BOL Round Table

First of all Safeties cover TE's in the box...The TD in the Iron Bowl was not a situation where Mark Barron was beaten..He was not in coverage and he was trying to cover the deep middle. He had perfect postion on that play. I have no clue what you saw that leads you to say he was out of position. Everyone I was watching the game with thought the ball was going to be picked off. We were actuallly halfway celebrating before the ball slipped by him.

My subscription to BOL is worth way more than $100 a year now that we have someone who is better at analyzing the value of college players than the actual NFL scouts.

What I was actually saying was: My subscription to BOL is worth way more than $100 a year now that we have someone who is better at analyzing the value of college players than the actual NFL scouts.

No, what you were saying is that you don't think we should be discussing the opinions of the scouts on this message board since we are not scouts.

Nope. If I'm going to name a soon-to-be first round pick from this team as overrated, I have to pick Barron. Since the point of this thread was to do just that, then that's what I did. I guess you're too insecure to have a discussion about it since you couldn't be bothered to give us your opinion - not that your opinion matters. Besides BamaLivesFootba, you're easily the dumbest poster we have.

I never said they wouldn't be first round picks but two years from now, even with his high bust potential, we will probably still be talking about DK and will have forgotten Barron. Only time will tell, but after a couple of seasons, just remember I told you so.

My issue with your opinion is you refer to Barron as "pretty badly overrated" and use the comment that he isn't consistent as proof. I don't know how you could possibly say that. He was as consistently good as any player I've seen over a 4 year period. He certainly isn't "all or nothing" as you suggested.

I can remember two deep balls that he got beat for...both in Iron Bowls. Todd's pump fake on a hitch and go in 09 caught him and AU scored their final TD because of it, and the previously mentioned TD in 2010's Iron Bowl. You could argue he had trouble with pump fakes and bit too hard up until last season but I don't remember him being beat deep once in 2011. I remember him consistently making plays in the run and pass game though. It's easy to remember when a DB messes up because it's usually a big play but there were a million other plays you don't remember because Barron was doing his job. Put it this way...I never worried about him like I did Dre at some points. I always had confidence in Barron, he's rock solid. That's as consistent as you can get.

It's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I just think you're way off like most on this board. I think Barron is the safest 1st round pick outside of Trent.

Now who is claiming to know more than the experts? Even they aren't putting that much faith in him. So you think he's underrated? Why didn't you just state that instead of looking like an ass for the last 4 hours?

the experts are saying exactly what I said. He's the safest pick in the draft and he gives whatever team's secondary he ends with instant credibility. Those are damn near exact quotes from "experts"

No, you're much higher on him than the NFL.com bio suggests they are on him. So you think they don't have him rated highly enough?

I dont have time to argue things youre obviously wrong about. THere are to many tweets and reports going around saying exactly what im saying from experts for me to take you serious. If you havent seen them I suggest you look around.

Look, if you're only interested in parroting what everyone else says, why did you even open a thread with overrated/underrated in the title?

I could see Chapman having a solid career if he gets the right situation. He's certainly on my underrated list.

I'm still not sold on Smelley in the NFL. I think he can spend 2-3 years on a roster but really do agree with everyone on his size holding him back too much. He's definitely worth a last round pick and would easily be a steal as a FA, so I think he's rated fairly.