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Originally Posted by htismaqe
KPass literally has no tools. He's going into his 3rd season and still doesn't have any. And for all the complaining about Speaks' body type, how in the world is someone built like KPass going to be successful as a down lineman with no pass rush moves?
What you've just said about KPass just shows that your not all that set in your "analysis" because KPass is literally a waste of a draft pick. He's got NOTHING and he's produced nothing.
As for Speaks and his physique, I respect your opinions as you know, but your opinion of him is, quite frankly, a joke. He's not fat, he's not slow.
In fact, he's the ONLY one out of him, Houston, and Ford that even laid a hand on Tom Brady last year in 2 games. He beat Trent Brown badly, something neither Ford nor Houston could do in multiple tries.
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He's absolutely slow. And he's not fat for a DE, but he's soft. He needs to get some bad weight off in a big way (something he's acknowledged). He was simply incapable of pushing guys backwards and if you lack the feet to outmaneuver them or the hands to out fight them, you better at least have the functional strength to physically move them (again, Allen Bailey). Speaks doesn't.
As for K-Pass, the dude's long with excellent functional strength and solid 'glide' speed. His first step needs help but that's why he was so badly mis-cast as an OLB.
You're right that he has no
technique, but that's a completely different discussion. But to say that a guy with his baseline strength, length and overall athleticism has no tools is to define the term so narrowly as to mean nothing.