Nice article on Keith and Rey
by Paragon SC on Jul 29, 2009 5:57 AM PDT
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While cameras and microphones hover around Bengals rookie Rey Maualuga, another linebacker from USC is quietly preparing for what could turn out be a Pro-Bowl-caliber season.
Keith Rivers, drafted ninth overall in 2008, returns for his second season with a new realization of just how violent the NFL can be. In Week 7 of last year, Pittsburgh receiver Hines Ward, blind-sided Rivers on a down-field block, breaking his jaw and sending tremors through the televisions of anyone watching. The team was left without their most promising linebacker and Rivers was left eating through a straw.
Prior to such an abrupt setback, Rivers was on his way to a nice season. In just over six games, Rivers racked up 37 tackles and returned a pick 39 yards against Dallas—add 10 more games on to that season and he’d be close to 100 tackles and probably another interception or two. He did show rookie mistakes at times—and was hard on himself for making them—but it’s a learning curb that nearly every player goes through.
It is going to be fun watching them play on the field together...Now Rey has to sign to make it all happen.
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The thing is. . . .
. . . .KR had “eyes and ears” in the front, back and sides of him while he roamed the field in a Trojan uniform. Always.
The pro game is a whole ball o’ wax altogether. Not saying anyone on the Bengals Defense “doesn’t” have “his back”. . . .just saying – he was a rookie, wasn’t playing in his Trojan uniform, AND there are some veterans on his team and on the opponents’ side that will see to it that he “does have” to learn the tricks of the trade. Meaning: he has to get “clocked” like that, or be “shaken from his comfort zone” by finding a weakness in the way he plays the game or sees the field during play. The fact that Hines Ward is the one who leveled him is no surprise to me. Remember a few years ago when he was popped just before the Steeler’s were getting ready for the playoffs? Broke something, an arm or his leg and didn’t get to see a major part of that year’s Steeler’s run. For Ward, it must have been “poetic justice” or an inevitable “work hazard”? For River’s and some of us Trojans, it was just something to chalk up as: Hard Knocks. Ouch!
Welcome to the NFL KR. Teach young Rey-Rey a thing or two, make him “learn” something from your experience(s) thus far.
You two are gonna play in some hella games, yo!
Fight On! (to all our 3 Trojans on the Bengals. Fight On! indeed)
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