ALLEN PARK -- In practice, Detroit Lions cornerback Bill Bentley has the look of a play-maker.
The third-year defensive back, who projects as the team's starting nickelback, glides through the short and intermediate areas of the field, reads and reacts well, and gets his hands on a fair share of passes.
Success on Sundays has come slower for the team's 2012 third-round pick out of Louisiana-Lafayette, but there were signs things were coming together for Bentley in the second half of the 2013 season.
This offseason, Bentley has had to prove himself to a new coaching staff with a new defensive scheme. He also needs to fend off rookie Nevin Lawson for playing time in nickel packages, but the young veteran holds a clear edge in that competition heading into training camp later this month.
"Confidence goes up when you get more comfortable," Bentley said following the team's final minicamp practice last month. "Not comfortable in yourself, but comfortable in your new scheme. I've gone through it with the OTAs, I've gone through it in minicamp, so I'm seeing more things. You just know what you're doing and you're just playing fast."
Things should be coming more quickly to Bentley entering his third year, the season where everything is supposed to click for young cornerbacks. Earlier this offseason, general manager Martin Mayhew said if a defensive back isn't getting it by year three, they're probably never going to get it.
Beyond staying healthy, Bentley will also be looking for his first interception as a professional after letting a couple slip through his fingers last season. He believes the Lions' new scheme will put him, and the team's other cornerbacks, in position to create turnovers.
Man fuck FIFA
I want to play you in FIFA.What you playing?
Also, what console?
You are very perceptive.Things I've learned in this thread....
Ez is still a bitter old racist yelling at clouds.
Gata likes to connect with women on an ancestral level.
Some of you eat some really disgusting shit.
Kas lives in a constant state of delirium.
Bionic has a new house to fill with Jordan memorabilia.
I want to play you in FIFA.
PS4
I suck
You are very perceptive.
I'll have to see what's going on tomorrow! It's America's Party! Family stuff.Cool.
Not now though, going to bed in a bit. Maybe tomorrow before the WC game or something.
I like it when the people I play suck. It makes me feel like a god.
Darkest Red for instance is too good, it stresses me out.
If only you knew his other obsession.Also FMT has an unhealthy obsession with Mario Kart.
I'll have to see what's going on tomorrow! It's America's Party! Family stuff.
A tear is rolling down my face. You make America proud. If only you didn't root for the Patriots.Oh yeah.
I might bake an apple pie to honor Freedom.
If only you knew his other obsession.
His penchant for bags of dicks is well known.
All those illegal drugs and STDs are really doing work on your brain.
I should quit this website.
anyone up for some MK tonight? you know the time.... 7 pm pst! hopefully we can get enough people
:kasIf we can have one of these dudes become a legitmate #1 DB I do not see a weakness on our team on paper
Trust me, I've considered it. I try to stay away from the OT and Gaming for the most part because I guess I don't understand people well enough. I'm typically a laid back, live and let live person, but GAF has made me question human behavior and thought processes at times.
Still one of the GOAT horror movies.
How did you never see that movieWatched it for the first time last month and was glad to see how great it was. Felt dumb for not catching the part at the beginning of this clip though!
GAF can be really cool, but really fucking weird or terrible at times.
This is still the best video game board, and this is the best football thread on all of the internet.
I guess it's not that hard to do when the competition is shitty.
GAF can be really cool, but really fucking weird or terrible at times.
This is still the best video game board, and this is the best football thread on all of the internet.
I guess it's not that hard to do when the competition is shitty.
Also FMT has an unhealthy obsession with Mario Kart.
How did you never see that movie
Yeah but you could've seen it in theaters!Just put it off for years! It'll happen to you someday too!
Yeah but you could've seen it in theaters!
we play every couple days!
Every time I make a thread, it's an NSA thread!
The first.A NSA thread as in a thread about the NSA or a NSA thread as in 'This thread will put me on a NSA watchlist' ?
lolYeah, it had a single day rerelease in 2012. Keep kicking myself when I miss shit like that. Even Top Gun had one iirc.
ESPN2 has women's professional bowling on in prime time?
If they somehow combined Madden with Mario Kart you'd die from the resulting orgasm.
and if people actually played killer instinct
Are we playing Madden 15 in August? Will there still be space in the league?
Yeah, some of the posters in this thread are really creeping me out. NSFW or Life for that matter.
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=849095
Watched it for the first time last month and was glad to see how great it was. Felt dumb for not catching the part at the beginning of this clip though!
............ Well then.
Lol, who knew putting your forum behind a no free email addresses wall would only attract creeps like this or Gata who somehow has an email address that isn't AOL or yahoo.
Lol, there seems to be a lot great movies you are just now seeing. Aren't you a part of the 50/50 movies and book thread? I wanted to do that but have school. Maybe when I'm done with that and only have work to worry about. Do you still find time for your animu?
Flight got cancelled. So after spending most of today at an airport, I have to spend 'Murica Day flying and getting stuck in traffic after I arrive in New York. Which really is the most American thing there is when you think about it.
and if people actually played killer instinct
Which airport are you at?
4th of July is overrated anyway. Too much drinking and checkpoints. Screw that.
You forgot about my book or I haven't reminded you all shamelessly enough.Things I've learned in this thread....
Ez is still a bitter old racist yelling at clouds.
Gata likes to connect with women on an ancestral level.
Some of you eat some really disgusting shit.
Kas lives in a constant state of delirium.
Bionic has a new house to fill with Jordan memorabilia.
Lol, there seems to be a lot great movies you are just now seeing. Aren't you a part of the 50/50 movies and book thread? I wanted to do that but have school. Maybe when I'm done with that and only have work to worry about. Do you still find time for your animu?