02-17-2017, 02:25 PM
(02-17-2017, 02:09 AM)Jpoore Wrote: man if 4th round picks and bad u must really hate Geno. Look the point is this. The goal of a dt is to push ur man backwards. Billings can do that with ease he has the strength of 2 olineman. He will clog the middle running lanes. Sure would I like to draft a Carlos Watkins or a Solomon Thomas to play dt? Yeah but it's not as big a need. Remember Billings was a first rounder in talent. Vigil was the best lb on his team imo. He looked REALLY good when I watched him as the season went on. You can play Vinny Rey as ur other starter he's not a full time starter but u only need him for 30 percent or less of snaps anyways. He doubled malaluga snaps by far anyways. So wouldn't be much of a change except Rey would get a few more snaps and burfict and vigil would be out there a lot. Westerman is the one I don't know about. He could easily be a great guard or he couldn't be. But the key to the whole oline is the center. Our line will never be good as long as bodine is running things.
Geno is the outlier. And as rookie...he had 10 Tackles and 2 sacks. You can't expect all of our 4th Round picks to just step onto the field with no playing time in the past and dominate. It's going to likely take them 2-3 years to develop...IF they ever do.
Billings had great combine numbers...but he's coming off of a major knee injury. It's going to take him time to get that explosiveness back.
Saying a guy is a '1st Round talent' is nonsense. Every year they say that about 90 people. The fact is he wasn't drafted in the 1st Round.
I'm all for playing these guys...but the overall performance of the team will likely take a step back inserting all of those guys into the lineup. Zeitler was REALLY good. Westerman will not match his production in Year 1. That's a step back.
