Originally Posted by O.city: I'd rather have a better prospect with slightly shorter arms than a long armed unathletic dude.
But staylor brings up a good point here in that he may not hit the baseline they like in prospects.
I don't disagree at all. Hopefully Andy/Veach are also willing to sacrifice some arm length for athleticism and big hands. Just hard to know whether that's the case until they draft somebody that fits the bill. [Reply]
There are always outliers. Spags had a type of DE and then drafted BJ Thompson. Yeah, that was in the 5th round and not the 1st...but it still happened. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
There are always outliers. Spags had a type of DE and then drafted BJ Thompson. Yeah, that was in the 5th round and not the 1st...but it still happened.
Sure, which is why I'm not writing him off as a possibility. But just like with McDuffie, that's Spags, not Andy.
Just hard to ignore that Andy's never drafted an OT short arms. That's a long time. [Reply]
Andy Reid has far to long of a history suggesting what type of OT's he wants, trying to say it doesn't matter is a fools errand when there's decades of history. [Reply]
I bet we do what we did last year and get a vet on a short term deal and maybe take a stab at guys with traits that suit us. Amegadjie or Foster. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Nightfyre:
I bet we do what we did last year and get a vet on a short term deal and maybe take a stab at guys with traits that suit us. Amegadjie or Foster.
Do you mean Fisher?
He's caught my attention recently. I like him along with Amegadije and Patrick Paul on day 2. [Reply]
Oh c'mon fellas. He's a 3rd round pick tops. My druthers would look at him in the 4th.
Not terribly athletic, heavy feet. Mauler of an OT and I don't think there's a chance in hell he plays LT.
We have people wanting to say that Morgan can't play LT because his arms are a half inch too short but others wanting to say that Foster CAN when his feet look like they're on the wrong legs? Yikes.
Foster in the 2nd round would be a truly truly TRULY awful pick. As bad as they'll come. But I'm not worried about that because there's zero chance it happens. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Y'all talking about Foster?
Oh c'mon fellas. He's a 3rd round pick tops. My druthers would look at him in the 4th.
Not terribly athletic, heavy feet. Mauler of an OT and I don't think there's a chance in hell he plays LT.
We have people wanting to say that Morgan can't play LT because his arms are a half inch too short but others wanting to say that Foster CAN when his feet look like they're on the wrong legs? Yikes.
Foster in the 2nd round would be a truly truly TRULY awful pick. As bad as they'll come. But I'm not worried about that because there's zero chance it happens.
No, Blake Fisher.
Foster is completely off my radar, so I thought it was a typo. [Reply]
Would you guys take Mims in the first round? He looks like a complete boom/bust prospect. It's doubtful he could start in year one with only 8 starts at RT in his career. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chiefnj2:
Would you guys take Mims in the first round? He looks like a complete boom/bust prospect. It's doubtful he could start in year one with only 8 starts at RT in his career.
I would. He’s massive and can move. He comes across as intelligent. YouTube his interviews. He’s bigger than Orlando brown jr. He’s built solid. With the work that he’s done on his body and in his workouts, he doesn’t appear to be lazy. He had 5.07 40 at his size and he didn’t look flabby when he ran it. I’d move up like we did for mcduffie and get Mims. I’d also bring in a vet LT like smith to compete with him. [Reply]