Originally posted by Antix:
Originally posted by amosmac28:
Originally posted by English:
Lost cause? Because you didnt want to draft him? No one who is serious about football gives up on a rookie after 3 games.
Agree, that's quite foolish to say that. Solomon needs some refining no doubt.. but I still think there's something there. Still think he's playing out of position at end but we will see.
He's def playong out of position. Im not sure why youd make a rookie learn a new position. instead let him get comfortable at what he does best naturally and move him later once he is used to the NFL. Thomas is going to be pretty much useless as he is already behind because of Stanford and learning a whole new position he may it may noy be suited for.
If.our 3rd pick of the draft interior pass rusher is going to be useless so is our pass rush.
Yeah, Saleh needs to think long and hard about all of his personnel if he wants to make Thomas work.
Given they had him working with Ware/Miller and he was invited by Bennett, it certainly seemed like the early plan was to try and convert him to LEO (where he's been playing the majority of his snaps) or add some edge rush ability for him at big end. There's nothing wrong with adding to your repertoire but that should have been our first insight into the plan for him and it wasn't a good one unfortunately.
This defense is so unconventional I wouldn't even mind scrapping the standard NT position. Both Buckner and Armstead have played through double teams their whole careers. With Buckner, Armstead and Thomas rotating on the interior you could generate a consistent interior pass rush and then go more conventional outside with Blair (when he returns) and Thomas splitting at Big End and Dumervil and Lynch rotating as base downs and as edge pass rushers.
With one of the two NT's inactive, Pita could get activated and given some edge snaps and add more to the ST than a NT could give.
I like Mitchell and Jones a lot but other than short yardage and goal line situations, esp. in a 1 gap scheme, how much value do they add when pass rush is far more important right now?
Just my 2-cents.
[ Edited by NCommand on Sep 27, 2017 at 8:20 AM ]
