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The Case For Coples At 9...

Peppermint9030

By Peppermint9030,
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I know work ethic is a huge problem... I know Peppers took off plays, and I've even heard comparisons of work ethic to Randy Moss...But I'll take the hall of Fame numbers they have produced and pure dominance at their respectful positions over a guy that tries really hard and isn't as physically gifted as coples...

At 6'6 and 285 pounds running a 4.6 forty as his low it's almost disturbing how freakish that is...All of 2010 this guy played inside and was dominant. This is the exact size we need on the outside as well as even inside to help in the run defense. A lot of scouting reports I've read say he doesn't have the quickness for a 4-3 defensive end. A 4.6 forty IS quick enough for a 4-3 DE, but imagine if Carolina got this guy to lose 10-20 pounds in the offseason, were talking 265, 6'6 and most likely a 4.5 forty. If he came into the combine at those measurables hes a top 5 pick guarenteed.

Here's the best part about all of this, Julius Peppers weighed in at 283 pounds, he stood at 6 foot 6 and ran a 4.74 at the combine...coples measurable's stack up higher then Pepper's...As a defense getting a healthy Beason, and Thomas Davis back how can you not be frothing at the mouth for Coples. He had 8.5 sacks in 2010 playing inside! The guy had one down year! You can put him inside or out, and other personel will allow us to experiment with him. We can put him inside and have Hardy and Johnson off the edge, or slide him outside and have him and Johnson off the edge.

I know your going to jump down my throat when I say this, but alot of our poor run defense was also due to our end's. I love charles Johnson, but he is a smaller frame and sometimes gets blow out of the play versus the run, Hardy's got great size but to me isn't a starting DE he was taken late for a reason. Does that mean he can't rotate in? No, hes a perfect rotation end, but we are missing the dominating end that Peppers was. Not only do I feel coples measures up to Pepper's physically I feel he will play like a Jason pierre Paul and explode onto the scene.

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I think we may grab Coples. As much as people harp on how bad our DT's played, at the end of the day they were two of Rivera's very first draft picks, and I doubt he gives up on them so quickly. DT isn't the instant NCAA-NFL transition that people think it is. I really, really believe that Rivera will give McClain and Fua a minimum of another season or two to succeed before cutting ties and drafting replacements.

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Coples shows the kind of strength and speed on tape that should qualify him to go in the top 10 of this draft. When Coples wanted to get to the QB, teams were forced to double team him. When he didn't give a care, it was like he wasn't even on the field. So is he going to be Superman throwing people around, or Clark Kent fixing his glasses? Who the hell knows, and that's why he's risky.

Poe doesn't show much of anything on tape, but he has elite straight line speed for a man of his size, quick feet, and his ability in the weight room suggests he has elite strength in certain areas, but turn on the tape and you'll see that terrible o-linemen have had their way with him. By tape I mean crappy youtube videos.

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