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A great selection of highlight videos I found for Marcell Dareus in the Bama-Spartan Bowl game.
Although Dareus is clearly a top talent I still don't think he will be our pick at 3.
Here is my reasoning....
1. We have already invested in the DL. We have KW who is solid, We drafted Troup in the second and Carrington in the third. We also signed Dawan Edwards who had a very good year before getting hurt. Spencer Johnson is also coming along in the new scheme.
2. I don't think Dareus is in the 3 best players in college football category. Many fans here, I believe, want Dareus simply because they saw us getting gashed on the ground week after week. IMO, drafting Dareus solely for that purpose and paying him 50 mil is a knee-jerk reaction. We need to draft a player who is considered FAR AND AWAY the best at his position, without question.
For me, AJ Green, Patrick Peterson and Bowers represent the players who are the three best football players available regardless of position. Then when you factor in position, Green is without question the best WR, Patrick Peterson is probably the best CB to come out since Charles Woodson and Bowers is the best pure pass rusher available out of all DL players. Dareus is neither the best pass rusher nor the best run defender at his position, they would be Fairley and Clayborn respectively. How can you justify taking a player at 3 who is not the best at anything?
3. The NYJ have a great pass rush and run D for 2 reasons. 1 is the talent they have at ILB and second is their CBs.
The Jets DL is good but I think ours can be as good, what we are missing to help in the run game is ILBs who are tough against the run. Poz is not that guy and neither was Ayodele. Getting run stuffers behind our DL will go a long way to fixing our run D.
Now the other factor is lockdown CBs. Revis and Cro allow the Jets to crowd the LoS without worrying about the back end. That allows them to throw more guys in blitzes than you can block. They really don't have 1 guy who is considered a great pass rusher. Their pass rush is multiple and it is such because they have the CBs to do it.
That brings me to Patrick Peterson. This guy is the ultimate football player as Woodson was. Incredible athlete, incredible size (6'1 222) and has amazing speed and body control to go with it. This is not the kind of player you find everyday.
He and McKelvin on the other side would allow us to do a lot of exotic things with blitzes and coverages.
Think about it, our DL is improving, we add some ILBs, Merriman gets back to normal, Moats is a year better and Batten joins the mix. Peterson on the back end with Byrd and Mckelvin allows that front 7 to be very aggressive, both against the run and the pass.
That's my take.
Although Dareus is clearly a top talent I still don't think he will be our pick at 3.
Here is my reasoning....
1. We have already invested in the DL. We have KW who is solid, We drafted Troup in the second and Carrington in the third. We also signed Dawan Edwards who had a very good year before getting hurt. Spencer Johnson is also coming along in the new scheme.
2. I don't think Dareus is in the 3 best players in college football category. Many fans here, I believe, want Dareus simply because they saw us getting gashed on the ground week after week. IMO, drafting Dareus solely for that purpose and paying him 50 mil is a knee-jerk reaction. We need to draft a player who is considered FAR AND AWAY the best at his position, without question.
For me, AJ Green, Patrick Peterson and Bowers represent the players who are the three best football players available regardless of position. Then when you factor in position, Green is without question the best WR, Patrick Peterson is probably the best CB to come out since Charles Woodson and Bowers is the best pure pass rusher available out of all DL players. Dareus is neither the best pass rusher nor the best run defender at his position, they would be Fairley and Clayborn respectively. How can you justify taking a player at 3 who is not the best at anything?
3. The NYJ have a great pass rush and run D for 2 reasons. 1 is the talent they have at ILB and second is their CBs.
The Jets DL is good but I think ours can be as good, what we are missing to help in the run game is ILBs who are tough against the run. Poz is not that guy and neither was Ayodele. Getting run stuffers behind our DL will go a long way to fixing our run D.
Now the other factor is lockdown CBs. Revis and Cro allow the Jets to crowd the LoS without worrying about the back end. That allows them to throw more guys in blitzes than you can block. They really don't have 1 guy who is considered a great pass rusher. Their pass rush is multiple and it is such because they have the CBs to do it.
That brings me to Patrick Peterson. This guy is the ultimate football player as Woodson was. Incredible athlete, incredible size (6'1 222) and has amazing speed and body control to go with it. This is not the kind of player you find everyday.
He and McKelvin on the other side would allow us to do a lot of exotic things with blitzes and coverages.
Think about it, our DL is improving, we add some ILBs, Merriman gets back to normal, Moats is a year better and Batten joins the mix. Peterson on the back end with Byrd and Mckelvin allows that front 7 to be very aggressive, both against the run and the pass.
That's my take.
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