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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I do not want to see Easley anywhere wider than the OGs outside shoulder.
He will be a beastly inside rusher, and will be neutralized by being moved further from the ball.
If either gets injured, Smith becomes the starter probably. Or maybe Buchanan is he's earned the staff's trust. It's not ideal, but losing a starter never is; if nothing else, the depth is much better than it was last year at DE.
This has jinx all over it like last years thread
If Smith is what makes depth "much better" I'm not not sure I see it because he has been unable to set the edge in games and in 1 on 1's, he has about the worst record on the squad. Most writers' projections have him being released. Buchanan has speed but is a liability against the run. Along with TE2 and LB4-6, I see DE3 as a position that could stand upgrading. I wonder if we might swap our areas of strength (CB, OL)?
Fully agree. I just don't yet see the case that we are improved. I would love to see Smith progress, but he has not looked like the 2012 player so far.Smith could be cut, but I'll believe it when I see it. I just don't particularly care for W/L stats on 1v1 camp battles, and he's recovering from a significant injury last year. I think Belichick will give him every opportunity to show that he can still produce at something close to 2012 levels, and I'm not betting against him getting most of the way back to that. This is the same team that kept Andre Carter around last year, after all.
I agree that Buchanan wouldn't be ideal as a starter, but your backups rarely are ideal starters. In much the same way that the Pats had Mark Anderson start after Carter went down in 2011, they've shown that they'll start a liability against the run if he's their best overall option.
Honestly I think the base should be a 3-4 designed to rotate Chandler Jones and Rob Ninkovich so they are not on the field as much this season.
LOLB – Donta Hightower, Rob Ninkovich, Darius Fleming
LE – Tommy Kelly, Chris Jones, Jerel Worthy
NT – Vince Wilfork, Sealver Siliga
RE – Dominique Easley, Jerel Worthy, Zach Moore
ROLB – Chandler Jones, Rob Ninkovich, Michael Buchanan
SILB – Jerod Mayo, Steve Beauharnais
WILB – Jamie Collins, James Anderson
If you look at Seattle last season none of their DE or DT played a high number of snaps, something like 65-70% was the max.
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