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Those draft prospects are tough to get excited about when you immediately have to ask, how many of these guys are getting NFL shots?

nor is intensity...physicality....having to react...list goes on and on you cant get in to game condition either in practice...not in this day and age

Practice speed to game speed not even close.

they dont ripen with no playtime...if anything they stagnate and it slows their development And interesting you mentioned those 2...guys allowed to get at er right out of the gate...learn as they go....Verasuk is another being afforded the same opportunity...DeQuay before them....Richards got a ton of playtime but got hurt....thats to just name a few Nobody ripens in practice.....just doesnt happen

can chase punts too....athletic dline guys as well....going 3 import olin here this yr just robbing Peter to pay Paul and the net gsin is miniscule if at all..... I think it's more the value Eli brings to the Te and jumbo/short yardage package and the lack of faith in Kolo being the 6th oline guy and no ability at all to do what Eli does...hence by default he stays at center....cause nobody can say Eli doesnt excell at that role...a role of blocking and getting into the second level and taking guys out part of the poor roster issue and lack of keeping any around....We have Cobb...a guy with a couple yrs experience...scored a few TD's...averaged over 8 yrds a punt return...shade over 23 on kick offs...he being left off.....so explain that?...They seemed very happy to pick him up Covered kicks in pre-season.....so his value is he backs up 2 positions...plays teams ..and is experienced....and Canadian...how does Thomas....Ball...Weitz...Korn...Corcorran...get on before him?.....has more real value than all those plugs combined

Ya I'm more than happy to let the two LB kids ripen... We're not in a rush with them, especially if they are Cam Judge and Alex Singleton.....

I have no idea what his skill level is, but I would say he has zero chance of ever reaching the PGA Tour.

Dillion Mitchell, your time to shine. (please?)

what's the ST only prospects looking like?...lol...

among many others....our guys....nadda... Anthoiny Bennet...the 26 yr old playing against 18 to 21 yr olds...stupidest pick ever and his uselessness was easily seen...only one 's saying pro ready was our duffess staff trying to justify it

I'm all for rotating Shay & Smith in but I also don't put too much stock in the "most pro ready" tag. We heard the exact same thing about Anthony Bennett.

How is that rushing tho?...it's developing, and assessing....and if you can get more value out of them over the 3 yrs even better. Other teams have first yr guys every yr making impacts...draft picks and recruited guys....Us rarely and even then...it's cause we had to play a new guy due to injury or defection....I can't even think of a player we played who pushed out a vet.....Thats how we got T.Jones...vet guy who got cut as they determined a rookie was better option...and he won R.O.Y...woulda never got that chance here..... Our coache's are quite comfortable rostering and playing crap too...so if the young players...National and Import are better...then that's a win Guys not getting a sniff at all too can wanna leave as well after those 3 yrs when they see counterparts elsewhere getting to play, or a lil tampering goes on and are told "hey you come here next yr...you will play"....then we right back to square one again Reps in a blowout loss or win are wayyyyyy more valuable and inciteful than running skelly in practice....or playing the part of the team we playing next week players we did it with Cooley one game as well...and saw nary a rep...I have no faith they will know what to do with Logan until shown otherwise Jones was used a lot on defense the one game....and was our best of the yr, and also the game coincidently where T.Jones picked up his play too, The fact we stopped using him on defense was kinda dumb...and our defense hasnt looked as good the last 2 games due to it

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You're creating a false argument. Many of us, myself for example are calling for Smith and Shay to rotated in on D, not to start. Shay getting no reps at all on D through 9 games is baffling when he was touted as ready to start right away. As for developing picks slowly, you're argument really does not hold. Alford, White, Fortin, Veresuk, Shanks have all started games this season. Labrosse, Mardner, Cantin-Arku, Mital all contributed as rookies last season.

Easily most balanced roster we've put on the field. Arguably best, but without Schoen. See if Logan gets offensive reps. Don't really care about dropping Jones. They don't use him on D. They don't use Ayers or Wilson on D a ton either. Between those 3 spots you're looking at most 40 snaps a game. And that's on the high end (last week) so far. They've needed to flip that DI to O for 9 games (aside from the Cooley experiments). Finally did.

Nine games in (1/2 the season), six defensive tackles divided by X amount of reps = Jake hate?

Are we leaving quality receivers off the game day roster? There is your answer. That being said things will be looking up once Schoen is ready and Wilson inevitably returns.

Dillon Mitchell

Kola needed to be addressed in the offseason. It is abundantly clear that the coaches have no faith in Eli at C.

They started the season with 3 American OL... And again we go round and round... does the depth suck because of the GM or does the depth suck because of the way the coach uses the roster and practise roster? We have a brazzillion linebackers and dbs every game just to chase punts... why? We have 0 for receiver depth on an already weak group... why?

Look, I'm all in favor of a few reps here and there. However, not until the coaches feel comfortable with it. We have 3 years of these players being locked in, there is absolutely no reason to rush things. NAT draft picks are the one type of player that we can ripen on the vine. Yea...we could insert them into blow outs, but honestly those are practice reps as well.

you dont develop in practice...you need real reps...In games where the outcome was basically a non issue...and there been many....they should have got a lot of reps....but we risked our starters if for anything getting hurt in a lost cause....and we all know we can ill afford any injury Also it would make practical sense to allow then rotational reps here and there as well un a game ...we trot out other guys who in all reality do nothing for us and at times are a detriment...so really not trying your rookies...especially one whom was touted by many experts the most po ready guy in the draft

Do we want to win, or rush our draft picks into duty they may not be ready for? I have no issue letting first year draft picks develop slowly, it is usually of great benefit to both the team and the player. I am not understanding what short coming people are seeing that would require us to play Shay/Smith right now? If the argument is for a ratio shift along the DL, then are we willing to downgrade LBer play to get this done? Look I want every draft pick to be a starter sooner rather than later as well, but I see no benefit in forcing the situation when we are not necessitated to do so. More players are ruined than actually excel when put in that situation. There is a lot to dislike about our current roster but tossing players in just to see what happens is incredibly short sighted and probably leads to losses if we do it on any kind of scale. What's the concensus around here? That we should give up on this season and start going towards next year?

Noticed ayers in last game taking more reps, but agree OShea /Younger need to start putting more faith in younger guys like Smith and Shay that they raved about at the draft This would benefit our ratio mgmt greatly

Demski