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Lets Talk Amini

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I've been re-watching some games and something that jumps off the screen to me is Amini Silatolu. His movement and strength are recognizable to untrained eyes.

 

Do you guys remember who played guard for us vs. Seattle? Amini was out. Chris Scott started at Left Guard, they benched him for Travelle Wharton, then Gary Williams goes down and Scott moves to right and Travelle is in at left. Then Chris Scott gets tired and they bring in Jeff Byers. It was a joke, it's amazing we stayed in that game. All of them were fat and slow.


 

The Bills tape is kind of cool to see because Amini is matched up with guys like Marcel Dareus and Kyle Williams. Dareus whips his tail once but Bell had already given up a sack so it was somewhat moot. He really held his own though and made some nice plays.

 

Amini's best game was vs the Gmen. He was a monster. We ran for 194 yards that day and Amini was a big part of that. That bomb touchdown to Ted Ginn was off play action with Amini pulling. He was pulling on almost every play with great affect.

 

 

 Some people don't remember all the yardage we racked up against the Cardinals, then Amini goes down and Travelle gives up a Safety and the rest was history. After Amini went down the drive chart looks like this: Safety, Interception, Punt, Fumble, Interception. Of course there are many factors into the failure that day but Amini going down was a slice of the pie.

 

I'm not here to lie to you. Amini has issues. Not as many as I expected though. He had a bad holding penalty and occasionally whiffs on down field blocks. His biggest problem of all is when no one engages him. He looks almost panicked, he's slow picking up stunts and tackled Cam twice.

 

If that knee heals well I really do think he can be a player for us.

 

I'm not a youtuber, I tried to put together a 6minute highlight film with visual aids and youtube blocked it immediately. So I made some smaller clips and put them in a playlist. Hopefully this works for you guys, probably not worth looking at on a phone. I chose plays where I saw Amini do good things. Do athletic things. Not every play is a big gain but it was positive stuff from Amini.

 

 

 

 

 

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4Corners Grand Master

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Big year for him coming up IMHO. He looked like he was developing LY before the injury. I've gone on record here that I didn't care for his pick. It looked like a reach. We need him badly to step up this season. Sadly though I won't be surprised if he's not on the roster in 2 years.

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I like watching posters here bitch about drafting Amini in the 2nd round while also trying to say how horrible he was at the beginning of the season.

He clearly started to understand things towards the end of his rookie season and was doing great until he tore his ACL.

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Amini is a solid starter and was a steal in the 2nd round. If we could somehow get JuWan James in the 1st round, the left side would be complete.

Wrong. Cordy Glenn was a steal, no way in hell Amini goes in the 1st in any scenario. It took him awhile to even get used to NFL speed.

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Amini is a solid starter and was a steal in the 2nd round. If we could somehow get JuWan James in the 1st round, the left side would be complete.

 

wat tf

 

anyway

 

Amini was a rookie.  He had a year to learn while getting better.   If he worked out and rehabbed the right way, he should be a very good guard.  I hated the pick.  But at this point I'm not gonna call him a bust.  

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