to a 1 year deal. Beast or bust... For now I like the signing.
This tells me that we’ve been fishing around for some edge help but we’ve been low-balling our offers. Now there’s hardly anyone left and we get a guy that had 3.5 sacks in 2023 and 2 sacks in 2022. Fantastic. Welp, you get what you pay for. I’m praying that verse falls to us in the draft, but that’s not happening.
Well, he fills a need. I agree that we seem to have been trolling through the FA trailer park with a pocket full of dollar bills.
Not exactly a top FA signing (had to scroll to the bottom of The Athletic’s FA tracker)…
Does this mean we have begun preparing ourselves for the very real possibility that one of our preferred OLB/EDGE guys won’t be there at #26… ?
Plan B?
i doubt he's better than JTS or Nelson... waste of cap space imo
not signing or trading for a top edge rusher will haunt us all season!
For me, Randy Gregory is what JTS will look like at 31.
Maybe he’s another chess piece?
@white-tiger - haha. You might be right. Problem is all these chess pieces are just pawns. No killa pieces.
Yeah I mean he is a name only.
probably good to jump offsides at inopportune time
assuming we draft an edge high, along with diaby, JTR, Nelson etc.
not so sure he is guaranteed to make the team or maybe he pushes someone off?
What need does he fill? We have 5 young pass rushers on the roster already. I hate this move.
Low risk, high reward signing. He has the talent to make some plays and rush the passer, just needs to keep his head on straight. George Edwards was his position coach in Dallas during his best season.
I like us rolling the dice on a cheap 1-year contract compared to Saints and Panthers handing out $13-20M for Chase Young and Jadeveon Clowney.
I don't think this changes Licht's draft plans either. Pass rush will still be a position of emphasis. Can't wait!
I’d love the pawn analogy if it wasn’t so true! At the beginning of each year, all on the d-line has potential, by the end, all we have is two guys: one with 7 sacks, and the other with 3.5 sacks…@white-tiger - haha. You might be right. Problem is all these chess pieces are just pawns. No killa pieces.
What need does he fill? We have 5 young pass rushers on the roster already. I hate this move.
Depth but we have to see the edge the Bucs draft which I still think is very likely.
From that group the Bucs keep the best 5 moving forward.
@white-tiger - and every offseason we talk about the Watts and Ramirez types and they hardly ever meet expectations.
I think the chess piece comment is partly covering for his lackluster performance but Bowles described several players that way and seems to get pressure by deception (eg zone blitzing) so it’s at least possible there’s some truth as well.
@white-tiger - and every offseason we talk about the Watts and Ramirez types and they hardly ever meet expectations.
in one article Bowles seems to suggest that Dennis will pick up the pressure we lost with White
lot of pressure in new, unproven guys
@bucsbits - oh definitely. That’s what Bowles meant when he said it. I’m just saying that’s why he’s come to that realization… “JTS hasn’t been very good at the role we drafted him for.” So we make him a chess piece.
Bowles has his good moments, but he also makes plenty of mistakes. Especially with personnel, I.e. - moving Winfield to slot, sticking with White for 2 years too long, blaming our slip in run defense on Suh’s decline (which it hasn’t been the same since he was here.) It was due to the fact that offenses started running outside and wide zones to take advantage of our system.