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Well I passionately disagree with this, especially on Beasley, Folwer, and Ray
People treat draft picks like they are completely irreplaceable. Quality over quantity any day when it comes to draft picks
I guess we could go back to drafting the Bruce Davis and Chris Carters of the world...or maybe move up for the next Von Miller, Shawn Merriman, or Aldon SmithLast edited by K Train; 03-13-2015, 10:05 AM.Comment
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Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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Beasley - Has the explosion that we lack, Von Miller esque. Can play in space and can bend the corner to get after the QB. Added very good weight last year, he won the combine and definitely made the right choice by staying in school. Liability against the run, though hes decent in traffic.
Ray - Extremely thick upper body, little thin in the legs but is an explosive player with exceptional bend around the edge. Liability in the run game, as are most dynamic pass rushers.
Fowler - Extremely long arms and a very high effort player, has zero quit in him. Nice combination of pass rushing moves and good strength on the bull rush. Probably best of the big 4 against the run.
Gregory - Great use of hands, great use of length and bends around the corner very well....can play in space, is the kind of OLB you can put on a TE sometimes. Thin and lanky but versatile and explosive.
Odighizuwa - Is just my man crush...violent player, will beat the **** out of you. Can play on the dline or OLB, exceptional against the run, zero quit as a pass rusher and really might be in the young woodley mold as far as being referred to as "unblockable". Functional strength is what sets him aside, he is not just ripped but hes plays VERY powerful...something that is under appreciated. Being big is one thing, being freakishly strong and violent is a whole other attributeComment
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James C Wexell @jimwexell -
Really, only 3-4 OLB Colbert's found in draft s/2000 was Woodley, who was more 4-3 DE than any of them.
And if it doesn't fit the scheme, get a new scheme bc these 3-4 edge rushers, and inability of Steelers to find them, look so blockable.
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Round 3 (87) Pittsburgh Steelers: Markus Golden, OLB/DE, Missouri
Pittsburgh needs to improve its pass rush. Who knows if Jarvis Jones will pan out for the Steelers, while Jason Worilds retired rather than explore free agency.
Golden recorded 10 sacks, 78 tackles, 20 tackles for a loss, two passes batted and three forced fumbles in 2014. He started the season playing very well before injuries derailed the middle portion of his year. Golden finished 2014 in solid fashion and has natural edge-rushing skills. If he had stayed healthy, he could have put up a sack total in the mid-teens.
With the way that Golden and Ray played in 2014, Missouri didn't miss Michael Sam and Kony Ealy. In 2013, the redshirt junior Golden had a solid debut for Missouri with 55 tackles, 13 tackles for a loss, 6.5 sacks, one interception and one forced fumble as a backup. The 6-foot-2, 260-pounder has speed off the edge with some strength to him. He started out in the junior college ranks. Golden is a bit of a tweener DE/OLB who would fit best as a 3-4 outside linebacker.
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I like golden, but he doesnt bring the speed and bend factor to the defense he is kind of more of the sameComment
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Randy Gregory tested positive for marijuana at NFL combine
By Larry Brown
Randy Gregory may end up slipping in the NFL draft after it was revealed that he failed a drug test at the NFL combine last month.
According to what Gregory told NFL Media, he found out in a letter sent to his parents’ home two weeks ago that he tested positive for marijuana. Believing it was an invitation from the league to attend the draft, Gregory asked his father to open the note, NFL Media reports. Awkwardly, his dad is the one who ended up sharing the bad news with him.
“I blame myself,” Gregory told NFL Media’s Kimberly Jones in an interview. “And I know it sounds cliché, but there’s really no one else I can blame.”
Gregory, who recorded 17.5 sacks the past two seasons at Nebraska, is concerned that the test will cause his stock to fall.
“Am I worried? Yeah, I’m worried,” he said. “At the same time, I’m confident. I know I’m going to be all right in the end.”
Gregory indicated in his interview with NFL Media that he smoked weed in high school and at junior college after not qualifying academically to attend Purdue. He insists he is not addicted to it and that the drug is not a problem for him, but history says otherwise.
Gregory failed two drug tests in college and was a third strike away from being kicked off the team. His excuse for the positive test at the combine is also difficult to believe. He supposedly said he last smoked in December, but his THC levels were so high they triggered the positive test in February.
“I want people to understand I’m not some dumb jock pothead. I’m not,” he added. “I’m intelligent. I love the people who help me, I love my family, I love my support group. I love football. I love winning. And I don’t want to be labeled as some bust that couldn’t make it because he smoked. And I won’t be labeled as that.”
If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it probably should. Remember what everyone said about Josh Gordon when he entered the supplemental draft? He failed drug tests at every stop during college and continues to have a problem to the present. That will no doubt be in teams’ minds when they evaluate Gregory, who has the talent of a first-round pick.
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James C Wexell @jimwexell -
“@DaxOMillion: if Randy Gregory is there at 22,do u take him or puff puff pass?” -- I take him.
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I'd be amazed if he drops that low, but you take him if he's there.The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
Light up the darkness.Comment
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Analysts weigh in on the cost of Gregory's failed drug test
Randy Gregory said he failed two drug tests while at Nebraska.
By BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON | LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR0
A player’s stock can seemingly go in only one direction when failing a drug test at the NFL Combine. The news of Randy Gregory’s poorly timed misstep took a spin around cyberspace just five weeks before the draft.
But how dramatic will be the draft fall for the former Husker defensive end after he admitted that he tested positive for marijuana not only at the combine, but twice while at NU?
“I would be very surprised if he’s a first-round pick,” said Russell Lande of GM Jr. Scouting, and a former NFL scout. “And it’s not so much the pot. Because NFL teams are smart enough to understand that many try pot. What concerns them is everybody knows at the combine, you test for drugs. And if you’re not smart enough to not do drugs … then it points to either a lack of maturity or decision-making. And all of that combined is something that just says, ‘You know what, you may want to stay away from this kid.’”
ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr., in a Thursday teleconference, said he still projected Gregory to be selected between picks Nos. 8 to 13 in the first round.
Gil Brandt, senior analyst for NFL.com, told the Journal Star no one can know how far Gregory will drop after this news.
“I think people will now bring him in and let the doctors and psychological people talk to him, and just see, ‘What’s going on?’” Brandt said. “It’s unfortunate when somebody has such a great opportunity to make a lot of money, that you spoil it by not being clean when you know you’re going to be drug tested at the combine.”
Prior to the news, which came out Wednesday, when Gregory spoke of his mistakes to NFL Media, both Brandt and Lande had Gregory pegged as a likely top-12 pick. Kiper calls Gregory a top-five value pick in potential.
Gregory told NFL Media that he also tested positive for marijuana in January 2014 at Nebraska, and again three months later. He says he was told he’d be kicked off the team if he failed another test.
The 2013-14 drug policy in the University of Nebraska's student-athlete handbook says a player with two failed drug tests should have "extensive drug evaluation and rehabilitation before rejoining the team," frequent testing if allowed to rejoin the team, and "permanent suspension if situation warrants."
The policy has since been revised — changed last July and put into practice last October — and now states an athlete should be suspended for 10 percent of his team's games for two failed drug tests.
"At the end of the day, it was my fault. I was being selfish. I was being stubborn,” Gregory told NFL Media. “I felt like I could do things my way and it would work. And it didn't work.”
While Gregory very well still could hear his name called on Day 1 of the draft, it no longer seems quite as automatic that Nebraska will have a player chosen in the first round for the first time since 2011, when cornerback Prince Amukamara was picked No. 19 overall.
While Lande initially predicted the news will cost Gregory first-round status, he recalls Jimmy Smith, a cornerback from Colorado who was still picked No. 27 in 2011 despite two minor-in-possession tickets and a failed marijuana test.
Like Gregory, Smith was projected as a potential top-10 pick if not for the off-the-field questions. Many guessed those issues would keep Smith out of the first round. They didn’t.
“So it’s not 100 percent he won’t go in the first round, but I would say it’s probably 50-50 percent (Gregory) goes in the first round when you add in the weight concerns, too,” Lande said.
Gregory told NFL Media reporter Kimberly Jones that he has not smoked marijuana since December, but still tested positive for it at the combine because his THC levels were still elevated from that usage.
“I think a lot of people use marijuana and don’t realize that it stays in your body for 30 days,” Brandt said. “They’ve got all these wild stories, you can drink vinegar and all kinds of things to get it out, and I think that’s all just a wise man’s tale.”
While the news of Gregory’s marijuana use became public Wednesday night, the former Husker said it was something he talked about at the combine with all 29 teams he interviewed with. If the teams didn’t bring it up, he says he did.
Gregory also said marijuana is the only illegal drug he's ever used.
"I don't want my career to be defined by the fact that I had failed a drug test or anything of that sort," he said. "I want people to remember me as that top-10, top-five (draft pick) that had a 10-year career, a number of championships. I want to be known as that guy. I don't want to be known as a bust or that guy who came in with a drug habit."
Having left Nebraska a year early, Gregory’s freak athleticism is not questioned. While some have wondered exactly where his body type fits in the NFL game, he could find his place as an outside linebacker in the league.
“A lot of guys, you can draft them for one specific role. I feel like (with) me, they can mold me into almost any player they want," Gregory said at Nebraska's Pro Day in March.
And Wednesday morning, Gregory showed his skills during a workout in Atlanta, when he bettered his combine numbers by weighing in at 243 pounds, putting up 26 reps on the bench press and posting a 40-yard dash time of 4.53 seconds.
But now there's another layer teams must sort through.
“In today’s climate, everybody’s trying to be as clean as possible,” Brandt said. “It’s such a tough question to answer, because you don’t know how 32 teams feel. One team might go into his background and find it’s no problem at all. They’ll go down to Fishers, Indiana, and talk to the high school coach and they’ll do all those things to find out has this been a problem for some time or not.”
Gregory told NFL Media said he was “worse at Nebraska” with his marijuana use than at any other time in his life, but said he's making strides to get better as a person and player.
"I don't wake up every day saying, I'd really love to go smoke," he said. "It's not a struggle for me every day (now), it really isn't. In the past, hell, yeah, it's been a struggle. It really has been. Now, I'm focused on my dream."
The latest news is most unfortunate, Lande said, because everything else he’s heard about Gregory suggests he's well-meaning.
“This isn’t a bad kid who’s a problem child. He does what he’s asked. He’s a decent young man,” Lande said. “So that’s what the shame of it is. It’s not like this is a bad kid. He’s a very decent kid who made a mistake.”
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if Randy Gregory is there at 22,do u take him or puff puff pass?
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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