Poona Ford

[stanhin]

He's having a great first half for Seattle, and the announcers repeatedly are praising him for "destroying" and "blowing up" various offensive plays.

 

[mchammer]

He's having a great first half for Seattle, and the announcers repeatedly are praising him for "destroying" and "blowing up" various offensive plays.

Note that Texags use Poona as a joke for B12 defense. Another backfire.

 

[Statalyzer]

I wish I had saved the reddit post a couple of years ago from an Alabama "SEC is Almighty" fan who said something like "Poona is a 5-foot-8 tryhard who will likely never play a down in the NFL".

 

[ViperHorn]

Poona had a good game, but he also showed what we all should have known - he can overcome straight on blockers, but he is slow coming off blockers who hit him at an angle. If you saw the tackle where he twisted the runner that caused a fumble in every level of football except the NFL, pay attention to the next play which was an off tackle run. He gets hit and tangled up with the guard delaying his path to the ball carrier just enough to cause him to whiff on the tackle a yard from the line of scrimmage.

He will learn either how to escape those blocks or how to adjust his angle to the ball carrier.

 

[Desperado]

I work out at a gym in Fort Worth that hosts college players in the winter getting ready for the combine. Poona was there after his last season. I talked with him a couple of times. I'm barely 6' tall and I was at least 2" inches taller than him although he was a bit (a lot) wider than me. Still, I was thinking there's no way a guy his size is going to make it in the NFL. Lo and behold, he proved me wrong. I guess there's a lot to be said about the size of the fight in the dog rather than the size of the dog in the fight.

 

[Joe Fan]

 

[ViperHorn]

Interesting concept - an NFL Coach admitting he made a player evaluation mistake.

 

[Chinstrap]

From his draft in 2018.....nuff said.