01-08-2018, 02:09 PM
(01-08-2018, 06:32 AM)BobJones4980 Wrote: Dont know much about the guy but his rankings don't look great.
Lions fans opinion :
Quote:Y'all won't be disappointed. We've been short of talent, sure, but we haven't had any front 7 talent developed.
Austin is a secondary whisperer; our CB that converted to a SS (Quandre Diggs) was looking like a pro bowler towards the end of the year; y'all already know about Slay and Quin.
Our front 7 is in the midst of a rebuild right now. All year, it consisted of: rookie but stud MLB (Jarrad Davis), solid starting OLB that has peaked and isn't good in coverage (Tahir Whitehead), and rookie 4th-round pick OLB (Reeves-Maybin); an injured Ziggy Ansah, Haloti Ngata for only a few games, a bargain-bin backup DT forced into the DT1 role (Akeem Spence), and a rotating door of backups on the ends (Anthony Zettel, Cornelius Washington, UDFAs).
Paired with some talent in the front 7, he can take a defense far. The 2014 Lions, which featured Suh, a healthy Ansah, Nick Fairley, Devin Taylor,/George Johnson on the DL, DeAndre Levy (Pro Bowl year OLB), Stephen Tulloch (solid starting MLB), and Tahir Whitehead (solid starting OLB as mentioned above), and a secondary complete with a year-2 Darius Slay, pro-bowler Glover Quin, Rashean Mathis, and James Ihedigbo...
I live in Michigan and the Wife is a Lions fan, so I see plenty of Lions. Ziggy had 12 sacks this year and Davis and Whitehead are studs. Darius Slay (pro bowl), Glover Quinn and DJ Hayden make an excellent secondary. I don't know if "lack of talent" is a valid enough excuse to fully excuse a 27th ranking.
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