ellicottraven

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    This has to be demoralizing for Chykie and Asa!  They're bringing in almost every available CB to possibly play over these two.

    I am sure it has nothing to do with Chykie or Asa other than they are not playing well enough right now. Look, Steve Bisciotti has reiterated over and over again, that he would like to make sure the young guys we draft play for us. That is borne out by us not signing or drafting a RT this year. Ricky Wagner and Jensen are doing well enough at the position that they think it isn't necessary. However, with the CBs, it is clear that neither Chykie or Asa are up to it right now.

    That is the reason they are going all out trying to sign a veteran as our insurance policy!

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    Well, fortunately we run a ZBS system so I'm not sure how important it is that John is super strong. Furthermore, he can improve in that area and that's exactly why we have a weight room at the UA facility. I don't think you need to be so caustic, however, in response. I understand that perhaps he was a bit sarcastic, but sarcasm doesn't necessarily need more sarcasm in return. Just my opinion.

     

    Also, Brandon Williams has freakish body strength and that was before an entire season of NFL football. Combine that with the entire season and now off-season of football, and that may be an unfair competition for Urschel, who wasn't the strongest to begin with but going against Williams might be a bit too much at this point.

    Point noted Grim! Precisely why I ignored his labored response this go around.
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    Have you actually watched Urschel? For some reason I doubt it

    Hello. A brief excerpt from Ryan Mink who literally saw Urschel at practice so you can spend some time pondering your caustic remark laden with ill founded sarcasm. Here is the actual observation from Ryan Mink's post:

    "One knock on center/guard John Urschel is that he isn’t that strong. His arms don’t match up to defensive tackle Brandon Williams, but Urschel is a big, cut player."

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    Andre Johnson is an elite receiver by any standard. Torrey Smith is an up and coming receiver who had his first 1000 yard season last year. To compare him to Johnson is very unfair to both players.

    Andre Johnson is a total receiver and one of the best in past decade. Torrey isn't and is basically a deep threat and evolving as a complete receiver. He may never ever be in the league of Andre Johnson, but that is okay. Would I exchange Torrey for Andre. Probably not at this point in Andre's career. However, if it was 2 yrs earlier with the present day Torrey, I would have. At that point we may have gotten 5-6 yrs of a dynamic Andre Johnson, but right now we may only get a couple unless he turns in a Tony Gonzalez type career.

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    I think we need to be a bit careful with getting excited about Urschel's intelligence, as it's one of those things that differs from person to person. You have guys who have PHDs who can't balance a checkbook or maintain a relationship (for example). The point is that all kinds of things require a different kind of intelligence, and there's a reason FOs talk up "football IQ". To be honest, CJ Mosley doesn't seem all that bright (maybe he just comes off that way in the interviews), but his football IQ seems to be through the roof.

     

    Does Urschel have the mind capacity to understand NFL-level coverages? Sure. But I think we should wait before proclaiming him a super-genius until after he hikes a few balls.

     

    All of that said, I haven't seen him play yet so I can't say whether he regularly made the right reads in college. :P

    Point well taken. However, NFL level coverages can't be any more complicated than integral calculus right?
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    Gradkowski sucked at center, but that was because Shipley was starting next to him and he didn't know the calls. Gradkowski could be a decent guard. Urschel could be a good guard as well.

    Urschel gets pushed back a lot, which seems like the Gradkowski syndrome to me. However, he is super smart unlike Gino who had trouble dissecting defenses and getting his O-line on the same page... hopefully in a year or two Urschel adds strength and bulk and is our future center in 2 yrs. Zuttah can be a formidable guard for us.
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    We've sighed one solitary CB after the draft? It beats me. I understand that there are 31 other teams recruiting, but is it such a hard sell to land a CB to such a CB needy team such as ours? I wouldn't think so. Why then are we losing recruits to other less needy teams??

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    We have 16 more players to go before we pick tomorrow. I truly don't expect a good OG or safety to fall to us at that point... hopefully we can pick another impact player tomorrow. I am not unhappy with the Mosely pick because I do believe he was the highest rated player on our board, but now all good safeties are gone with only one from Florida State left.... I hope we get Morgan Moses or Brooks tomorrow.

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