AussieBear
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That's who B.Polian compared him to yesterday.
dammit,,,, you blew my cover..
btw, i dont want to work for the mccaskeys
That's who B.Polian compared him to yesterday.
Almost like projecting a college safety to linebacker.
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If I'm spending a top 5 overall pick on a safety, I want Ed Reed, not some guy with one career int. I need a full on game changing playmaker with that high a pick. I couldn't care less about what a safety did returning punts or running the ball in college.
Interesting history to look at:
Floyd had how many sacks before drafted in Rd 1? = now looking pretty good
Long had how much experience before drafted Rd 1? = clearly very good
Also...(as posted) Urlacher was a college safety before LB in NFL = decade best blue chip
Peppers as an uber-athletic utility jack of all trades = ???
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Top picks for new roles are far more the exception than the rule, which makes it hard for us as fans to trust Pace & coaches to make a new fit for raw talent actually work at NFL level and scheme fit. This plan fails as does known position guys who simply bust. Hard to make heads or tails of it at this point, hell even after the draft until we see a season or 2 of snaps.
Skepticism and optimism are both definitely warranted with Peppers. Not sure how I feel. It'll be interesting for sure.
I only mentioned FS because we don't have one and we have a lot of SS. When Amos plays FS it's by default. I like the idea of a guy fast enough for the spot terrorizing the secondary. That said, he does project better to SS or hybrid. He's not a LB in the NFL and is basically playing a hybrid rover type roll right now. You get too hung up on some specific said in passing to unbalance an equation when it isn't the main point.
He's not a nfl lb.
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I see Peppers kind of like the honey badger....just a athlete who causes havoc.
I would be ok with Peppers as long as Watson is off the board. Peppers is a guy that can line up anywhere, has the athletic ability that lacks in our backend. Watson is still my 1st choice. I think he will be our version of Mariota. A Qb that can do it all, but also has the smarts to transiton from a college spread to pro offense.
Since everyone has an opinion on Jabril Peppers, here's mine:
He is a phenomenal, freakish athlete who can make amazing plays with his athleticism, but he is not a sound fundamental football player. I'm very concerned about a guy who has spent 3 years in a top college program who still doesn't tackle with proper technique, tries to run around blocks by wide receivers, doesn't use proper leverage, etc.
Obviously, his ceiling is through the roof due to his freakish athleticism, but if you're going to use a top 5 overall pick on a defensive back, you don't take a project, you only take a sure-fire can't-miss great football player, and Peppers is not that.
And they would be stupid to project a college LB to Free Safety in the NFL. If you want to draft Peppers to be a LB or a SS then by all means do it. If you want to draft him and play him as a center fielder then that's pretty dumb IMO.
It's like let me watch all this college tape of a guy making a ton of plays at the LoS and then let me put him as far away from the LoS as possible. Yeah that makes a lot of sense.
definitely a fair point...ideally you'd like to get someone that is a little more well rounded that high in the draft. it just seems weird nowadays that there doesn't seem to be these sure fire top 10 picks in these drafts, its like there are questions about almost all the prospects from about pick 2 on ....
but if you look at the 2011 draft for example, there were like 8-10 studs that you just kind of knew were going to be pretty dam good players in the league. (with the exception of all the bum qb's that everyone (but the Titans Jags) knew were probably going to suck)
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Carolina Panthers Cam Newton † QB Auburn SEC 2010 Heisman Trophy winner[N 2]
2
Denver Broncos Von Miller † LB Texas A&M Big 12
3
Buffalo Bills Marcell Dareus † DT Alabama SEC
4
Cincinnati Bengals A. J. Green † WR Georgia SEC
5
Arizona Cardinals Patrick Peterson † CB LSU SEC
6
Atlanta Falcons Julio Jones † WR Alabama SEC from Cleveland [R1 - 1]
7
San Francisco 49ers Aldon Smith † LB Missouri Big 12
8
Tennessee Titans Jake Locker QB Washington Pac-10
9
Dallas Cowboys Tyron Smith † OT USC Pac-10
10
Jacksonville Jaguars Blaine Gabbert QB Missouri Big 12 from Washington [R1 - 2]
11
Houston Texans J. J. Watt † DE Wisconsin Big Ten