His speed has been a Bill Brasky type rumor for the last year or so. I'll admit I don't even remember him from when Mizzou played at Nevada in '09 and Gabbert broke his dick off in the Wolfpack defense to the tune of 400+ and 3 TDs.

Rushing the passer isn't about your 40 time. Its about technique and quickness. Obviously the guy must be insanely quick off the line to get that time though. The one great thing about making hi? A linebacker is that he has defensive back-like speed. Last week was a painful reminder that we are NOT fast enough at LB nor Safety. Constantly getting burned by underneath crossing patterns.

We're fast enough at LBer. Just not good enough at LBer. We definately have sideline to sideline speed. But we use Hali for an ever down pass rusher. He would struggle to cover a TE anyway. He's definately not fast. But as a group overal we are pretty fast.

This guy definately fits the bill though as far as the type of LBer we could use on this team. Especially if he was double teamed and got over 20 sacks as they say.

If they project him in the second round though, there must be a part of his game that isnt tight.

You forgot to say, "... Now eat shit and die, n00b!" This is the Chiefs Planet, man.
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(Sorry californ. Just joking. Welcome aboard.)

Yep, especially for the system Crennel runs that emphasizes larger LBs that are stout at the point of attack.

I'm starting to wonder if Crennel's system doesn't rely heavily on a stellar offense to keep the pressure off the defense. Whatever SD, Pit and Balt are doing - I'd like to go with that as much as possible.

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Which is why it's pretty fortunate that we fell ass over teakettle into Hali becoming an elite edge rushing OLB, because no one from the Belichick tree has run that system and ever drafted an edge rusher who was worth a damn.

Parcells hit with McGinest and Ware, but BB has mixed and matched his OLBs, or looked to FA with varying success.

Bullet Bob Hayes way back when would still smoke him. I bet he never ran a sub 9.0 in the 100 meters like Bob did

I heard this Moch kid ran down a Cheetah, bitch slapped it and then took it's freshly killed Gazelle.

:doh!:

What was Josh McDaniels doing with a dead gazelle in the first place?

If this kid drops 10 pounds do you think it would make him faster? I realize he probably can't cover for shit, but have him drop his weight to 235, and play one fast ****ing blitzing safety.

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What kind of sucks about the Raiders trading away their 1st round pick is that they won't be able to draft this LBer in the 1st, and instead use their 2nd on him, and save themselves some money and some embarrassment.

"I think Deon Sanders clocked close to 4.2 or something."

Wow, he's nearly as fast as Deion Sanders.