Ever since ESPN’s Louis Riddick dubbed new Tennessee Titans cornerback Elijah Molden “an absolute jedi in the slot” those who follow the team can’t get enough of this comparison.
But what exactly did Riddick mean when he said it?
Molden’s former head coach at Washington, Jimmy Lake, sat down with NFL Network to try and explain what the “Monday Night Football” commentator meant by the description.
“Well, I think what he was trying to say is he plays a different game — above checkers, above chess — jedi is somewhere like way up here. That’s what I think he was trying to say. And you can see that, the way he diagnoses plays, the way he covers, the way he blitzes, he plays zone; this guy can do it all. He was a leader for us, he made all of our checks; he’s going to walk into the Tennessee Titans, he’s going to learn that playbook inside and out… that’s what type of worker they’re getting, that’s what type of work he did when he arrived here. He already played in an NFL-style defense that we run here at Washington and that’s going to have a big-time carryover into a lot of his success he’s going to have at the NFL level.”
Washington head coach @CoachLakeUDUB explains why @e_mold3n is a jedi in the slot.
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The buzz around Molden is palpable. We’ll see just how much it is warranted when he takes the field for the Titans comes September.
