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What is our plan for ILB?

RxJock1120 said:
The plan should have been Anthony Hill Jr last Friday, but I guess we are a bit stuck with Spillane and Ellis for now. They weren't bad last year, especially Spillane, but def left some tackles on the field.
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Maybe they used the pick s they would have used to draft Hill on moving up to get Lamu and Jacas
 
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Jesse Luketa played inside at Penn State. He signed with us on March 5.
 
RxJock1120 said:
The plan should have been Anthony Hill Jr last Friday, but I guess we are a bit stuck with Spillane and Ellis for now. They weren't bad last year, especially Spillane, but def left some tackles on the field.
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Hill is touted because he was at Texas. But he wasn't that good. Rodriguez and Louis are better than Hill.

The Pats will clearly be focusing on LB going into next year's draft because the cupboard is bare.


Ellis is below average. He's a liability against the run because he's 50/50 to go to the right gap. And he's horrible against the pass.
 
Can't address every need in the draft, but they should sign a veteran.
 
It's gotta be one of the following...

- They really like Britt
- They really like Muma
- They are waiting for June 1st for a trade
- They expect players or a certain player to be cut when teams get down to 53
 
Zuma said:
It's gotta be one of the following...

- They really like Britt
- They really like Muma
- They are waiting for June 1st for a trade
- They expect players or a certain player to be cut when teams get down to 53
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1, 2 and 4 are legit.

Not sure they make a trade for an ILB but you never know
 
RxJock1120 said:
The plan should have been Anthony Hill Jr last Friday, but I guess we are a bit stuck with Spillane and Ellis for now. They weren't bad last year, especially Spillane, but def left some tackles on the field.
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What you see is likely to be what you get unless there is a late in camp trade, claim or pick-up the day after the cut to 53.

The team apparently has its Spillane and Ellis
and its backups in Hill and Muma
and perhaps in its ST/backup in Obiazor
and we also picked up Luketa

One of the six OLB/EDGE folks could get some work inside if there is an injury (perhaps Ponder, Swinson or Hutchins).

I don't see any free agent signings that make the 53 coming from the 90-man roster of others. We could sign a veteran, but since Vrabel is likely OK with the top 3, that seems unlikely.
 
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Joey007 said:
I will say that off ball LB is the easiest thing to trade for late in camp/start of the season.

We saw Bill do it several times with guys like Casillas, Van Noy, Ayers.
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Do you think that we had less of a need last year? Who did we pick up?
 
p8ryts said:
End of training camp pick up
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sounds great, but seems like nothing to count on.

I think that we picked up no players that made the 53 from the draft until the final cut.

We did claim Gregory and DiVIto after the cut, but we were at the top of the claim list. We also signed Munford and Durden to our Practice Squad after the final cut.
 
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