Yesterday, the New York Daily News ran a piece on the Jets' newly drafted cornerback Dwight Lowery. A fourth round pick out of San Jose State, Lowery is known as a film junkie, who obsessively studies his opponents in the weeks preceding each and every one of his games. The article points out that Lowery is so impressive with his football knowledge that during a pre-draft interview with Chargers coach Norv Turner, he called out Turner on using the exact same play 14 years prior, when he was the offensive coordinator in Dallas. It turns out Lowery was right.
The justification that writer Rich Cimini gives is not that Lowery knows every play in football, but that he has followed Deion Sanders' career very closely. Sanders was the opposing cornerback for the 49ers in that game. However, is that really a justification? Isn't it equally impressive that Lowery knows or at least can recognize every play of the extremely played out career of Deion Sanders? If you were Norv Turner, wouldn't you kick him out of your office right there? I'm sorry, I'm sure Norv wants a cornerback who knows exactly what he's doing, but it's just not worth it to keep someone that can call you out on a mistake slot route that you ran in 1943. Aren't you a little weirded out by this? My prediction: Lowery ends up getting into a fight with coach Eric Mangini at some point this season when he calls him out on some sort of botched play.
- D. Spell
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