Anyone know which of our DL project best...

[MassPats38]

What was "the fullback experiment" anyway?

At pains of jumping a question directed at Fencer, I believe he is referring to Belichick using Richard as a fullback heavy in short yardage situations. While blocking, Seymour ending up getting that nagging knee injury that plagued him for the past couple of years. Innovative, but kind of a high value unit to be throwing in as a blocker. Prior to Seymour, Dan Klecko was used in that role (he was originally a defensive lineman but became a failed conversion attempt to LB) before he got hurt and did so fairly well.

 

[signbabybrady]

My first thought when reading your question was the same as one posted already rather than having a linemen play out of position just play more 4-3. But at this point no one else is going down somethings gotta give right.

 

[gomezcat]

I disagree with this nonsense about Wilfork- stupid talk for which I may step outside my usual terrritory to hand out infractions...:banned:

Everyone knows that he is a Corner. I mean, can you imagine him jamming at the line?

Anyway, Jsn's post has been well-answered. One thing to consider, though, Jsn is that we have a number of OLBs who could play DE in a 4-3: I'm thinking of Vrabel, Thomas (when fit) and perhaps Colvin.

 

[Fencer]

What was "the fullback experiment" anyway?

Seymour played FB in the jumbo set for a while. He had numerous false start penalties in the role and finally got injured at it.

It turns out that Richard Seymour is no Dan Klecko.

 

[Fencer]

At pains of jumping a question directed at Fencer, I believe he is referring to Belichick using Richard as a fullback heavy in short yardage situations. While blocking, Seymour ending up getting that nagging knee injury that plagued him for the past couple of years. Innovative, but kind of a high value unit to be throwing in as a blocker. Prior to Seymour, Dan Klecko was used in that role (he was originally a defensive lineman but became a failed conversion attempt to LB) before he got hurt and did so fairly well.

No, please, always feel free to jump questions directed at me.

At least if they're football question.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

No, please, always feel free to jump questions directed at me.

At least if they're football question.

A question. How can you respond so quickly from the Andromeda galaxy over 2 million LY away? That's a 4 million year round trip.

 

[satz]

Any of our DL can drop in zone even wilfork, if we are going to drop a DL we can play zone and drop him in the zone. One of the best DL in getting his hands to tip balls is seymour and i always wondered why they do not do some shallow zone`s with him.Over the years and even now he tips more balls and has the hand eye coordination to get his hands up .this is a skill that most DL lack.

The problem is AD played DL, OLB,ILB and we did not have to rotate players keep the QB guessing with him down you are going to rotate 2-3 playes which gives away the play.

Also, seasoned QB will rotate the TE or Slot receiver to the DL zone and take advantage of this. Pittsburg kinda exploited this by dropping casey hampton down in a snap where harrison got him.Just confused cassell. they did a lot stuff which they would not do if brady is in their.

 

[BlitzFritz]

Well JSn has started many awesome threads, so lets give him a pass on this one (I think everyone is joshing you dude!)

It did spark a funny thought tho, with all those DEs crossing over to LBs.

There are also LBs crossing over to DL -- remember Keith "Tractor" Traylor? He started out in the NFL as an LB, then decided to gain like 50-75 lbs and learn to play nose tackle. Imagine the body reconfiguration involved there!!

MAkes you wonder about the natural talent of these guys vs. the actual "design for performance" apsect of their bodies. Perhaps a number of these guys like Jarvis or Wright could actually play standing up BEFORE they put on 30 lbs....

This also reminds me of how significantly all these guys TRANSFORM from rookie year to say year 3. Look at Mike Wright - he is a much bigger beast than he was rookie year. BB/SP must be assessing some of these rookies with a mind toward - what will they look like after they 2 years of NFL strength training...

Thats all.

- FRITZ

 

[Box_O_Rocks]

I assumed JSn had read something in the thread but the comment was tied to the response to my post. While I may lob the occasional grenade in response to a post (my anti-troll defense), I did not want a benign post to be construed as some form of attack.

I thought reputation was just a number of squares/color of square. Does it fluctuate that much or have some numerical value associated with it? Apparently I should be more image conscious around my constituents.

This forum hasn't embraced the reputation option as a feedback tool the way Patriots Planet has, here we seem to prefer the "head-on" approach. I enjoy the "rep" points at Planet because you don't have anonymity, it allows you to know who is reading you contributions, what they think of your efforts, and it can generate some dialogue. Planeteers approach it as a fun way to say 'good job' or 'don't mention the faux fan who posted here and should not be named at risk of having your mouth washed out with lye soap.'

I don't even look at Patsfans rep blocks. it's too easy to leave negative feedback because it is anonymous. It's not a useful gauge of the individual's efforts since the chicken 'not souper' crowd is happy to express themselves with flung poo - no accountability. I do check my usercp to see what people are reading - and I was informed that someone plans to use the kitten/kilt simile I shared at the next meeting of the Irish Heritage Society, nice to know your creativity is being plagiarized.