[DJ's left nut]

I think someone said that Dee Ford looked like a 'kid brother' in how he interacts with his teammates.

I think that's probably spot on. I don't think he has the emotional maturity he needs to be a difference maker. He doesn't seem to recognize that this is some next level shit he's doing and the effort needs to match that. The intensity needs to match that.

This isn't screwing around with your buddies and relying on absurd athleticism to win while he was at Auburn. Everybody he goes against is as physically imposing as he is in some way. And while he says some of the right things, you can see in his body language (and the other things he says) that the 'right things' are just coach speak; lip-service that he's been taught to say but hasn't really internalized.

What people are calling 'laid back' reads more and more as just flat naive, immature and perhaps unintelligent. Houston and Hali are fairly laid back when they're not on the field, but when they're between the lines or when they're preparing for same, a switch is flipped.

I'm more and more concerned that the switch just isn't there for Ford. I'm hoping he isn't the good-hearted simpleton that he comes across as so often. He's moving closer and closer to Lennie from Of Mouse and Men...