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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1055656" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>That's really an interesting hypothesis. I honestly never considered it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That's odd. People who grew up with those books on the reading list are rarely still awake and posting on the interwebs at 11 PM.</p><p></p><p>Unless we had to get up to go to the bathroom.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Dude's playing like an <em>early </em>first-rounder. Remember, he was the first linebacker drafted, so you could comfortably argue that the general consensus (not universal, but <em>general</em> consensus) is that he was the best linebacker in the draft. And he's damned well playing like it.</p><p></p><p>If he'd been available in 2009, and we picked him instead of Matthews, nobody would have *****ed for 10 years that we wasted the 5th overall pick.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Walker had a lot of issues in his first couple of seasons, most of them having to do with maturity, judgment, and decisionmaking. I give the man tons of credit, he listened to Lafleur and got past a lot of that - especially the maturity and temper. Lafleur really did a lot to get through to him, and it paid off.</p><p></p><p>But one thing he never did get past is his in-the-moment decisionmaking. Athleticism aside, he just consistently makes poor (and incredibly <em>wrong</em>) decisions in the heat of the moment. And some of them are just <em>really </em>dumb. I think he simply lacks the natural instincts to process what he's seeing and make the right reactionary decisions in the rapid-fire flow of the game.</p><p></p><p>Wonderlic scores are not always a definitive indicator, but sometimes a Wonderlic score of 9 can help explain a lot. It seems as though his brain simply doesn't work the way Cooper's brain does. No offense to the guy, I deeply respect and admire how hard he's worked to make himself an NFL starter, but I just can't help wondering whether he's able to take himself to the next level. It just feels to me (deep down in my gut) that maybe he's topped out, and we're not going to see much more from him.</p><p></p><p>I hope I'm wrong, because I genuinely like the man and hope for his success. But 3 years in, it's now come down to whether or not he can demonstrate that he can put it all together when it counts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1055656, member: 18006"] That's really an interesting hypothesis. I honestly never considered it. That's odd. People who grew up with those books on the reading list are rarely still awake and posting on the interwebs at 11 PM. Unless we had to get up to go to the bathroom. Dude's playing like an [I]early [/I]first-rounder. Remember, he was the first linebacker drafted, so you could comfortably argue that the general consensus (not universal, but [I]general[/I] consensus) is that he was the best linebacker in the draft. And he's damned well playing like it. If he'd been available in 2009, and we picked him instead of Matthews, nobody would have *****ed for 10 years that we wasted the 5th overall pick. Walker had a lot of issues in his first couple of seasons, most of them having to do with maturity, judgment, and decisionmaking. I give the man tons of credit, he listened to Lafleur and got past a lot of that - especially the maturity and temper. Lafleur really did a lot to get through to him, and it paid off. But one thing he never did get past is his in-the-moment decisionmaking. Athleticism aside, he just consistently makes poor (and incredibly [I]wrong[/I]) decisions in the heat of the moment. And some of them are just [I]really [/I]dumb. I think he simply lacks the natural instincts to process what he's seeing and make the right reactionary decisions in the rapid-fire flow of the game. Wonderlic scores are not always a definitive indicator, but sometimes a Wonderlic score of 9 can help explain a lot. It seems as though his brain simply doesn't work the way Cooper's brain does. No offense to the guy, I deeply respect and admire how hard he's worked to make himself an NFL starter, but I just can't help wondering whether he's able to take himself to the next level. It just feels to me (deep down in my gut) that maybe he's topped out, and we're not going to see much more from him. I hope I'm wrong, because I genuinely like the man and hope for his success. But 3 years in, it's now come down to whether or not he can demonstrate that he can put it all together when it counts. [/QUOTE]
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