Was reading an article about Philadelphia Eagles and their scouting and measurables Chip Kelly says this
"Kelly explained the pitfalls of selecting players who do not meet those requirements.
"If you accept it, expect it," Kelly said. "If you accept that you're going to take a 5-7 corner and the ball gets thrown over his head, you can't say, 'Boy, he should have made that play.' He isn't going to make the play, the receiver is 6-4. There's a give-and-take.
"It's a tough deal, but if you take overachievers who aren't the right size at every position eventually you're going to have a 5-10 nose guard, with a 5-9 inside linebacker with a 5-8 safety and they're going to run the ball right down your throat and you have no one to kick in the pants but yourself because you decided to make those selections."
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The last paragraph just really stuck out to me as to what this staff has done on defense.Turn corners into safeties, safeties into LBs, LBs into DEs and DEs into DTs. You simply cant try to grow the whole defense. Yes, I know we haven't grown the whole defense and some of the issues were attrition but still. How many projects did we have on last years defense.
This post was edited on 3/25 5:07 PM by tazclone
Nails it
"Kelly explained the pitfalls of selecting players who do not meet those requirements.
"If you accept it, expect it," Kelly said. "If you accept that you're going to take a 5-7 corner and the ball gets thrown over his head, you can't say, 'Boy, he should have made that play.' He isn't going to make the play, the receiver is 6-4. There's a give-and-take.
"It's a tough deal, but if you take overachievers who aren't the right size at every position eventually you're going to have a 5-10 nose guard, with a 5-9 inside linebacker with a 5-8 safety and they're going to run the ball right down your throat and you have no one to kick in the pants but yourself because you decided to make those selections."
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The last paragraph just really stuck out to me as to what this staff has done on defense.Turn corners into safeties, safeties into LBs, LBs into DEs and DEs into DTs. You simply cant try to grow the whole defense. Yes, I know we haven't grown the whole defense and some of the issues were attrition but still. How many projects did we have on last years defense.
This post was edited on 3/25 5:07 PM by tazclone
Nails it
