(01-29-2020, 11:00 AM)TJBender Wrote: (01-29-2020, 10:21 AM)Mikey Wrote: @So basically Hays just plagiarized the board.@
I agree with a lot of what he said. I make an offer to Dareus, assuming recovery from the surgery is checking out well. However, I fully understand that if a competitive team makes the same offer, he may pack his bags.
I also agree that Swaim is not a cut on the first day of the league year. don't think his salary is guaranteed, though, so if he doesn't shine in preseason/training camp, he could be an early cut.
Absolutely agree that we can't really afford to cut Bouye, and I don't feel as strongly as some around here that his performance went downhill.
....am I the only one who is wary of an undersized guy playing MLB? Not sure I want a LB/S tweener there. He could be the smartest football mind in a generation, but I really don't want a guy who gets Doss'd by every RB who breaks through a gap in the DL.
First off, a correction for my dumb [BLEEP] it's Isaiah Simmons, not Williams. My bad. Second, he's not really all that undersized. He's 6'3" 230-ish. Jack is bigger, yeah, but Jack also spends half the game out of position. That's an indictment of Jack, because he's a much better player on the outside. Simmons wouldn't be a Poz back there, but look around the league. Poz-type big MLBs that hit hard and time their 40 with a calendar are quickly going extinct because as tight ends get faster, they're increasingly a liability against the past--just as Poz was towards the end.
Won't lie, I'm also looking at Simmons because of the number of highly-mobile QBs in the AFC right now. Watson, Mahomes, Jackson, just to name a few, especially Watson in the AFC South. If the Jaguars are going to succeed long-term, they'll need someone in the middle who can shadow and keep up with those guys. Simmons is as fast as any of them.
Don't get me wrong, if either Andrew Thomas or Derrick Brown are available here, they'd get my pick over Simmons. If Wirfs, Wills or Kinlaw are here, they'd also have to be considerations, although I'd probably go for Simmons over any of those but Wirfs. Our lines are in bad shape, but if there's a guy out there who can keep Watson and Jackson in the box, you've got to put a premium on that kind of ability in today's AFC.
Yeah, if we do draft Simmons I'd love to see him deployed in different creative ways to try to take away some big part of the oponents offense. Whether that be mobile QBs like you said, or dynamic receiving TEs, or scat backs coming out the backfield, or even a deep passing game... he seems to have the skill set that could effectively neutralize so many different things.
Of course the big question / worry remains, would our coaching staff actually be creative enough to use him in such a way?
