(10-02-2023, 06:15 PM)carp8dm Wrote:

(10-02-2023, 06:03 PM)Caldrac Wrote: It's an overall scheme fit issue. Walker would be a good DE in a base 4 - 3 alignment.

While he has the length and strength to be a great disruptor. 275 pounds is too light  to play consistently as a big end in a 3 - 4 or man the anchor as a NT down the middle.

You would have to figure out packages and alignments that specifically benefit him and it sounds like they have given him freedom to pick and choose his opponents along the line to be fair to the coaching staff.

He's been kept in check by TE's at times in one on one situations. TE's... that's an indictment on him. He doesn't have enough skills to rush the passer. Period.

So, we're stuck with him for now. We have a sledgehammer that's only good for beating on something when we really need a claw hammer out there that can hit and rip things loose at will.

He has one speed and one technique. Mind numbingly frustrating that Baalke passed that scouting report along to Pederson, Caldwell and Khan and they agreed on that over Hutchinson, a guy that's equal in size, strength and speed, BUT, actually PLAYED DE, put moves on tape to match the RAS score. He ranked 19th all time out of 1500+ prospects.

Walker graded out as number 2 all time with his RAS out of 1500+ prospects. On DE based metrics. Not OLB metrics. This is where the personnel department and coaching staff collectively failed in evaulations and projections.




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OK, so what do you do?  Because he's pretty much what he's going to be.  He's not agile or quick enough to get around Tackles and he doesn't have any skill set to beat any Tackles one on one, other than just a bull rush over powering push...  And you think he's not big and strong enough to move into the interior...  Is he just a complete fail of a pick? 

It sounds like you think we just need to move on after his contract is done.

We're stuck with him for 2.5 years. I said I think you give it to about week 10 with this OLB nonsense with him, but, he didn't do [BLEEP] against the Chiefs nor the tinhorns. Two lines that did have challenges on display prior to facing off against us.

I would give up on his OLB mold. He's not the second coming of Aldon Smith. Who I bet Baalke saw in him when he scouted Walker. I think you have to make him a DE and you have to figure out a way to have him work in conjunction with a big 3 - 4 end next to him like RHH, Gotsis, etc.

Make him run stunts inside around Fatukasi, RHH, etc. He's more than capable of doing this if they just let him do it.

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