Not that they are the same player, but Gholston was in the backfield a lot too. He just couldn't apply pressure or sack the QB.
A guy with Coples size/strength/speed should be eating tackles up.... he did have 6.5 sacks last year.
lol…yes sir…i liked michael floyd also…unfortunately, i am not going to lie….i did like stephen hill a lot (yikes)….and i did want melvin ingrim over coples…yikes
I wanted Eifert over Milliner and a lot of people on this board laughed that you don't draft a TE high. I liked Coples as a prospect, but who would've predicted him going to outside linebacker? Dont'a Hightower would've been my pick though. I bet his career here would've been different if he played at his natural position.
I wanted Eifert as well and sure as hell didn't want Coples (Chandler Jones should've been the pick here). Belichick could make something decent out of Coples, but that's about it.
I am so happy it happened, and yet sad I didn't find out until today. Thanksgiving rocks!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving all!!!!!
I really don't understand the thinking by cutting him in the middle of the season.Something must have happend behind the scenes
Playing Devil's Ad here...But imagine this gives the Dolphins D-Line the bump it needs and turns around their season? K, not gonna happen but we've been bitten before.
It's a far fetched idea to think he could ever replace Wake on the fins D line. Coples still may get 3-4 sacks this year though.
Does he have the heart to go with the talent or are the spurts of energy just his realization that the clock is ticking on him fast? The two impact plays that he made this year were both flags for late or high hits. They were both the kind of play a guy makes out of frustration more than having a great drive to play the game. At least one of them did fall in into the "QB wears a dress" category but they were also continuing a pattern from the last couple of years. It's like the whistle starting the play blew a second late for Coples and so did the whistle ending it.
His best position is 3-4 DE....... now most 3-4 teams do not use hi picks on these guys as they usually concentrate on NT, OLB, and SS for the studs. Curious to see how the fins use him.
His best college years, if I remember my reading, were as an interior lineman. When he first got here and they lined him up inside, he showed good pressure. He may not have been the most motivated guy, and asking him to lose 20 pounds and run around a lot more might not have been the most brilliant strategy. Dr. Rexenstein trying to create a Suggs. I always thought Rex was crazy to do this. I still think this guy will find success as a situational pass rusher---from the inside. He is just not quick enough to get around the tackle.
He doesn't play with the right leverage to be an effective inside lineman in the NFL. His correct position is on the Island of Misfit Toys.
There's an argument for this but I think his best position is at 3T with a big NT next to him and a quick pass rushing DE on his right. I think Wilkerson and Coples would have been a set of dynamic 4-3 DT's but the Jets never had the ends or the LB's to make that work and wisely stayed with the 3-4 to better match their personnel. This was an improvement over the Parcells-Edwards-Mangini run when the Jets flopped fronts three times and lost out on a lot of talent (Hugh Douglas, James Farrior, Jonathan Vilma) in the process.
Interesting. Can't say I'm surprised that he wasn't happy with losing snaps to a chump like Bowen or even Douzable.