Marshon Lattimore is a gamer. If it weren't for last season, that short and sweet sentence might just be something I would be stuck nervously muttering to myself as I tossed and turned to sleep after watching the subject of it look relatively mediocre throughout most of training camp. Fortunately, what last season provided was a pretty good blueprint for what to expect from the insanely talented corner. We're talking about an inexperienced kid who came out of his first camp a question mark, but smacked an exclamation point on the end of his first season by adding Defensive Rookie Of The Year honors to the long list of people, places, and things he dominantly locked down. For that reason, I wasn't particularly concerned about the amount of highlights in which I had seen of Michael Thomas getting the better of his fellow former Buckeye throughout the last month or so. That said, with Marshon Lattimore having been spent a good chunk of the offseason nursing an ankle injury, yesterday was a pleasant reminder of what we already knew deep down. That, of course, being that he who was at his best when the lights were at their brightest and stakes were at their biggest was just a modicum of motivation away from erasing half the field from a future HOF quarterback who has the tendency to see things that don't even appear to be there. It'll be interesting to see how he fares in joint practices with the Chargers, but if last year was any indication then a sophomore slump will be about as helpless as the rookie wall was in slowing down the development of the talent who transformed the Saints' defense. The writing was already on the wall for him to have another stellar season, but it's still confronting to see evidence of his abilities transcribed on twitter once, twice, or maybe even three times (depending who you ask) before it starts.
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