mikebrownfaux

mikebrownfaux — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:24:02 +0000

The key word here is “could”, the thing about draft picks is that you don’t know if they’re even good enough to play in the NFL. On top of that, it was reported that he had never learned the art of backpedaling in College. It’s one thing to plug in and play a first round Guard, Running Back, Linebacker, etc. but Corner is a VERY, VERY, FAST part of the game. We all know the speed of the NFL is light years faster than even the SEC. It’s a hit or miss with draft picks, so unless he proves to be an undisputed upgrade over what we already have, I don’t see a reason for throwing him in the game, even after the bye week.