53 Man Roster Prediction

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(05-03-2016, 12:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Hardison needs to concentrate 100% on playing inside at DT.  Bengals stunted MJ's development for a couple of years by trying to make him a LB/DE hybrid.  They also moved Geathers around almost every year early in his career.  He was effective as a 265 lb rush end, but they bulked him up to 280 one year and had him taking snaps at DT.

Hardison will be wasting his size playing DE in a 4-3 scheme, and we have no 3T to back up Geno.

Agree with this.   They putz around with these hybrid roles and it ends up slowing the players' development.  

I thought they messed up David Pollack's development.  He just needed to be a DE and he would have wreaked havoc.  Obviously his injury ended his career and his late signing also stunted his growth.   But he was a stud at DE and would have been a difference maker right away if they hadn't decided to make him an OLB. 

The guy had elite short area and lateral quickness (ran a 3.97 short shuttle - faster than any of our DBs and WRs), an incredibly quick first step, was really smart and understood leverage.

I'm kind of hoping this has been as much a Hayes focus as a Marvin focus (he's been looking for the next Peter Boulware for a long time without success).  Hopefully Burney will be wiser in this regard.