Comments on: Interest in Brooks Fading?

by: ted bundy

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:16:26 +0100

i dont think we would waste a first round pick on this guy, i think if anything we would try to get him at 6th or 7th

by: Eric

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:47:23 +0100

Nice job ShaneO. Based off of that info, how high of a draft pick are we willing to give up for a guy who seems to have a knack for off field issues. Look, the Niners are still using Oxyclean to get the shit stains that Owens left on this team. Do we really want the problems this guy can bring? For a linebacker? Here’s a few of my points:

1- He only played in 6 games last year due to injuries. Is he fully recovered? Is he injury prone? Are these nagging, reoccuring injuries?

2- Al Groh, coach for Virginia, stated they are in a rebuilding process at Virginia, and released Brooks for “undisclosed reasons”. If you’re rebuilding, a senior linebacker “stud” is what you want. Someone like Ray Lewis out there directing and leading your defense, and tutoring your young linebackers. Guess Groh didn’t see Brooks as that person. Here’s what he said exactly:

“There’s certain things that are vital to putting your team together every year, and those things become in sharper focus and are multiplied when you’re in a rebuilding circumstance as we are,” Groh said. “Those thing are focus, commitment, dependability, and so while each one of these players’ circumstance is distinctly different, in order to put the team together with some consistency and dependability, I’ve decided that it’s best for us to move on from these circumstances, and it’s best for these players to move on.”

3- He had one year where he was First team All ACC, and second team All America. One season! Where he only had 86 tackles??? Chad Greenway, Iowa Hawkeye who went first round, had 156 in 2005. Brooks is NOT first round material, should not be mentioned with AJ Hawk, Greenway, or any first round LBs.

I think those who are calling Brooks a stud are reaching, reaching for talent and reaching for some Niner news. I’m not impressed with Brandon Moore either, but I don’t see anything that shows that this guy is worth a look. Even if Mel freaking Kiper had anything to say, because that guy doesn’t know crap.

by: ShaneO

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:52:22 +0100

In late summer, the NFL also holds a Supplemental Draft to accommodate players who did not enter the regular draft because they thought they still had academic eligibility to play college football. The supplemental draft maintains the same team order from the regular draft, with the team with the worst record in the previous season picking first. However, in the supplemental draft, a team is not required to use any picks. Instead, if a team wants a player in the supplemental draft, they submit a “bid” to the Commissioner with the round they would pick that player. If no other team places a bid on that player at an earlier spot, the team is awarded the player and has to give up an equivalent pick in the following year’s draft.

by: EezyE

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:15:28 +0100

if anyone could help me out here i’d appreciate it but exactly how does the supplemental draft work? is it like a continuous thing all the way up until training camp starts and how do they determine what round we have to give up our pick in?

by: Moses

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:26:54 +0100

Year after year the 49ers scout supplemental players and don’t draft them. Yet, because people [i]want[/i] this “steal” they’re willing to discount everything that comes out.

Right now the 49ers are probably thinking they’d have to drop a 2nd or at least a 3rd. They’re not wanting to do that. They put out the word they’re not that interested.

Now, come July, maybe this turd drops to the 5th or 6th round… Then, having scouted him, you’ll have a better feel about whether to change your mind about drafting him because the worth of a 5th or 6th isn’t really much – a special teamer, injury risk, turd or conversion – so you’re getting the guy in a year early.

by: AntiG

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:13:54 +0100

Also you end up getting rid of your pass rushing one-gap DTs if they can’t/don’t want to change their technique to and play two gaps instead of always just penetrating. Hence why Warren Sapp was such a shitty end when the Raiders tried the 3-4.

by: AntiG

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:12:16 +0100

no, your biggest, strongest, stoutest DT becomes your 3-4 NT.

Your best medium-sized 2-gap DTs become the “ends.”

You end up getting rid of your DEs that lack the speed and athleticism to convert to outside linebacker.

by: Davis #6 Pick for President

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:55:27 +0100

A nose tackle is a Defensive tackle. Hence the name tackle. He’d called a Nose tackle in a 3-4 scheme because there is only one, so he plays in the middle, like a face has a nose in the middle.

Are you Nose Tackle purists telling me the when you switch from a 4-3 to a 3-4 that you trade your DT’s because you won’t use them? Hell no, your best DT becomes your Nose Tackle because, guess what??? They are the same damn thing just playing a in a different alignment.

This shit is Hilarious.

by: Eric

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:41:45 +0100

Who is he guarding Warren Moon or Doug Flutie?

by: AntiG

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:12:07 +0100

the 3-4 in 4-3 terminology can be looked at like this:

NT, huge NT, NT/UT

RDE, MLB/OLB, OLB/MLB, RDE

there really is no true anything in the scheme other than the NT.