Everrett Brown called most impact rookie next season

[hdevonxz]

Why would we move Peppers for Brown?

[holderoftruth]

It was Schlereth who said that Brown would have the biggest impact as a rookie not Hoge.

Hoge said that Jason Smith would have the biggest impact.

[scpanther22]

Why would we move Peppers for Brown?

this is true..if peppers leaves brown will be a RE and c.johnson will be the LE

[rayzor]

Why would we move Peppers for Brown?

because catman said brown should play at RDE.

really, it doesn't matter what brown is most suited for. pep is going to be playing the right side...the side that comes natural to him and that he wanted to play at the whole time he's been here.

brown is going to play where he will be useful, whatever side that is.

he would be better at the right side but so would pep. that is where pep is most likely to be.

maycock's opinion doesn't matter. they aren't likely to move pep back to the left side to make way for brown.

[rayzor]

this is true..if peppers leaves brown will be a RE and c.johnson will be the LE

yes.

if pep is there, he will be on the right and brown will be on the left side.

[Fiz]

Assuming Peppers stays, which is looking more and more likely, there is a big logjam at DE.

Firstly, I buy that Brayton is only a run stopper. i think by the end of the year he really came on at DE and was outplaying Peppers, but that might just be me. So let's say you're going to bring in a pass rusher for third downs. You take out Brayton and put in who? Brown? Johnson who had six (shoulda been seven) sacks last year? Certainly you don't take out Julius.

Do you put Brayton into the DT tackle rotation, where he was awful in Oakland? Seems like it would be a waste. Do you do something like the Giants and line up Brown - Johnson - Brayton - Peppers on a pass rush and replace Diggs with another corner?

[engine9]

because catman said brown should play at RDE.

I thought that was SAM.

[Fireball77]

Do you do something like the Giants and line up Brown - Johnson - Brayton - Peppers on a pass rush and replace Diggs with another corner?

Yeah if Martin works out, I can see this. With passing games tearing up the Panthers the way they do, this would be a good option, IMO. And with the rules shaded more towards passing offense, I think a team has to have 3 pretty capable (starting level) CBs.

[Panthro]

Catman = I am Sam

[Fiz]

oh btw hilee taylor is gone done bye bye

[rayzor]

I thought that was SAM.

he'll do both.

[Udogg]

oh btw hilee taylor is gone done bye bye

I was thinking that same thing. Unless he really put in work in the off season I think he may be the odd man out.

[Mr. Scot]

So your going to put the 6'1" 250 guy at LE??? That makes no sense.... bigger of the two needs to be at LE to hold up against the strong side of the offense.

We once put a 5'9 inch guy at middle linebacker.

[Mr. Scot]

i was in the process of making a collection of peppers sacks using the nfl replay re-cutter and had browser problems losing what i did but anyway, looking at all of peppers sacks and then comparing it with browns...i got to tell you that brown was a lot more fun to watch.

90-95% of peppers QB pressures are bull rushes. brown, though, has an amazing repertoire of moves. that dude is going to be outright lethal.

peppers does one thing and does it well but you always know what he is going to do.

brown...you never know what he is going to do but what he will do is exploit every weakness he can find. everything from figuring out the snap count and being able to anticipate it to flat out abusing and burning the OT is really sweet. it's almost like he uses judo on them the way he uses their size, strength, and momentum against them and gets around them....and everything he does is so quick. there were several sacks i saw that i had to watch 3 or 4 times just to see where he came from.

i can't imagine what it is going to be like once he gets some more experience.

I know Peppers can do other pass rush moves. I've seen him do them, but in the heat of battle, at game speed, as often as not you go with what you're most comfortable doing (unless you're industrious enough to try other things).

You're correct that the majority of his successful plays have been bull rushes. Maybe that's why he's been more easily neutralized/hasn't been as dominant as we'd expect. Same thing with Freeney. If you can handle a spin move, you can handle Freeney. It's basically his whole thing.

You'd think that, given he can do both power and speed, he could switch it up a little better depending on who he's facing. Ah, but that would require effort, and effort is the big question everyone has, isn't it?