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Originally Posted by RunKC
Yup I’m with you here Pugs. Veach traded up for Speaks. I think he’s starting next season.
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who said we weren't starting Speaks?
And why would we move Jones to DE?
I went out for the evening, had some cocktails and slept in and it's like you all went nuts while I was gone.
It's rare to get the kind of pass rush from an interior lineman that Jones gives you. There's no way you move him outside, where he's further away from the QB. It negates all of the things that make him special. He's a natural 3 tech. Would you move Aaron Donald out to DE? Hell no, he's great where he is.
Speaks will be a fine LDE. I think that's the plan.
Nnadi's at Nose, or 1 tech with Williams backing up.
The only question is RDE. Ford gives you pass rush, but no run defense and he rarely plays a full season. Houston would be good but is also often injured and is wildly expensive.
It's probably going to be Ford; and Houston is probably cut.
I like playing with the idea of Flowers because he's young and good, solid all around DE. That seems like a good bet financially. I'm not sure Ford is.
But more than likely, we'll play him on the tag and kick the can down the road a year. It just sucks that the best case scenario with Ford is that he balls out and then he's $20 million a year as a DE in 2020. It'd be tough to pay that in any case, and tough to get anyone else to trade for it.