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Release Year: 2020 / Eliza Hittman / Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a movie starring Ryan Eggold, Théodore Pellerin, and Talia Ryder. A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy / 8 of 10 Star / genre: Drama / UK. Never rarely sometimes always cast. BO BURNHAM LOOKS LIKE THE ONE REDEEMABLE MAN IN THE MOVIE & THAT AINT TOO FAR FROM REALITY. I've been wondering why I love this series so much, clearly it's a derivative of the MCU. This is awesome.
Never rarely sometimes always review. Since my running back rankings seemed to be liked by many, here is my breakdown of the off-ball linebacker class. You won't find any 3-4 outside backers here - those will be among the edge rushers. 1. Isaiah Simmons, Clemson At 6’4”, 230 pounds, Simmons is an athletic freak, who just blew up the combine with a front-seven best 4. 39 in the 40, an 11-foot broad jump and a 39-inch vert. Since those numbers started being archived in 2003, he is the only linebacker to hit those kind of marks. However, that athleticism is a part of what makes him a great prospect. While he was tagged as that SAM or star backer for the Tigers, he lined up all over the field. Last season Simmons spent at least 100 snap at inside and outside linebacker, either safety spot and nickelback, with the most (299) coming at inside backer. This guy is just a rare breed with the ability to blow up people as a MIKE backer as well as make plays outside the numbers as a deep middle safety. Wherever you line him up, he comes downhill against the run and usually is very dependable tackler. He was heavily utilized as an edge-setter for the Clemson D, but he also has the quick acceleration to track ball-carriers down from behind coming off the backside of zone run plays, where excels at transitioning his speed when bending his running track while reacting to the ball-carrier. In addition to being a tough task in the box, Simmons also has the athletic tools to carry guys down the seams or run with them on deep corner and out routes, plus the length to reach around guys and disrupt them at the catch point. With his freakish, you can ask him to cover pretty much any area of the field, whether it’s half-field and deep middle responsibilities or most definitely sinking in a Tampa-2 style look. While he is very long-limbed a linebacker, Simmons has no problems changing directions. He has incredible closing speed, as he transitions for shuffling to coming upfield on underneath completions or shutting down scrambling quarterbacks, which will be a huge asset against some of these new-era mobile signal-callers. on 59 targets in coverage over the last two years, Simmons has given up just one touchdown, while intercepting four passes and taking one to the end-zone himself, plus last season he surrendered a passer rating of just 65. 3 in coverage. As good as the linebacker/safety hybrid was in coverage, he actually said he prefers to rush the passer on third downs and he was already a highly dangerous blitzer from the slot in college. Simmons is that kind of bendy, flexible athlete, who can work his way around blockers and somehow find a way through to the quarterback when being sent on a blitz. He also shows impeccable timing without committing offside penalties and when needed, he was already utilized as a QB spy at times. As a tackler he has some explosion in those hips to jolt ball-carriers backwards when he arrives at them, plus an innate ability to wrestle guys down even on weird angles and without being able to wrap up. You made a bunch of crucial shoe-string tackles for Clemson as well, including one in the fourth quarter of the semifinal versus Ohio State after picking off a pass earlier already. However, with his speed, Simmons seems to overrun some plays, as he is eager to make the stop. Most NFL teams will feel like Simmons is not a natural fit at any spot of their defense and as a true linebacker people will want to devalue him, At this point, Simmons instincts as a run defender on the interior are somewhat lacking compared to other guys who have spent four years at those spots and he has very limited experience taking on and shedding offensive linemen. However invests that high draft pick in Simmons should use him as a chess piece to maximize the payback of his versatile skill-set. While most NFL analysts and scouts will be looking for a comparison, I can’t really find one and I would not try to him slot into a traditional role. Let him play SAM in your base sets and then use him a variety of ways on passing downs, either giving them coverage duties in zone most linebackers would struggle with, blitzing him from different spots to keep the offense guessing or straight-up taking guys in the slot one-on-one that would present mismatches for most other defenders. While I hate using terms like this, Simmons actually is that type of once-in-a-lifetime prospect. 2. Kenneth Murray, Oklahoma The first thing that stands out about Murray is the fact he plays with a ton of energy. He trusts his eyes and just goes where they take him. He will shoot gaps when things open up and plays the run in an unconventional way at times. He has that kind of natural feel for how to work his way around blockers in space and find creases to wiggle through and get his paws on the ball-carrier. Despite not being small at 6’2”, 235 pounds, he might not be able to shed offensive linemen at a high rate, but he will attack the chest of blockers, plus he is kind of sturdy and has very long arms he can use to keep distance between himself and the opponent. Murray also seems to have the type of frame that should allow him to still add some mass and not lose a lot of explosiveness. Murray can stop and re-accelerate as quick as anybody at the linebacker position, as he sorts through traffic. Murray was asked to run downfield straight away and take away anything up the seams by the Sooners on a lot of snaps, but then he aggressively works his way back upfield without being made look silly by ball-carriers for the most part. When the Sooner backer sees the quarterback decide to run, he takes off like a rocket and quickly shuts things down. Overall negates a lot of angles towards to the edge and closes space in a heartbeat, plus then he finds ways to bring guys down, often lasso-ing and twisting them to the ground, leading to a low missed tackle rate. Murray will not slow down just because somebody puts his body in the way either and that relentless pursuit is highly impressive considering how much the Sooner defense is usually on the field thanks to their quick-scoring offense and bad overall D, which led to some ridiculous effort plays. You also saw him line up on the edge at times as well and run the arc with a better burst and lean than most pass rushers. With that being said, the explosive linebacker gets too much on his toes at times and doesn’t stay balanced all the way. He will just completely give up his backside discipline and run all the way over the blocking action to make an impact on too many occasions. He needs to do a better job of working his way through reads more methodically, even if I like the instincts and aggressiveness in general, while he has the length and some jolt in his hands, his ability to deconstruct blocks is definitely not where is needs to be. Simmons is a little late with realizing who has the ball in his hands as well and as much as I like the upside in that area, according to PFF he surrendered a passer rating of 118. 4 in coverage last season. At the next level Murray is probably best suited as a WILL linebacker, who can run around and make plays. That’s what he is ? a playmaker and a source of energy for the rest of your defense. You will have to reign him in a little to be a more assignment-sound defender instead of a clean-up specialist for a bad defense, but his skill-set fits what NFL evaluators are looking for really well and he doesn’t rely on his natural gifts ? as good as they are with a 4. 52 in the 40 and explosive leaping numbers ? as his hustle stands above all of them. 3. Patrick Queen, LSU At 6’1”, 227 pounds Queen is slightly undersized for the position, but he plays with a lot of fire under his ass. As good as the two guys above him are, from sideline to sideline I’m not sure if there is anybody quite as spectacular when it comes to being able to basically run parallel to the line of scrimmage and somehow meeting the ball-carrier right at the white line. Queen scrapes over the top of blockers routinely without having to retreat and chases guys down from behind he just shouldn’t, considering where he lined up originally. He truly has that lightning speed to actually run around traffic on the interior and get behind it to take down the ball-carrier at times, plus he has an innate ability to turn his body different directions and somehow still make plays when he seems to be completely out of position. For as slight as Queen is built, I have seen him put a couple of pulling guards on their back when meeting them at full speed before they could even load up their punch and he doesn’t wait to meet lead-blockers behind the hole either. In coverage he shows incredible range and was all over the field for the Tigers during their playoff run. Queen does a great job reading the eyes of the quarterback in zone coverage and has the ability to cover a ton of ground laterally as well as with fluid pedal to get down the seams. His one pick last season came against Tua Tagovailoa. Queen was asked to show blitz and then drop out to various spots for the Tigers, including at times almost playing as a robber safety on third-and-long. Moreover, he displays very loose and patient hips to mirror guys out of the backfield and will draw a lot of attention for his ability to cover dynamic backs one-on-one or even carry guys downfield on wheel routes. You see him actually run down wide receivers in full stride as well on tape. Queen is like a blur on blitzes and side-steps a lot of backs trying to square him up. He makes some centers look absolutely foolish, as they try to slide in front of him and you see them desperately trying to grab him as he shoots through the A-gap. When Queen is closing in on quarterbacks as they scramble outside or whatever, he always seems to surprise them with how quickly he arrives there and he influences those throws immensely. As a tackler he really shoots those hips into contact