Broncos cut ILB Andra Davis. Played well with Nolan last year in Denver. 3rd on the team in tackles.

Also, they cut DT J'Vonne Parker. He didn't play last year he was hurt. Hasn't played much in his NFL career really

Wouldn't be shocked if Nolan made a push to try and bring one or both of these guys to Miami.

Better in run support than Crowder but worse than Crowder in coverage.

BUT....better than Torbor who is lousy in both. Could be a great plugger in run support.

1st and 2nd down....

SOLB Dansby
SILB Davis
WILB Crowder
WOLB ?????

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Didn't Crowder play outside his first couple years here when we were in a 4-3 defense and Zach was playing the MLB spot??

If so, put Davis in the MLB position next to Dansby and slide Crowder to the outside.

Why not draft McClain like I have been saying and move Cerowder outside?

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MikeO Wrote:
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> Didn't Crowder play outside his first couple years
> here when we were in a 4-3 defense and Zach was
> playing the MLB spot??
>
> If so, put Davis in the MLB position next to
> Dansby and slide Crowder to the outside.

I like the versatility both Dansby and Crowder have. It gives us the option of shifting from a 3-4 to a 4-3 with either Dansby or Crowder moving to OLB and the 3-4 OLB (Wake/Anderson/JT) playing as a DE. It helps that Starks can play DT in a 4-3 or DE in a 3-4.

Yes our front 7 is shapping up very nicely. Flexible and young. I like our core of our front seven alot. Throw in a vet like JT and its a nice group minus the nose tackle position which I am sure we will address in the draft.

The Dolphins front 7 is the strength of our team currently. Few worries there now with the Dansby move. And hopefully getting a NT and OLB in the draft just adds to it



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2010 02:41PM by MikeO.

I don't know how much felxibility we have. Crowder proved that he is a below average OLB while Zach was here. And rushing the passer may be Crowder's biggest weakness. He's horrendous at it. In the 3-4, the OLBs need to be able to rush the passer. Crowder doesn't fit the bill at all. As for Dansby, his experience outside came in a 4-3. Moving him to OLB in a 3-4 would be asking him to do something he's never done before. It's silly to give a guy like that all that money and then ask him to play a new position.

dolfanmark Wrote:
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> I don't know how much felxibility we have. Crowder
> proved that he is a below average OLB while Zach
> was here. And rushing the passer may be Crowder's
> biggest weakness. He's horrendous at it. In the
> 3-4, the OLBs need to be able to rush the passer.
> Crowder doesn't fit the bill at all. As for
> Dansby, his experience outside came in a 4-3.
> Moving him to OLB in a 3-4 would be asking him to
> do something he's never done before. It's silly to
> give a guy like that all that money and then ask
> him to play a new position.

I don't think anyone suggested moving Crowder to a 3-4 OLB. Mike and I were discussing lining up in a 4-3. Crowder's played OLB in a 4-3 and ILB in a 3-4. So has Dansby. Being able to play our OLB on the line of scrimmage and, basically, shift from a 3-4 to a 4-3, gives us flexibility.

montequi Wrote:

> I don't think anyone suggested moving Crowder to a
> 3-4 OLB. Mike and I were discussing lining up in
> a 4-3. Crowder's played OLB in a 4-3 and ILB in a
> 3-4. So has Dansby. Being able to play our OLB
> on the line of scrimmage and, basically, shift
> from a 3-4 to a 4-3, gives us flexibility.


We don't have the DE to play a 4-3. And Crower was lousy in a 4-3. And we have no one to play the Mike in a 4-3.

dolfanmark Wrote:
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> We don't have the DE to play a 4-3.
JT and Wake BOTH played DE in a 4-3.

> And Crower was
> lousy in a 4-3. And we have no one to play the
> Mike in a 4-3.
Dansby?

Don't have DE's to play 3-4????????/

LE Merling, Moses
DT Starks, McD
DT Langford, Soliai
RE Wake/JT, Anderson

Wake is at his best with his hand on the ground. Merling is a natural LE and played DE in college.

Crowder was not lousy at 4-3 OLB.

Rookie year started 13 games at WLB...

85 tackles, 4 pd, 1 ff, 2 fr

2nd year @ SLB started 14 games...

104 tackles, 4 pd, 1 ff, 1 sack

SLB Crowder
MLB Dansby
WLB Torbor/rookie

If we sign Andra Davis...he goes to SLB and Crowder to WLB

Torbor was a 4-3 OLB b4 coming to Miami.

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with the releasing of davis, its looking like the broncos are drafting mclain