The Kevin Sheehan Show - Cooley Film on Coleman & McCaffery

Episode Date: May 24, 2024

Cooley and Kevin today with Cooley's film breakdowns on Washington's 3rd round picks Brandon Coleman and Luke McCaffery. Download the PrizePicks app today and use code Sheehan for a first deposit match up to $100! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Two more Cooley film breakdowns on the show today. He's going to do Brandon Coleman. He's going to do Luke McCaffrey. We're going to get started here. and just a minute, I want to mention if you haven't rated or reviewed the show and you get an opportunity to do that, especially on Apple and Spotify, it would be much appreciated. Apple gives you a chance, as does Spotify, to rate us up to five stars if you think we deserve it. And on Apple, a quick one to two sentence review is very helpful. So if you get a chance to do that and you haven't, we would appreciate it.

Cooley and I recorded these film breakdowns earlier in the week because I'm actually away for the holiday weekend. I hope you guys enjoy the holiday weekend. But let's get started with Brandon Coleman. Brandon Coleman, the third round pick by Washington out of TCU, played tackle mostly, played some guard as well. Cooley, what do you think of Brandon Coleman? can he become this team's future left tackle? Well, I don't know what I see. I don't know what I see in Brandon Coleman.

Well, so, okay, first of all, let's talk about what we see. So Brandon Coleman is, he ran a 499, by the way. 499, 40. Super 9.40. I care literally zero about that. If I watched him play on tape, I said he runs the 5-4. I don't see him being overly fast. but he can clearly get out and run.

He doesn't, like, he looks athletic on the field. Apparently, he's got a ridiculous vertical leap and can dunk every which way, and was a tremendous basketball player. 34-inch vertical leap at the combine. Yeah. But that's pretty amazing for a dude that weighs 350 pounds. Yeah. You know he lived in Germany?

I think I did know that. So 2016. He moved to Germany when he was a kid. He didn't play very much football there. So Coleman. I seem as a really adequate pass protector at tackle. Played left tackle at TCU. Good hands.

He's got a good punch. It's not like overly physical. He's got long arms. How long are his arms? If you look that up, does he have super long arms? It looks like he does. Wingspan 84 inches. That seems awesome.

Yeah. Is it? Yeah, it is. He's a super long. long arms. Yeah. He's hard to get around. He gets his arms out there.

He extends them. He's tough to get around. He's got good feet as far as Pat's Protector. He does a really good job keeping square to the line of scrimmage. An offensive tackle doesn't really, you don't want to get your shoulders

turned especially early. It's hard to make adjustments. It's easy to give up the edge. He does a good job keeping a square base, keeping a square kickstep, and getting his hands out there. I think he's got good eyes and awareness to blitzes and stunts. He passes things off well.

It seems like he's very aware out there. He's got to, when he gets moving, like as a polar, he's got great range of the polar. Clearly, he's explosive. He can run. He's a good double team blocker. I think he understands the technique and how to double team and really work tight with an offensive guard or a tight end to come off late onto a second level player, really try to take the first level to the second level,

and come off at that point, and it's a good mesh point for him. Oh, look, I did. I wrote down big wingspan, because I just could tell. And I played at the Senior Bowl. They had him play guard a bunch at the Senior Bowl. Right. I think a lot of people project him as a guard. You see him as a tackle.

He played a lot of tackle at TCU. Yeah, he played left tackle at TCU. I think he played some guard at TCU, but most of his starts were at left tackle. The good news is he can do both of the things. Yeah. You know, in a pinch. It's always nice to have a guard, though.

If you wanted him on your roster, if you really thought of as Brandon Coleman as a guard, hey, we evaluated him as a guard, we saw him at the Senior Bowl, we talked to him, we think he's a guard, but that means we don't have to have, actually if he's a starter, you still kind of need a backup tackle, but you could move, you can shift your offensive line around. You got some versatility there.

Some of my thoughts is, I think he plays high, like really, plays upright tall. He's had a tendency to lean, though, to bend at the waist. Instead of bending at the knees, it's got a tendency to bend at the waist. And I think this is where he gets in the most trouble. It hurts him with his beat. It hurts his change the direction.

So as soon as he starts the bend, he's getting his face crossed. He's coming off blocks. He's not able to maintain his hand. He's a position blocker in the run game. He's not a physical run game blocker. He's not Trent Williams. He's going to try to get in, get hands on, and get his ass.

to where he doesn't want the defender to go. He's just going to try to quick and turn. I hate that. I hate it. He's not a movement guy in the run game either. He's not a physical one-on-one drive-you guy. He stops his feet on contact. He's not a physical power drive-you guy.

Now, all these things said, I do not know. Sometimes the way teams play and the way teams do things in the run game, and based on who's on the staff, saying that if you taught it in any specific way, but sometimes teams teach stuff weird or different. I'm a Joe Gibbs, like, we're going to draw line in the sand, and then we're going to move them that way.

Even if I didn't do it all the time, that's the way I would want to do it. But he does. He stops his feet on contact and tries to, like, pivot or pull or swing guys, get his hips around and get it acts in the way of where they're going. I think that's the best way to get beat. he gets beat a lot in the run game, a lot. He doesn't finish blocks. I'd like to see him do a better job of finishing blocks.

But I think the biggest problem, and I don't think this is desire or want to with Brandon Coleman. I think the problem with finishing blocks is when you're starting to position block guys. As soon as they regain position, you are out, you're not. It's hard to finish those blocks. And when you turn and then you're across your face, like, you just don't have the ability with your body to naturally turn back a move versus staying square where you can stay in a shuffle and,

keep your feet moving in that direction. He's got poor reactions. And again, I think he plays high. He's a waistleener, position blocker. So his reactions maybe are more technique-oriented. And go, hey, let's go back here. Let's go back to phase one. Where's the first key mistake?

Where's the first key problem? Let's play lower, let's play square, let's play with better hands. And then maybe we have better reactions in better sense. situations, not in as many bad situations. I'm concerned about his ability to sustain block, especially in space. Coming off on linebackers, coming up downfield, it's really hard for him to get on in sustained blocks. So, Coleman's a project.

Really? He's an athlete. He's got a ton of, I think, innate athletic ability and skills. He has a very good understanding of how to pass. protect. But in terms of being an every down, get it done type of guy, there's going to be a lot of positions that you're going to put him in that he's going to struggle. I do think, though, in the run game, his ability to double team blocks, to use double team blocks and work with the center, work with the tackle if he's playing guard, give him an advantage to do some things in

the run game, whereas if you're putting him more one-on-one, like you can't put him at left tackle and run at him. It's just not a thing that's going to happen. Like you can't run a weak side, run at him, then ask him to block a bigger defensive event. You're just not going to do that. Not to say that he can't continue to

build, continue to grow, that you can't coach him in the right way, that you can't teach him to play in a little bit different fashion, but I think that he's got some situations he's got to have to improve in quite a bit. All right.

Anything else on Brandon Coleman? I think the headline here is he's a project. He's got two healthy metatarsals. That's true, as far as we know. All right, we know. Let's get to Luke McCaffrey. We'll do that right after these words from a few of our sponsors. Hey guys, most of us are interested in our mental and physical well-being to a certain degree.

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are going to play in the NFL. Yeah. Well, does he have daughters? What's that? Does he have daughters? No. Okay. They've only got sons.

They have four boys. Oh, they do? Wow. And I'm actually wrong because Max McCaffrey is an American football wide receiver and coach who's an off, oh, an offensive assistant for the Miami Dolphics. Max McCaffrey. He's 30 years old. He did. He played, at least in the preseason.

I see a picture of him in a Packers uniform. And then they have Dylan McCaffrey. He's 25 years old. Playing quarterback for his dad at Northern Colorado. Yeah, I see that. He only completed 60% of his passes. They've got to work on that. Yeah, he's got to get that up.

Four boys. Christian, Max, Dylan, and Luke. Yeah. So, I mean, realistically, was his wife? Was Ed McCaffrey's wife an athlete? Had to be, right? Yeah, I think she was. I think she was like a, just look it up.

I'm pretty sure I looked this up, and my limited recall is not allowing me to remember. I'll find it. Yeah, you find that. Okay. I think Luke McCaffrey is going to be the second best McCaffrey in the NFL. I don't know, of the McCaffrey children. Yeah. It's hard to say anybody's going to be Christian.

McCaffrey met his wife, Lisa, daughter of Olympic sprinter Dave Syme. So her father was an Olympic sprinter. Hmm. But it doesn't say anything about her being an athlete. Okay? Dad's an Olympic sprinter. Yeah. So the grandfather and the father athletes, we know that for sure.

All right. What else? Sort of fast. All right. So he also played quarterback at Nebraska. Right. Another quarterback. And he played at Nebraska. So he's a guy that's only played a couple years of receiver when he transferred over to Rice.

Wouldn't enter the portal? Yeah, I remember when he played a little bit of quarterback at Nebraska because it was a big deal because he was Christian McCaffrey's brother playing quarterback at Nebraska. Right. Think if they had a run the option still. I think they did. He would have been a great triple-offrey. option quarterback. Not the old school option.

All right. For real now, Lucan Gaffrey. So he's super fast. Like it was a sprinter. You know, like, just look at dumb stuff after I'm doing this. And it's like, I don't know if he's got the ability to go down

field to win big time down the field. Like, why? Because he's a white receiver. All he did at Rice was go win vertical routes down the field. He sets his routes up. He's technical with it, and he runs by dudes over and over and over again at Rice. And he tracks the ball incredibly well, and he's able to go up and get it. He's got great ball skills.

I don't know. He's just a slot dude. Just a slot guy who's going to be tough and over the middle. It is such a weird stereotype, and maybe that's what he ends up be. The slot receiver. But he's 6'2, 200 pounds. He runs a 4-440. Right. Where's the concern that this guy who consistently won deep at Rice can't get deep?

When's the last time we saw? Well, actually, what are we talking about? I mean, we've got guys here in recent years. The Rams receiver, why am I blanking? Not Pooka Nuku, Nukua, the guy that was, that led the league in receptions. It's still like everyone's a slaw guy. The only way he gets deep is like off those boot places. I guess. That's true. And he would be more of a deep guy. Who's the best white wide receiver in the league? If it's it's, it's Cooper Cup and well, Pukinuku is Hawaiian. Yeah. Don't call him white.

Crazy? Who, Adam Thielen? Adam Thielen played everywhere. He was really good. He beat people beef. Yeah, the feeling was undrafted. He was undrafted. He was, I think you're right. Hunter Renfro's a white receiver.

Hunter Renfro, I thought he was going to be really good coming out of Clemson. Is he with the Raiders? He's with the Raiders, right? Yeah, he was last year at least. Yeah. I don't know. I don't, yeah. I mean, the point, the point is...

You like this kid. McCaffrey can get down the field. Yeah. So, okay, so one-handed catches, insane catches, great ball skills, no drops. And that's another thing with Christian, is he makes, like, no lack of attention errors. Or just for one of those, boo, dang it. I know I was paying attention, but he just doesn't make those errors. Yeah.

He's fearless, Luke McAfrey, he's tough, he's got great run-out-out-fetched catch, great-reli-rownability. good at finding open spots. It's just an all-round really good player. I think, let's go through, let's see. Late hands to the ball. Like, really, really good. We talked about his ability to track the ball to get downfield. He's also got late hands to the football.

Like his dad was a professional wide receiver in time. But by late hands, I mean, you're not running, and then the ball's 20 yards from you, and then you start putting your hands up, like, touch it. Like he's the last second hand to the ball. That's an advantage. Yeah, it's just a smart player.

Right. But it's also, you're also not giving the DB a chance to know that the ball's on its way. You're not giving the DB a chance to know the ball's on its way. And also, if anyone wants to actually go play this game or have your children play this game, watch how much faster they can run when their hands aren't over their head. Watch how much better they can jump or attack something. when they're jumping without their hands up already. It's uncanny how much better you are

without your hands up in the air as an athlete. It's really, it's a weird, it's like, the weird subconscious thing. It's like I'm coaching rec league softball, and all my girls want to turn their palm up in the air when they catch the ball, and you're like, no, your thumb down. It's so weird.

Like, you want to get in the face? It's the same thing with, like, kids as receivers. you throw a ball up to him, they put both their hands up in the air, and they start running and track it. Stop doing it. I'm sure Ed McAfee, like Luke, Luke McAfrey's six years old, and Ed's like, God damn it, Luke, put their goddamn hands down. All right, Pop. I told you once, I told you a thousand goddamn time.

I'm not going to watch this shit. Go back in the house. Do you think he was tough on his kids? When they put their hands up, trying to catch the ball, yeah, he smacked them. No dessert tonight for you. Put your hands up, I get it. I'll give you a reason to put your hands up. 6-5, Pops was.

6-5, 215. 215. Big boy. Easy, Ed. You know, the other thing, he's a good route runner. He's not Christian McCaffrey. He's crazy good as a route runner. I remember what you said about Christian McCaffrey the year he came out. You said he's a top half of the...

league draft choice if he were coming out as a wide receiver. Yeah. Yeah, he would be. He would be now. He'd be a top house of the league wide receiver if he transitioned today. Yeah. So Luke McCaffrey transitioned two years ago from quarterback. And the thing, you don't put your goddamn hands down,

you're going to play quarterback the rest of your life. That's it. You're playing quarterback. You and your brother, Max, can't do this shit. You guys thought you were quarterbacks. You're not quarterbacks. You're on McCaffrey, damn it. Get out there, run fast and keep your hands down until the ball gets there.

McCaffrey's player receiver. Okay. So he's getting better as a route runner. He's actually subtle. He's good. He does a great job of stemming route. I think he does a good job of creating subtle space. not a big-time space creator.

He could work on creating some separation. He's got to work on point of contact or press separation as well. But I think ultimately that stuff that's going to come. It's not like he's going to lack training when he goes home in the offseason. He's got plenty of it. Oh, if you ever want to watch something great, like watch Christian McCaffrey's training routine on Instagram or whatever, Snapchat or whatever he puts it on. Saying what he does.

Sure, all the McCaffreys do that. Just don't get your hands up when you're running routes. By the way, Luke McCaffrey, in 2020, he started two games at Nebraska played in seven. Six interceptions, one touchdown. They'd stop running. God damn hands over their head. It would have got to the ball.

Yeah. Yeah. Ed called me, like, that's enough. When he got to... You're not going to Northern Colorado. You're not going to make it as a quarterback. Go play receiver at Rice. Well, he...

I just like to get him with Ed McCaffrey. It's like this mean, grumpy old man. And he's not. And he's not. No, I'm sure he's amazing. When he got to Rice, he played quarterback there his first year, Rice, too. He started three games through...

Rice made him a little promise. Like, hey, bud. he can come play quarterback for us. And all the while knowing, this is McCaffrey. You know what he does. He's a receiver. All right.

He'll switcheroo. So what else? All right, let's go through it. Let's go through it one more time. Seriously. I'll try. You like him. He's a guy to me that he's a guy that can play everywhere.

He can play in the slot. He can play outside. He played running back as well. I think he played running back a little bit or Nebraska. One of the other, he's played running back. I think you just ran along. It's a quarterback at Nebraska. Yeah, maybe.

I read some where he played running back. He's a fearless, tough dude. We'll go over the middle. We'll make a catch anywhere in space, take a hit, run through a hit. Great. You run after the catch kind of guy. I think he's got quick, get to top end speed, which gives him an ability to get downfield.

He's obviously got great quicks. He can get in and out of his breaks pretty well. He needs to do a better job setting up those breaks and setting up those routes. But as of now, he still is able to create separation. He's good in zones. He can find open spots. His hands are terrific.

He makes all kinds of catches, and that's because, like we talked about, he's also late with his hand. He goes up late to the ball, attacks the ball, pious point, and it does not give that away. He makes great body adjustment to get to the ball. After the catch is good. He's a fearless blocker. He'll get after it.

When he's in the run game, he'll get after it as a blocker at all times. He is a play every snap. kind of guy. 4-4-6-40, 36-inch for quick as being a three-con and shuttle at the combine, which I don't really care, but I like a lot. And 58 receptions in 2022, 72, 71 receptions, almost 1,000 yards in 2023,

led the team in 2023. Clearly your go-to guy when you watch where they put him, how they play him. He's a stud. He's going to be a good player. Said that three times. Elmer Fudd. So he's going to be a good player. Yeah.

He's a football player. He's a football player. Luke McCaffrey. So the four players that you did film breakdowns, you've got San Ristell as a good football player. You got Luke McCaffrey as a good football player. You got Johnny Newton as a good football player. Metatarsals a side.

You don't say good. Remember, McLuhan? He's a football player. He's a football player. But Brandon Coleman of the four that you did, you're just, you know. It's a project. He's a project. All right.

Not going to say it can't happen. Not going to say it can't work out for old Brandon Coleman. There's a lot. He's got to learn. He's an athlete. Apparently a sick hoops player. I'd beat him in one-on-one. I don't think you would.

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't. You better be able to shoot threes. I'd beat him on my old goal. Your old court with the girls' basketball and the 11-foot rim? Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Make some more excuses.

All right. Good job. Actually, I have one more that I want you to do, and we can do that next week. But Jordan McGee, their fifth round linebacker at a temple, is apparently... They love him. You love him? They love him. Did I tell you that?

I just, I read it. Oh. Apparently they really like him and that he's a possibility to be a big-time contributor as a rookie, maybe even, you know, as a player, a position player. I think for sure special teams, but maybe even as a position player. All right. Thank you for doing this. All right. Chat later.

You're welcome. See you. See you. All right, there you go. Cooley with four film breakdown. over the last two days. You can tell he really likes Mikey San Ristill, and he

really likes Luke McCaffrey. Likes Johnny Newton, but not as much as the other two and thinks that Brandon Coleman is a project. Just to remind you when he did Ben Sinait a few weeks ago, really likes Ben Sinit as

a tight end and a pass catching tight end, specifically said he's still got some work to do as a blocker and he was in love with Jaden Daniels before the draft and thought that Jaden Daniels was the best quarterback with Caleb Williams included in the entire draft. So maybe we'll get him to do Jordan McGee and maybe as long as he's doing that we'll try to get him to do Dominic Campton and the seventh round pick, Javante Jean Baptiste, as well.

I don't know when he'll do those though. it's hard to get him focused for, you know, an afternoon or two to get these things done, but it is much appreciated when he does it. All right, I have one last thing to finish up with when we come back after these words from a few of our sponsors. Hey, guys, most of us are interested in our mental and physical well-being to a certain degree. And with that in mind, I'd like to welcome and introduce a new sponsor to the podcast. The new sponsor is Unified Healing, Unified spelled UniFYD Healing.

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They have beaten the Washington Heights in an incredible four straight. The final call from the great Brent Musburger, 49 years ago, tomorrow. from the old Capitol Center out in Landover or Largo or whatever they called it back then, as Golden State completed a four-game sweep of the bullets in the 1975 NBA Finals, it's referred to as the greatest upset in the history of the NBA finals. There isn't actually odds information on that series, but it's thought to be that the bullets were the heaviest favorite to get upset. in NBA finals history. They were 60 and 22, the NBA's best record during the course of the season,

led by Wes Sunseld, Elvin Hayes, Phil Schneer. They had beaten Boston in six games in the Eastern Conference finals, and they were playing this kind of upstart surprise finals participant in Golden State, led by Rick Berry. And they were a prohibitive favorite to win that series. And the fact that they got so, swept in the series was just shocking. And in that final game of that series, Al Adels, the coach of Golden State, actually got tossed from the game. Mike Reardon got into a fight with Rick Berry and some of the real tough Golden State players. They had one of the toughest centers to ever play in the NBA, Clifford Ray. He was opposite one of the toughest centers to ever play in the NBA, Wes Unseld. But Rick Berry was brilliant in that series, and the Bullets, it's the first

Bullets team I really remembered. They were only in their second year in D.C. after moving down from Baltimore, and they were already in the NBA finals. And it was a devastating loss. They really were competitive in a few of the games. They lost two of the four games by one point. lost the other two by six and eight points respectively. But that goes down as truly NBA historians will call and refer to Golden State's first title in 1975 over Washington is the biggest upset in NBA finals history. Those were great bullets teams. It would be so nice to have an NBA contender in town because it gets exciting this time. year. But that would be the first of three trips to the finals as the Washington Bullets in the

1970s. They went back and won it in 78, and then they lost it trying to defend it in 79, both of those series against Seattle. All right, done for the day. Have a great holiday weekend. I'll be back on Monday.