RamFan503 still not completely getting my point:
I actually think we're talking in circles a bit. The reality IMO is that you don't go for a guy like JJ if you simply plan on him batting away the ball. The guy is 5'10" on tip toes. The guy IS big plays. Yeah - he'll get burned at times. But he wasn't brought in to be just solid. He was brought in to be a game changer. And IMO, he has done just that for the plus far more than he has done it for the minus. Take into account that he is likely to get the toughest assignment on the field. Think he is not going to get burned from time to time? Think he isn't better served by occasionally trying to guess? If the D is playing right, JJ's man also has at least one more set of eyes on him. He's the BEST RECEIVER ON THE FIELD. If JJ can go ones on him for the most part, how huge is that? I think our problems lie elsewhere.
I'm just not explaining myself very well and I can tell that because of the bolded part you wrote. I expect every CB to get burned occasionally. He has been burned many times and you haven't heard me say squat about them.
Let me try a different tack. Almost every day in practice I'd hear how Jenkins was shutting Givens down. How did he accomplish that? He did it by maintaining tight coverage and not by trying to make the highlight reel. The two incidences I'm complaining about are different from the other times he's been burned. At least they are in my mind.
So while I agree with much of what you said above, it doesn't address the Diva mentality I see in him. When he's in the spot light in games he plays much different than he does at practice. He's going to need to get a lot of turnovers if he's going to overcome the not so good performance he turned in last year. But it's only his second year and maybe he'll get his head straight. Or not.