Game Changing Addition? Kam Chancellor

by John Morgan on Apr 30, 2010 4:10 PM PDT

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I don't know why I like Kam Chancellor so much. He just plays football the right way. He knows where the action is, plays in control, and supplements his speed with good vision and good angles. Chancellor played quarterback in high school, corner as a freshman, rover as a sophomore and free safety as a junior and senior. It impresses me when a player can get up to speed quickly. Physical intelligence, I liked it in Trent Williams and like it in Kam Chancellor. If Chancellor was straight-line slow and clumsy, he wouldn't be a prospect, but he's straight-line slow and graceful. If the speed stops him from sticking at safety, the athleticism, will and field intelligence will serve him as a linebacker. Wherever, I think he sticks and contributes.

1. 1st and 10 at TENN 25 Montario Hardesty rush for 5 yards to the Tenn 30.

Chancellor waves his arms, catches right corner Cris Hill's eye and then configures his hands into a diamond shape. Chance is playing deep center. Hill drops into "off". The left wide out motions in. Snap. Chance reads, runs up, squares outside the hole and drops Hardesty after five.

2. 2nd and 5 at TENN 30 Montario Hardesty rush for a loss of 2 yards to the Tenn 28.

Tech overloads the right and what's surely a pass blitz functions to kill the run. Chancellor starts in the box and shades the play and the hole as it changes. Left guard Cory Sullins attempts to pull out and block him, but he evades.

3. 3rd and 7 at TENN 28 Jonathan Crompton pass incomplete to Denarius Moore.

Chancellor is 15 yards deep, over the right slot. Crompton throws it out of bounds.

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1. 1st and 10 at TENN 10 Jonathan Crompton pass complete to Montario Hardesty for a loss of 3 yards to the Tenn 7.

He puts his hands into a "T" shape with a crescent top. I'm not sure what the call is, but it's emphatic and it's directed at the entire secondary. Chancellor is over right slot. His receiver runs deep. It's a screen, sniffed out and dropped for a loss.

2. 2nd and 13 at TENN 7 Montario Hardesty rush for 2 yards to the Tenn 9.

Chance is deep center. Run. Does not factor.

3. 3rd and 11 at TENN 9 Montario Hardesty rush for a loss of 2 yards to the Tenn 7.

16 yards deep center, directs coverage. Tennessee runs. Does not factor.

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So John, the question is

if you were the coach, would you start him over Babs week one?

by Blake Jensen on Apr 30, 2010 4:24 PM PDT reply actions

My name is Craig, not John, but yes.

by DJ C-Raig on Apr 30, 2010 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Sorry,

I get you two mixed up all the time.

by Blake Jensen on Apr 30, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions

I know, it's rough.

He’s a football guru, and I’m a wise ass…almost interchangeable.

by DJ C-Raig on Apr 30, 2010 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions

I guess if you two were one in the same

you would be known as Alex Gibbs.

by Blake Jensen on Apr 30, 2010 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Depends on the scheme.

But probably yeah. I’ve never been a big Babineaux fan, mind you.

by John Morgan on Apr 30, 2010 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, me either.

He seems like he would be a better compliment to Earl Thomas than Babineaux. I wonder if Carroll feels the same way. He never really minded playing the superior freshman at SC, I wonder if it translate to the NFL?

by Blake Jensen on Apr 30, 2010 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions

With the NFL changing the way it is

(more passing, more hybrid players, more spread, etc.) do you find it, I don’t quite know how to describe it, refreshing maybe, to have a “throwback” player who plays our dad’s game? I sure do.

by DJ C-Raig on Apr 30, 2010 4:25 PM PDT reply actions

Is he smart?

I don’t mind a heavy hitter but I don’t want a neanderthal out there head hunting like a certain person who now plays for the Niners.This team needs another defensive leader like Tatupu who can step in to help lead the team if Lofa gets hurt again.

by Lo Pann on Apr 30, 2010 4:29 PM PDT reply actions

Did you read the play-by-play? He's directing coverage like a Field Marshall.

Sounds like he’s football smart.

by DJ C-Raig on Apr 30, 2010 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions

This quote is also a good indication.

He just plays football the right way. He knows where the action is, plays in control, and supplements his speed with good vision and good angles. Chancellor played quarterback in high school, corner as a freshman, rover as a sophomore and free safety as a junior and senior. It impresses me when a player can get up to speed quickly.

by DJ C-Raig on Apr 30, 2010 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Damn my lazyness

Sounds good though.

by Lo Pann on Apr 30, 2010 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Is he smart?

Doesn’t need to be. Earl Thomas will be the quarterback of the two.

Talents that I covet:

Ndamukong Suh, Gerald McCoy, Sam Bradford, Mike Iupati, Golden Tate, Earl Thomas, and Freddie Barnes

by Carl Shinyama on Apr 30, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions

He looks really good when the play is in front of him

Coming up to the line to play the run or the screen. I’m just not so excited about him when the play gets behind him. Coverage skills are going to need time to develop. As a linebacker that wouldn’t be as much as a problem. But then he’d have to put on a bit more muscle to stand up to blocks. I’m just worried if he’s forced to cover Breaston or Ted Gin lined up in the slot that it could get ugly.

by Kevaru on Apr 30, 2010 4:48 PM PDT reply actions

Can't wait till camp

To see him in some more action.

I am a bear of very little brains and big words bother me.

by Topher Doll on Apr 30, 2010 6:45 PM PDT reply actions

Dang you guys had a nice draft

This dude is a load, and is guaranteed to decapitate someone covering a kick. I am curious to see if he might be a better fit as a linebacker.

IMO

by Foilhat on Apr 30, 2010 7:18 PM PDT reply actions

I said it before, and I'll say it again.

Chancellor is my favorite 3rd day pick, and of all the picks from the draft, he intrigues me the most. I was very surprised to see him drafted by the Seahawks. I figured he’d go in the 3rd round, I didn’t anticipate him being there in the 5th. I loved the pick immediately.

Let’s see what he does :)

Talents that I covet:

Ndamukong Suh, Gerald McCoy, Sam Bradford, Mike Iupati, Golden Tate, Earl Thomas, and Freddie Barnes

by Carl Shinyama on Apr 30, 2010 7:46 PM PDT reply actions

Yup, I'm with you.

by DJ C-Raig on May 1, 2010 12:51 AM PDT up reply actions

I would be fine with Babs as a nickel linebacker and special teams headhunter.

That’s where he earned all those Big Plays.

And I’d much rather have a guy who is smart, always in position and always wraps tackles than someone who relies on their speed to compensate for being out of position, and abandons his assignments to go for the highlight hit.

Who now plays for the 49ers. We shipped out the last guy who did that to the Lions…

It will be a fun matchup on Mays IF one of our veteran QBs can stay upright long enough to draw him out of position and burn him with big completions while he whiffs on highlight attempts. It will be nice to see that done by the other guys for a change.

by bleedshawkblue on May 1, 2010 11:34 AM PDT reply actions