Defensive Line Thread

Originally posted by NotAFinga42:
Damn. Watching Buckner play tonight and imagining what this defensive line could look like if he were still here. What a shame he's being wasted in Indianapolis.

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:

Originally posted by NotAFinga42:
Damn. Watching Buckner play tonight and imagining what this defensive line could look like if he were still here. What a shame he's being wasted in Indianapolis.

Our run D would be worse, pass D even better. I'll take what we have.

Originally posted by NotAFinga42:
Damn. Watching Buckner play tonight and imagining what this defensive line could look like if he were still here. What a shame he's being wasted in Indianapolis.

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:

1. Originally posted by 9ers4eva:
   

   Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
   Id keep every last one. No way I'm cutting any of the Magnificent 11- Bosa, Ebukam, Jackson, Turray, Hyder, Willis, Armstead, Kinlaw, Givens, Omenihu, and Ridgeway. Cut no one. Let them ball out, keep our insane depth, and earn a comp pick for 2024 when some of these guys eventually depart. Unless someone is giving us equal or better talent at guard, safety, corner (can never have enough), or TE, im not trading any of those guys.

   
   Only gonna have 8 or 9 at most active. Doesn't make sense to have Hyder or Willis inactive week after week.
   
   Get some pick value in return.

Rotate and go with the hot hand lol. In all seriousness, my post was about not outright cutting anyone. I agree with get some pick value. There are edge guys on our roster that would be a quality backup on many teams and if there are teams whose edge rushers were as bad as ours were from 2015-2018, any of our edge rush cuts would be immediate starters. It really is outstanding how the team improved that position.

Originally posted by pasodoc9er:

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:

Originally posted by LasVegasWally:
There has to be a team needy of DL that we can make a trade with.

If the guys we let go hit the open market that needy team probably won't get any of them.

Id keep every last one. No way I'm cutting any of the Magnificent 11- Bosa, Ebukam, Jackson, Turray, Hyder, Willis, Armstead, Kinlaw, Givens, Omenihu, and Ridgeway. Cut no one. Let them ball out, keep our insane depth, and earn a comp pick for 2024 when some of these guys eventually depart. Unless someone is giving us equal or better talent at guard, safety, corner (can never have enough), or TE, im not trading any of those guys.

Well, how about all but Ridgeway…that's 10. But i feel same way about OL Keep 10, but for different reason…there we got almost 5 starters (with Brun at RT) and we have Poe. But West , Jeckelj we need to keep because we are really skinny on OL depth….that assumes McG is out injured for awhile which might end up being lengthy. Problem here is wiht 10 DLs and 10 OLs, who are we going to give short shrift to? Not DBs…we got torched there last yr with a heavy dose of injury. RBs? Cut down to 4? We Got injured there too. LBs? Count them one short? Nope injuries there also. One can go on to each position and same thing applies. This is what a HC gets paid for, and same goes for JL.

All fair points. If it came down to it, I'm offering Ridgeway and Willis up for trade. I think Hyder has little to no trade value because of his age and likely has seen his last big contract (with Seattle), so I don't see us getting much in terms of a comp pick. Hyder however would have value on the Jets and maybe the Dolphins (assuming McDaniel wants to run the same system). It just seems crazy that we could potentially give away edge rushers when we were devoid of them for so long.

P.S. I forgot about practice squad. I'm keeping 10 and I'd put Hyder there if no one would trade for him.

Originally posted by Leathaface:
A little worried about the depth of this unit, specifically the interior. We already lost 3 starters on the inside with Hurst, Kinlaw and now AA.

Not counting on much from Kinlaw but hopefully AA can avoid the IL and play vs the Chiefs. Knowing how conservative the team is with injuries, I bet he won't be back til after the bye though.

Originally posted by ninerjok:

Originally posted by Leathaface:
A little worried about the depth of this unit, specifically the interior. We already lost 3 starters on the inside with Hurst, Kinlaw and now AA.

Not counting on much from Kinlaw but hopefully AA can avoid the IL and play vs the Chiefs. Knowing how conservative the team is with injuries, I bet he won't be back til after the bye though.

Why? The whole point of this defensive line is how much f**king depth there is. All the backups could be an entire starting Dline for half the other teams in the league.

Originally posted by Leathaface:

Originally posted by ninerjok:

Originally posted by Leathaface:
A little worried about the depth of this unit, specifically the interior. We already lost 3 starters on the inside with Hurst, Kinlaw and now AA.

Not counting on much from Kinlaw but hopefully AA can avoid the IL and play vs the Chiefs. Knowing how conservative the team is with injuries, I bet he won't be back til after the bye though.

Why? The whole point of this defensive line is how much f**king depth there is. All the backups could be an entire starting Dline for half the other teams in the league.

At some point the depth gets depleted, that's the concern.

Originally posted by lamontb:
Ebukam missed practice with an Achilles. Hopefully guys get healthy in the next few days or weeks b/c we will face some better offenses. So far Seattle is the best offense we have faced. Competition has been pretty weak. And without rotating in with the starters these guys will start looking like back ups.

Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by lamontb:
Ebukam missed practice with an Achilles. Hopefully guys get healthy in the next few days or weeks b/c we will face some better offenses. So far Seattle is the best offense we have faced. Competition has been pretty weak. And without rotating in with the starters these guys will start looking like back ups.

Fuuuuck

I fear what our DL will look like without Bosa and Ebukam.