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It's the shoes, right? You hate his shoes? :p
Roy would only hate his shoes if they were white. Lol
It's the shoes, right? You hate his shoes? :p
I'm always interested in flyers like that. Has to have football toughness though and most basketball players don't.How about this guy?
VCU basketball player Mo Alie-Cox to work out for NFL teams in April
Could be an intriguing late round / RFA possibility. 6'7" 250, lots of tools to work with there as a developmental guy as either a TE or DE.
I'm always interested in flyers like that. Has to have football toughness though and most basketball players don't.
He was a down in the dirt type of guy, played the 4-5 and was often compared to Charles Oakley (both played in the same state). Definitely has the mental makeup I think, and those physical traits are so intriguing. If the Birds were open to moving Taylor Hart to OT, they might be open to bringing in a project like this to work with.
I always think of Chevy Troutman from Pitt when these things come up. He was a beast on the basketball floor and when someone asked him how about playing football he said he didn't like to get dirty.
I just looked him up and it looks like someone might have even convinced him to try out for the Redskins but he didn't make it.
VCU basketball standout Mo Alie-Cox eyes jump to NFL
“I played football for nine years growing up,” Alie-Cox told Sporting News last spring. “I think I’ve still played football, the amount of years, longer than I played basketball. So growing up, that was something I always wanted to do. But I transferred to private school, we had like 200 kids, we didn’t have a football team. So I just had to focus on basketball, and basketball is what brought me here.”
Every potential basketball convert has the same stigma attached to them - I remember Charles Barkley saying several times that he thought you had to be a little crazy to play football, that it takes a certain mental (or lack of) disposition to knowingly run your body full speed into another human being over and over again. He does have some background - and it sounds like he's got the will to do it, that's half the battle. If we're bringing him in as undrafted FA, what would we have to lose, right? The coaches will know immediately if he's even worthy of the 90 man roster, or at least working with as a project.