Summary: outstanding reads and reaction time. Quick. Very athletic. Brave tackler. Needs a fairly normal amount of time to develop for the next level, but he is not a reach/project. He's a stud.
Play 1: plays inside CB on a 1-high defense, doing a superb switch from backpedal to breaking forward on a lazy hook route by the receiver for the INT. Excellent example of a good read.
Play 2: Gets sucked in on a play-action and gets beat, but sprints to make an acrobatic INT on an underthrown ball. Did his job.
Play 3: 2-high away from trips side. Recognizes that inside receiver is coming to him a million miles away and makes the good INT on a lame duck throw. Fantastic read.
Play 4. Goaline D. Reads QB eyes, slides along line, jumps a route that isn't even his guy, and robs and underthrown pass.
Play 5. 2-high coverage. Play breaks down as QBs top 2 reads are covered. Extended play has Z receiver breaking up field, which Sai recognizes and breaks up the play. Excellent read.
Play 6. plays coverage CB on inside receiver, gets beat on out move, but breaks up play after making up ground on pass that is thrown to the wrong shoulder. Sai got lucky.
Play 7. Delayed TE drag that is almost always open up the middle. RILB #5 is fooled and the TE gets loose and #5 is late breaking on the ball but is only 5 yards away from him when the ball is thrown. Sai is 10 yards away. Sai stops him for only a 2 yard YAC while the ILB is still 5 yards away. Excellent break on the ball. Good stick too.
Play 8. Cover 2. Sai backpedals and picks off a lollypop of an underthrown fade
Play 9. Must be short yardage situation, because Sai is lone safety. Recognizes it's not a run and immediately runs to help his CB who gets beat on the inside. Great read. Great pick.
Play 10. Another case where it's not his man and isn't the closes guy, but he comes from 10 yards away to limit YAC to 2 yards.
Play 11. Blocked FG. Poor block by phyisically overmatched #21 = predictable blocked kick by Sai.
Play 12. Almost gets run over for a first down because his opponent is running and he's not, but his teammates help him out.
Play 13. Long pass to not his guy. Breaks up the pass. Meh.
Play 14. Fairly plain vanilla tackle.
Play 15. Breaks on a tackle way early from 9 yards away and stops it for zero YAC. Amazing reaction.
Play 16. Fairly plain vanilla tackle.
Play 17. Dramatic dive on an uncatchable ball. But his coverage meant that the ball was purposely thrown out of bounds.
Play 18. Dude! It's a beautiful screen play. 5 on 2 and it should go for a TD. But Sai does it again! He breaks on a catch 12 yards away, is 10 yards away when it is caught at the 43, flies past the blockers before they can even react, and stops the guy for only 2 YAC. He is playing at a different speed.
Play 19. Dude! 2-high and the play is nowhere near him. He is 15 yards away from the ball and there is no reason he should be the tackler, but he breaks on it and tackles it for less than 2 YAC.
Play 20. Goalline. Slips through the line for the tackle for no gain.
Just watched Sai's hudl tape. This kid is a baller. He plays all over the field. WR, CB, S and even ran a wild cat play!! On one play a TE catches the ball and Sai runs right at and THROUGH the guy crashing him to the turf. Best part? You hear someone in the background say, "holy shit". This is just one of many "sticks" this kid gets, he knows how to tackle. Also, his awareness and ability to play the ball while it is in the air is high level. I think this kid is gunna be good!!
It gets me fired up whenever we get a recruit. Glad to have ya, Sai.
Here's his junior defensive highlights.
http://www.hudl.com/v/2GUKgc
Summary: outstanding reads and reaction time. Quick. Very athletic. Brave tackler. Needs a fairly normal amount of time to develop for the next level, but he is not a reach/project. He's a stud.
Play 1: plays inside CB on a 1-high defense, doing a superb switch from backpedal to breaking forward on a lazy hook route by the receiver for the INT. Excellent example of a good read.
Play 2: Gets sucked in on a play-action and gets beat, but sprints to make an acrobatic INT on an underthrown ball. Did his job.
Play 3: 2-high away from trips side. Recognizes that inside receiver is coming to him a million miles away and makes the good INT on a lame duck throw. Fantastic read.
Play 4. Goaline D. Reads QB eyes, slides along line, jumps a route that isn't even his guy, and robs and underthrown pass.
Play 5. 2-high coverage. Play breaks down as QBs top 2 reads are covered. Extended play has Z receiver breaking up field, which Sai recognizes and breaks up the play. Excellent read.
Play 6. plays coverage CB on inside receiver, gets beat on out move, but breaks up play after making up ground on pass that is thrown to the wrong shoulder. Sai got lucky.
Play 7. Delayed TE drag that is almost always open up the middle. RILB #5 is fooled and the TE gets loose and #5 is late breaking on the ball but is only 5 yards away from him when the ball is thrown. Sai is 10 yards away. Sai stops him for only a 2 yard YAC while the ILB is still 5 yards away. Excellent break on the ball. Good stick too.
Play 8. Cover 2. Sai backpedals and picks off a lollypop of an underthrown fade
Play 9. Must be short yardage situation, because Sai is lone safety. Recognizes it's not a run and immediately runs to help his CB who gets beat on the inside. Great read. Great pick.
Play 10. Another case where it's not his man and isn't the closes guy, but he comes from 10 yards away to limit YAC to 2 yards.
Play 11. Blocked FG. Poor block by phyisically overmatched #21 = predictable blocked kick by Sai.
Play 12. Almost gets run over for a first down because his opponent is running and he's not, but his teammates help him out.
Play 13. Long pass to not his guy. Breaks up the pass. Meh.
Play 14. Fairly plain vanilla tackle.
Play 15. Breaks on a tackle way early from 9 yards away and stops it for zero YAC. Amazing reaction.
Play 16. Fairly plain vanilla tackle.
Play 17. Dramatic dive on an uncatchable ball. But his coverage meant that the ball was purposely thrown out of bounds.
Play 18. Dude! It's a beautiful screen play. 5 on 2 and it should go for a TD. But Sai does it again! He breaks on a catch 12 yards away, is 10 yards away when it is caught at the 43, flies past the blockers before they can even react, and stops the guy for only 2 YAC. He is playing at a different speed.
Play 19. Dude! 2-high and the play is nowhere near him. He is 15 yards away from the ball and there is no reason he should be the tackler, but he breaks on it and tackles it for less than 2 YAC.
Play 20. Goalline. Slips through the line for the tackle for no gain.
Welcome to Cal Sai!
Just watched Sai's hudl tape. This kid is a baller. He plays all over the field. WR, CB, S and even ran a wild cat play!! On one play a TE catches the ball and Sai runs right at and THROUGH the guy crashing him to the turf. Best part? You hear someone in the background say, "holy shit". This is just one of many "sticks" this kid gets, he knows how to tackle. Also, his awareness and ability to play the ball while it is in the air is high level. I think this kid is gunna be good!!
Well let’s hope this one last longer than two weeks.
Maybe USC will offer him as WR and he will flip.
He deleted all other mentions of other schools on his socials. I think he’s locked in locked in
DBU lets goooo!! Welcome to Berkeley!