WhitewalkerInPhilly

Would anyone consider him to play the Heavy 5 technique, a la Alan Branch? He graded out positively as a 3-4 DE, which he would kind of be in Pettine/Rex's system.

Wow I am shocked at the level of Brown dislike. I love me some Freddy, but I have to agree with Kelly. Fred definitely seemed slower and he didn't pick up the tough yards the same way as previous years. I think he falls during camp and possibly gets cut.

I find the idea that Roman won't know what to with Shady ridiculous. Even if you buy into Chip Kelly being a genius, Roman certainly knows how to scheme the run game. The Niners have been top 5 for the last few years. FWIW, in Philly the perception is that a big chunk of why the trade happened was that Shady didn't necessarily "buy in" to the Chip Kelly approach of running things like a college team with that level of involvement. A prime example was cutting DJAX coming off a Pro Bowl season for nothing but dead cap space. Whatever you think of his x's and o's his personnel management is...contentious.

Has anyone considered Odrick? If we are willing to pay something like 8M a year for Hughes what about for a guy you can play every down?

Are you particularly frightened of Landry? Wallace is good, but not elite. I honestly cannot think of any team that would pay him almost ten million dollars this year. I would be more than happy to have him be the albatross around their necks. And that still doesn't answer how they are going to afford to pay their draft picks. At this point, most likely it's going to be cutting a very good veteran player to give themselves some breathing room. Hey, I'm looking for positives.

My only consolation is that's a **** ton of cash to keep him, which digs them even deeper into cap hell. He might be their only receiver.

Well, they still have Wallace but they really are having a fire sale. Hartline gave them more dead money than cap room.

Any news on a signing?

The Philly radio talk show perspective is that they can't believe he got cut. The line there really struggled early on, which led to Foles getting beat like a piñata. I would most definitely take a sniff.

Leroi often has good sources, and that scares me if the plan is to cut EJ and put McGowan on charge

It looks like there are a lot of people they can cut for savings, but if it means having them cut Cameron Wake to keep clay...

Does that also not include the draft? Last year at that spot the Bears paid 2.2M in cap space for Fuller. Between all those picks, would they have any space left?

Pass for me. Maybe, only maybe, at a discount to rotate in at the 5 tech if we keep Hughes.

I would take either in a heartbeat. How's that Byrd deal looking now NOLA?

If that man is getting an average of $4M a year from the Dolphins I would have him fire his agent.

One, I have say that I like the idea of a FB who can catch a ball. That said, picking up someone even a project like James, it could at least help with cap space.

Good point. Their measurable are pretty close. Gronk is a bit faster (4.6 to 4.8) and James is a bit stronger (26 reps to 23). Plus you can't teach size. He'd be an interesting 3rd rounder at least.

Honestly Jesse James apart from having a cool name ran a 4.8 and has 26 reps. At least as an upgrade to Lee Smith or a fresher Chandler

That might actually be an insult to Chandler. As improbable as that sounds.

I live in the Philly area. The guy is a ghost. The name doesn't register but like you said that's a solid pair to try to beat out.

I was excited to hear Bradford open in a trade. Then, I looked at his numbers next to EJs. EJs 14 starts compared to Bradford's full season has better Y/A and a slightly better TD:INT ratio. Even in his best year, Bradford's best Y/A is 6.7 to EJ's 6.4. That's not a huge improvement for a $12 cap hit.

I don't want to go overboard on Marrone bashing. So I'll stick with facts on the record. -Mike Williams and Marrone have a falling out while at Syracuse. The exact way it went is contentious. -Mike williams averages over 800 yards and 7 TD a year with non optimal QB play in TB. - In offseason of 2014 Mike gets traded. -Mike Williams, despite his prior success cannot beat out Chris hogan on the depth chart. - In four games, MW averaged 33.3 YPG. Hogan would average 26.6 all year. Now, it's possible that Marrone's personal feelings played no part. But as Roman said recently (paraphrased) "the best indicator of future success is past performance". Several years of success preceded MW before he came to Buffalo. Even in a limited role he had better numbers than Hogan. His big TD against Houston showed the he was an able route runner, and had good speed to go with his size. Personal opinion: either Marrone went entirely by football sense and got rid of a talented player because he was a bad judge of talent or Marrone let a vendetta get in the way of his team's performance. Either way, I see it as a mistake.

Actually, thus is better than I expected which isn't saying a lot. I absolutely don't want him starting. If EJ can't beat him out, I'm talking a long walk off a pier.

Exactly. I'm hopeful that RI is still in 2012-13 form. But C. Williams never showed us much, and Richardson is still a project even if showed flashes.

EJ is faster than Alex Smith, and he played pretty darn well with Roman's run game.