Terrible.

If I were his piano teacher, I'd tell him to quit playing flat-wristed. He's got a ton of shoulder tension, too. The dude probably is terrible at his scales outside of the ones that fit the hand well like B and E major.

He's really got to get more of an elastic elbow. He has absolutely no power to his sound. He's playing from the base instead of allowing his weight to distribute sound into the right hand and the melody.

I could also dig at his improvisational choices, but that would take too much time.

If I had to guess and kinda just simplify that critique... I would say that his flaws are a mix of being too strong and knowing it - therefore artificially altering his stroke, trying to be delicate/fancy and coming off stiff - and he probably hasn't regularly practiced in a looong time.

Anyway...

GET OFF THE KIDS BACK CURMUDGEON HE'S A MUSICAL PRODIGY/QB SOUL CRUSHING DEMON.

How many guys in the NFL do all 3 of those things well?

Also how is he terrible in coverage when he wasnt asked to play in coverage? Same thing with Justin Houston

How can you be sure I even have a mother? :hmmm:

Justin Houston...

Because eggs that aren't fertilized either get flushed or eaten...

I bet this guy has moAr sacks his first 8 games than Tyson Jackson had in five seasons with the Chiefs. 9 Sacks.

Well it may take D Ford more than 8 games to get 9 sacks but he will way more disruptive in the backfield and get notice.

I'm putting it out there that Dee Ford will get 9 sacks his first 8 games. Over/Under ?

Justin Houston plays in coverage all the time and he's pretty good at it.

He articulates very well, I will say that. If he used arm weight more to his advantage, he could have a much easier time using the bounceback of the piano keys to do the staccato for him. The fact that he plays so flat-wristed seems to me that he's doing all that work from fingers. Yes, you need active and energetic fingers to play good staccato, but he's gotta be doing more work than he needs to be doing. It's not efficient playing, which is preventing him from doing some REALLY cool things in his sound, like producing a solid forte with absolutely zero tension in his posture or his arms.

From listening, it appears he's a very intelligent individual who discovered voice leading completely on his own. It's a shame that he hasn't had more formal training, because this guy could have been REALLY good.

Dude, you're awesome. Hilarious.

And awesome.

:clap:

Because I'd say it's a pretty safe assumption to predict that a guy that hardly ever dropped into coverage is going to struggle dropping back to cover NFL caliber receivers.

Houston got beat pretty badly in coverage as a rookie.

SNR should hook up with my ex, they could talk that talk all night long while boring each others brains out together over American Idol.

You had me intrigued until American Idol.

It's probably a good thing you divorced her.

LMAO He isnt covering shit.