Thanks for auditing the throws.
Because Gilmore was on Blackmon for the great majority of snaps (and doing an excellent job) it was natural that Brooks, a rookie starting his first game, would get a lot of work. The man Brooks was covering, Cecil Shorts, has been on fire lately. There was a graphic during the game which showed that Shorts was at or near the top 5 in the NFL in receptions, yards per reception, TD receptions and total yardage since he was made a starter in week 7. Shorts has 619 yards receiving and 5 TDs over the last 7 weeks. Shorts is an emerging star.
As I said earlier, I thought Brooks did just fine and giving up just 50% completions is excellent considering the completion percentage of NFL quarterbacks league-wide is over 60%.
Also, Brooks was credited with 3 pass breakups although I thought he should have been credited with 4 after I reviewed the game.
Brooks is very fast. He ran sub 4.4s at the combine: http://footballsfuture.com/2012/combine/cb.html
As I and others have said before, football speed is not the same as stopwatch speed but Brooks has no speed issues. His athleticism is pretty obvious. Fast, quick, smooth, good hips.
Yes. You have people of all different levels of knowledge posting here.
No doubt that everyone has opinions and likes to voice them. It is the world we live in. Some opinions are better than others.