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05-13-2021, 11:18 AM | #2 | |
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I like Basham alright, but in all honesty, I see him as a high floor, low ceiling player. I seriously doubt he's ever a difference maker type, but will likely be a solid if unspectacular DE. I don't mind rolling the dice later on a guy like Kaindoh, who COULD be a monster player OR could be selling insurance in three years. We've got enough Mike Dannas. |
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05-13-2021, 11:42 AM | #3 | |
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05-13-2021, 11:56 AM | #4 |
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05-13-2021, 12:06 PM | #5 | |
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Kaindoh might not have Basham’s high floor, but he definitely has more upside. You can’t find a LB like that in the 4th. The thing people are missing about Basham is that he’s a guy that you would have to slide inside on passing downs to get the most out of his pass rush abilities. We don’t need that. We have Jones, Reed, and Wharton. We need a true edge rusher. |
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05-13-2021, 12:31 PM | #6 | |
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In the SB we didn’t have Willie Gay, and to their credit Wilson (goal line stop) and Hitchens (forced incompletion in end zone) made plays but if you watch the 2nd half of the SB Brady literally went to the line and audibled. Is Sorenson in as a LB? Okay we’re running. Is Neimann in but with Sorenson to put 8 in the box? Okay we’re doing play action. We had nothing in the middle of the field. It was by far our biggest weakness heading into the draft. They just could not expose Ben Neimann and/or Sorenson at LB anymore. Add that our biggest competition for a ring requires us to defend the middle of the field and the run. Browns, Ravens and Bucs. I wasn’t a big Bolton fan but I completely understand the pick |
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05-14-2021, 07:41 AM | #7 | |
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I'm excited with it. Alot of our problems against the run IMO, are that we have to play subpackages so much. |
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05-13-2021, 11:34 AM | #8 | |
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We got Humphrey at 63 which nobody thought could happen. If they would have taken Humphrey at 58, Basham was gone. I think they got good value and that's what they cared about. Not that they're in love with the guys already on the roster. |
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05-21-2021, 04:30 PM | #9 | |
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05-21-2021, 05:14 PM | #10 | |
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I can feel very confident that Basham was on their board because he absolutely fits the defense. It's more of a matter of where on that board he was. It doesn't mean he didn't fit KC's D by any stretch, and he is definitely not going to be playing inside. To top it off, he's a player that was universally graded higher than Kaindoh by 3 rounds. He's a guy that is a better overall player than what they started last year in all phases at LDE and his ability to rush the passer from the edge is severely understated. He likely plays the 5T DE position in the 4-3 Under in Indy since he isn't a pure speed, Wide 9 rusher, that would man the Leo there. Think more along the lines of Seattle drafting LJ Collier, albeit he was taken way too early and is was not as good coming out as Basham. He's a solid DE at 270-275 and showed the ability to live in the backfield. After all, he did have 22.5 tackles for a loss on 85.5 tackles with 15 sacks in his last 19 games along with 7 forced fumbles. The dude is a player on the edge. I honestly think KC made a big mistake passing on Basham for Bolton, even if I do like Bolton and what he brings to the table. Like I said though, we don't know where exactly he was on their board. I feel pretty good that it was higher than Kaindoh by a healthy margin but I can't say absolutely. That said, there is a reason Basham went 2 rounds earlier. As for Perkins, there is a good chance he wasn't on their board but I'm not sure it is absolute in terms of schematic fit and could be more about the issues he had that led to the suspension and other information gathered in the process. In terms of schematic fit, he's basically the same size as Frank Clark (definitely not the 271 he was at the combine but closer to about 250) so, again, I feel like just outright saying its schematic fit is making a big assumption. He's a first-round caliber producer that fell to the end of the 3rd, so there's something there other than skill for every team but I don't know what it is and neither do you. I give you a lot more leeway on the assumption he's not a fit here than with Basham. |
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