3 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

I just have continued to have doubts about Nolan’s durability.

didnt Nolan play every game this season even the SB with a torn tricep? and he was healthy for every game last year....soooooo were is the durability concerns coming from? 

We would have been just fine with Steen last season if Becton never arrived. But always love the depth. So looks like we’re doing it again. Have Steen cross trained at LG and RG. I’ve been leaning towards wanting to take the NC St kid as the backup at RT. Could bring back Fred Johnson to swing at T. Steen can play T though…so maybe he gets even more training to just be the all around swing backup at everything. Anybody goes down? Steen comes in.

5 minutes ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

didnt Nolan play every game this season even the SB with a torn tricep? and he was healthy for every game last year....soooooo were is the durability concerns coming from? 

It was rumored Nolan wasn’t healthy all his rookie season…but he didn’t really play..until like the last game. It’s been really his only red flag since being a draft prospect. He did have a great one season this past year…and played through the injuries. But it still feels very relevant to me.

You can’t really say for sure…but I thought they were saving Nolan to let his body heal up his rookie season. That’s why he wasn’t in the rotation. I mean really…first round pick should be in the rotation at least.

So after having a whole season off to heal up his body and have it as fresh as possible he made it through this season. I believe there is a correlation involved there. We’ll see. I’m not trying to be negative…it just was the pretty universal knock on him as a draft prospect. He’s extremely dedicated hard worker that will reach his potential otherwise.

9 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

It was rumored Nolan wasn’t healthy all his rookie season…but he didn’t really play..until like the last game. It’s been really his only red flag since being a draft prospect. He did have a great one season this past year…and played through the injuries. But it still feels very relevant to me.

but he was active for all 17 games as a rookie and had playing time in them so even if there was an injury he still played and he played all of last year 

idk i dont really concern myself with a guys durability until they show they have issues like Dean he concerns me he has a track record of getting hurt but Nolan has played 

I see the Panthers signed Michael Jackson. Wonder if also only wears one glove?

33 minutes ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

idk i dont really concern myself with a guys durability until they show they have issues like Dean he concerns me he has a track record of getting hurt but Nolan has played 

Dean concerns me also. Both Georgia guys I like…but just feel it’s a concern. Both are dedicated natural leaders. I really like them both. Just my personal gut feeling questions them both on the durability front. They work hard and guys you want in the locker room and on the field. Both guys will do everything within their power to become the best players that they have control over. They can’t control the durability factor unfortunately…has nothing to do with them being out of shape or any knock on them like that.

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39 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

They can’t control the durability factor unfortunately

But again Nolan had played every game in two years you usually have durability concerns you know when guys are hurt not just your gut feeling he won’t hold up 

If/when Nolan starts to miss games then we can have talks about his durability but until then really no concern.

33/34 games in two years pretty sure the only game he missed is when we sat our starters v the giants last year… that impressive for a smaller DE 

I have more concerns for Jalen Hurts durability then I do Nolan and my concerns over Jalen injuries is fairly low 

21 minutes ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

But again Nolan had played every game in two years you usually have durability concerns you know when guys are hurt not just your gut feeling he won’t hold up 

He was held back his rookie season to heal up was my understanding. Go ahead and break down the D snaps Nolan took his rookie season. Hint: won’t take you long.

24 minutes ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

If/when Nolan starts to miss games then we can have talks about his durability but until then really no concern.

33/34 games in two years pretty sure the only game he missed is when we sat our starters v the giants last year… that impressive for a smaller DE 

That’s when he logged  his snaps actually

Can anyone please tell me where the CJ trade makes sense? Green basically sucks, played 27 games and started 23 as of 2024. In his rookie season, he allowed 47 quarterback pressures and committed 12 penalties.

 

34 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

He was held back his rookie season to heal up was my understanding. Go ahead and break down the D snaps Nolan took his rookie season. Hint: won’t take you long.

Yet still played in every game lol 😂 I mean undersized DE not playing much as a rookie on a deep DL isn’t that shocking to me 

Nolan Smith play 188 snaps 16% on defense as a rookie and 245 ST snaps or 55% as a rookie in 2023 

clearly the #4 DE behind BG/Sweat/Reddick 

Hunt this year 23% of snaps 52% of ST snaps and he became the #3 edge after BG got hurt 

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Dean concerns me also. Both Georgia guys I like…but just feel it’s a concern. Both are dedicated natural leaders. I really like them both. Just my personal gut feeling questions them both on the durability front. They work hard and guys you want in the locker room and on the field. Both guys will do everything within their power to become the best players that they have control over. They can’t control the durability factor unfortunately…has nothing to do with them being out of shape or any knock on them like that.

So I guy that was active for all 39 games in 2 seasons concerns you?

1 hour ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

But again Nolan had played every game in two years you usually have durability concerns you know when guys are hurt not just your gut feeling he won’t hold up 

Once Ham gets something in his head...it takes about a decade of proof otherwise to convince him otherwise. 

Watch Smith Nolan miss a game this year...and the big "I was the only one concerned about this...etc "  

Meanwhile Hurts missed 5 games 

52 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

He was held back his rookie season to heal up was my understanding. Go ahead and break down the D snaps Nolan took his rookie season. Hint: won’t take you long.

And let's not forget 2021.  

53 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

He was held back his rookie season to heal up was my understanding. Go ahead and break down the D snaps Nolan took his rookie season. Hint: won’t take you long.

Had zero to do with the greedy Reddick! 🤦

23 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

Can anyone please tell me where the CJ trade makes sense? Green basically sucks, played 27 games and started 23 as of 2024. In his rookie season, he allowed 47 quarterback pressures and committed 12 penalties.

 

Heard it was cap reasonings want to free up more cap space to lock up our core guys later plus they seem to like Sydney Brown and want to see what he can due. 

19 minutes ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

Yet still played in every game lol 😂 I mean undersized DE not playing much as a rookie on a deep DL isn’t that shocking to me 

Reports all over of Reddick not beinga team player just looking for individual stats.   Doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that this was a factor in Nolan not playing more snaps.

25 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

Green basically sucks, played 27 games and started 23 as of 2024. In his rookie season, he allowed 47 quarterback pressures and committed 12 penalties.

I mean Becton was a bust and failed in two stops before coming to Philly with Stout