EAGLES Defensive Coordinator Bill Davis told the world that Vinny Curry doesn’t have what it takes to start in his 3-4 system. Or put better, that Davis doesn’t think that Curry at only 278 pounds, can be very good there.
Citing Curry as being under-sized, Davis said that Curry wouldn’t be able to handle the job of playing the run, and essentially said that he is strictly a pass rusher.
Remember last year when Both Davis and Chip Kelly said that the Defense wouldn’t be a 3-4 or a 4-3, that it would be “Multiple”, that it would be a “4-3 Under”?
WELL WHERE THE FUCK DID THAT GO? Because I sure as hell haven’t been seeing it!
Now we’re being told that career underachiever Bill Davis can’t find a way to get what could be our best lineman, out on the field.
This despite Curry’s dedication to get better. This despite the fact that any time Curry is out there, he makes his presence felt. Meanwhile there’s a role enough for drafting 281 pound Taylor Hart? With his 16 sacks in 4 years of COLLEGE? What the fuck is that all about? If 278 is too small to be a regular contributor, why draft that small at all, let alone reach to do it? Every player is an injury away from starting, right? Why stick yourself with a little guy, if you don’t believe in them on principle? Something doesn’t add up here.
So on top of being lied to about what we’re running (run whatever system you like, but don’t LIE to fans about it), we’re now being told that putting out tour best guys isn’t how this system works. Seeing as how it only yielded 39 sacks and finished dead last against the pass last year, I’m thinking that maybe it wouldn’t hurt to re-evaluate that aspect of our system.
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You shouldn’t be shocked about the multiple. Most of us knew they were going to stick with the 3-4 despite their lack of players capable of doing so. I hope Curry lands someplace where he can excel. I just hope it isn’t NY or Dallas.
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Not shocked at all. If you remember, I said last year that I didn’t think Kelly was being straight with the fan base. Now we have this situation where we apparently aren’t playing at least one of our better players. I don’t get it.
But yeah, New York and Dallas (because they both run a 4-3), are the two teams that I worry about seeing him go to.
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I don’t get how you can’t find a spot for a guy like Curry. Scheme or not the guy gets pressure. In the NFL pressure disrupts offenses. You know it and I know it. To be incapable of finding ways to use Curry says more about his coaches than it does about him. It’s like the Redskins paying all that money to fat Albert only to completely use him wrong.
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EXACTLY, which is what I was saying back when I originally was pissed over the hiring of Bill Davis.
Today someone in a group I’m in asked when Fletcher Cox is going to become a dominant 3-4 DE. The real answer is he probably won’t ever. He’s more suited to 4-3 DT, where he WAS becoming dominant before this switch.
That switch has stunted the growth of Cox, and Cedric Thornton; is keeping Vinny Curry off the field, and is keeping us from seeing if Brandon Graham (who still KEEPS showing flashes), can be a consistent DE.
Graham, Cox, Thornton and Curry is an entire defensive line, and would likely be an VERY good one vs the run and the pass, but because of our DC and his system, we’re a defense that has trouble reaching without sending 5 at least.
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