Bob Sutton

[RealSNR]

It's quite simple.

Replace Kendrick Lewis.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by KC native

to make the defense not suck.

Originally Posted by SNR

It's quite simple.

Replace Kendrick Lewis.

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[milkman]

Originally Posted by SNR

It's quite simple.

Replace Kendrick Lewis.

That's the first order of business, but it isn't quite that simple.

We need an ILB alongside DJ who isn't absolutely useless in pass coverage, and more pressure from at least 1 of the DEs.

That ILB, though, would really allow Sutton, if he does have the chops, to really maximize Berry's versatility.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by milkman

That's the first order of business, but it isn't quite that simple.

We need an ILB alongside DJ who isn't absolutely useless in pass coverage, and more pressure from at least 1 of the DEs.

That ILB, though, would really allow Sutton, if he does have the chops, to really maximize Berry's versatility.

I agree. While I have been wanting us to take either a receiver or safety tomorrow, I would feel pretty good if we snatched up Kyle Van Noy. He can be your other ILB, even if he can play outside. The guy really is that talented.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Bowser

I agree. While I have been wanting us to take either a receiver or safety tomorrow, I would feel pretty good if we snatched up Kyle Van Noy. He can be your other ILB, even if he can play outside. The guy really is that talented.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[Simply Red]

I'm cooling it w/ my insider posts.

I never get comments on my fresh football mind.

You all can screw off! I'm bumping the Fried Chicken thread!

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by SNR

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

Scary, isn't it?

Originally Posted by BCD

I believe Hilton began torching the D when Flowers went out.

Right?

Absolutely he did. I was mad when he kept putting Dunta on him. Play some off coverage with deep help on the guy that has burned you for 200 yards and 2 TDs in a quarter, perhaps?

Originally Posted by Simply Red

I'm cooling it w/ my insider posts.

I never get comments on my fresh football mind.

You all can screw off! I'm bumping the Fried Chicken thread!

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[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

I'm cooling it w/ my insider posts.

I never get comments on my fresh football mind.

You all can screw off! I'm bumping the Fried Chicken thread!

Don't do that. You've got a vision nobody else has. Were you not right about Knile Davis?

Also, a time will come this season when you will gloat bukkake over everybody for seeing a legend being born before everybody else:

Chas Alecxih

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by SNR

Don't do that. You've got a vision nobody else has. Were you not right about Knile Davis?

Also, a time will come this season when you will gloat bukkake over everybody for seeing a legend being born before everybody else:

Chas Alecxih

I'm also going to throw back in my b-boy stance once Avery owns souls. Thank God we haven't traded him - he's our leader on the offense.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by milkman

That's the first order of business, but it isn't quite that simple.

We need an ILB alongside DJ who isn't absolutely useless in pass coverage, and more pressure from at least 1 of the DEs.

That ILB, though, would really allow Sutton, if he does have the chops, to really maximize Berry's versatility.

Right, but I'm talking about last year.

If Lewis were benched, and Abdullah replaced him as teams like Houston and Buffalo started to figure us out, I'll bet Sutton never would have played the corners off the line, and we could actually press the shit out of Denver's receivers successfully.

I still don't know if the Indy game would have had the same result, but it at least would have deflected so much fan criticism away from Sutton. You wouldn't see such an abysmal product on the field for the second half of the year.

People are on my ass about this, but if we trade down from 23, Kyle Van Noy should absolutely be a consideration, where he can be the primary backup to Hali and the starter at ILB next to DJ when he's not. He would provide interior pressure and coverage skills that Mays, Jordan, and Belcher never had.

[milkman]

Originally Posted by Bowser

I agree. While I have been wanting us to take either a receiver or safety tomorrow, I would feel pretty good if we snatched up Kyle Van Noy. He can be your other ILB, even if he can play outside. The guy really is that talented.

Originally Posted by SNR

Right, but I'm talking about last year.

If Lewis were benched, and Abdullah replaced him as teams like Houston and Buffalo started to figure us out, I'll bet Sutton never would have played the corners off the line, and we could actually press the shit out of Denver's receivers successfully.

I still don't know if the Indy game would have had the same result, but it at least would have deflected so much fan criticism away from Sutton. You wouldn't see such an abysmal product on the field for the second half of the year.

People are on my ass about this, but if we trade down from 23, Kyle Van Noy should absolutely be a consideration, where he can be the primary backup to Hali and the starter at ILB next to DJ when he's not. He would provide interior pressure and coverage skills that Mays, Jordan, and Belcher never had.

I'm really torn on this.

I keep going back and forth between Jimmy Ward and Kyle Van Noy, but I think I've settled on Ward, and finding that ILB in the 3rd.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by milkman

I'm really torn on this.

I keep going back and forth between Jimmy Ward and Kyle Van Noy, but I think I've settled on Ward, and finding that ILB in the 3rd.

I really haven't studied linebacker depth much, other than to listen to the talking heads say that LB depth isn't all that great this year. Anyone you've got your eye on?

[milkman]

Originally Posted by Bowser

I really haven't studied linebacker depth much, other than to listen to the talking heads say that LB depth isn't all that great this year. Anyone you've got your eye on?

I know that there's a lot of people that look at Telvon Smith and think he might be moved to SS, but I would take him and work on adding about 10 pounds to his frame and line him up next to DJ.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by milkman

I know that there's a lot of people that look at Telvon Smith and think he might be moved to SS, but I would take him and work on adding about 10 pounds to his frame and line him up next to DJ.

I'd be into that.

Midrounders like Skov just aren't going to be the versatile pass defenders we're looking for. And unfortunately, that seems to be the majority of what this draft has to offer at ILB.

Even if CJ Mosley falls to us, I don't trust him to fulfill the role that we'd ask him to do. He'd be just another glorified Jordan/Mays until DJ can't do his job anymore.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by milkman

I know that there's a lot of people that look at Telvon Smith and think he might be moved to SS, but I would take him and work on adding about 10 pounds to his frame and line him up next to DJ.

This.

We couldn't agree more on the prospects we need to be targeting. Ward at 23 would be perfect, and my hope is Telvin's failed drug test ensures that he will make it to us in the 3rd and maybe even 4th.

What do you think about Cooks/Lee in the 1st since Ward is probably wishful thinking (not that he won't be there)? Van Noy would also be great, but like Ward I just don't see it happening.