(10-16-2023, 04:53 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(10-16-2023, 04:41 PM)carp8dm Wrote: He doesn't have the hip flex and agility to be an elite Edge Rusher...  He just doesn't.  But that's what bothers me about the whole thing.  Move him to the inside and let him blow up the middle of the line.

Marcus Stroud and Big John Henderson, man.  Travon Walker is the spirit animal of those 2 baaaaaaad dudes.

Travon Walker weigh 40 pounds less than Stroud and 60 less than Henderson.

Forty [BLEEP] pounds. What are you even talking about?

Moving him inside on some passing down snaps is an idea that everyone under the sun (including our staff) has talked about since the moment he was drafted. We should do that more. Right now - they are effectively doing that by running stunts with him and RRH and now they'll probably do it with Smoot too. It's starting to work. 

You're talking about altering him into something he most assuredly is not.

Hmmm... I didn't realize Stroud and Henderson were that much bigger.  But they remind me of Walker...  

And you said it yourself, Walker does do more shifts into the middle after the snap.  That means they understand that he doesn't have the agility to play the Edge.  I notice you didn't mention that.  That's the point, the dude isn't going to be an elite Edge rusher, he doesn't have that agility.  But he does have strength.  He blows up Linemen.  

I'm just saying there's a possibility that he can be special.  But it's not going to be on the Edge.

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