Mike Mayock On Vontaze Burfict "I Don't See First Round At All"

I wonder how far ahead of Kiper and McShay guys like BKing and djackfan were.

these kinds of things are why Tommy Lowler thinks the Birds will go FA for a MLB. No high impact rookies without questions.

Opinions are like____ (use whatever word or expletive) everyone has one. There isn’t a TRUE stud LB at 15; plus Kuechly gets enveloped by OL as well. He doesn’t shed blockers that great either. I am too lazy to link footage, but it is true. They are 1A and 1B respectively; neither a capable starter. One is too slow, one too dumb, one out of shape, one who doesn’t weigh enough..etc. We go super HAM (Hard. As. a Motherfucker) at Lofton, Tulloch, AND/OR Hawthorne. That’s right 2 LB in FA. We can pick up Keenan Robinson, etc in rounds 4 or 5. We also need another DT (ie Fletcher Cox, Jerel Worthy, etc), S like guy from Boise State, QB..like Nick Foles, and the rest for depth. I still think Vontaze will be worth one of our 2nds, AND he will turn out to be a stud in 2 yrs after draft

Anyone who thinks Kuechly can’t shed blocks hasn’t followed his career. Sure he occasionally gets blocked out of a play, same can be said for every linebacker. But the truth is he is that great shedding blocks. – 191 tackles this season! 102 of them solo. Anyone who thinks he cant shed blocks might as well say the earth is flat.

I really hope the Eagles get this guy

Here is a guy who just doesn’t play tough. He takes games off – not plays – whole games. His coaches stopped trying to coach him bc he just does whatever he wants to do – which hurts the rest of the defense. When he guesses right, he can destroy a ball carrier, but 80% of the time he makes the wrong read and misses the play altogether.

Kuechly is always around the ball. Always at the bottom of the pile. Always making the stop. We don’t need HRs – we need the guy with the high on base % who puts us in position to win.

But the Eagles aren’t high on taking penalties to give the opposition field advantages. Especially when plays have stop and someone in the move causes a personal foul, albeit it’s not personal just confounded. Who wants to add to the role as captain of the defense, that obviously leads the team in penalties or the rest of the team covers for his mistakes. We can’t have someone who’d take the game on a personal level, let alone in the locker room. Good player to start but needs a whole lots of work on this extreme personality. Maybe back in John Madden’s era, he’d be a darn perfect fit with the Raiders….it’s the 21st century, no team wants anything to do with erratic personality. Or someone who gives field advantages to the oppositions, how is anyone going to put some control in someone who does what he wants. I wouldn’t start him, just throw him in the mix of rotations. A darn good player, not projected as team captain and can be use sparingly in varieties of schemes, that’s plus just not on the top list.

However he’s simply a bad football player at this point in his life, maybe he will be picked up and will sit behind a LB for a few years and learn how to be a football player, decent human-being and mature up a bit so he can eventually be the LB he’s suppose to be.

I’d say our best bet to improve this Defense is to take Luke at #15 or trade up into the top 10 to ensure we snag him then go OLB in FA and Draft.