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Kony Ealy or Dee Ford

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Ok college player draft guru's, I am having a feeling we might be a surprised and pick up a DE in the first. Now I keep hearing everyone talk about Ealy and not Dee Ford. I know little on either, please educate me on these two players and why they would be good fits with us. Thanks!!

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tiger7_88 Experienced

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Ealy.  Ford is too small.  He's probably a 3-4 OLB.

 

 

What Linville said.

 

Don't get me wrong, if you notice my user name, you'd guess I *love* me some Dee Ford.  And I do.

 

But Dee Ford is not a match for DE in a 4-3 defense.  Unless he puts on about 20 pounds.  But then he'd probably lose the traits that make him so dangerous, his speed and quickness.

 

He showed at the Senior Bowl and in private workouts that he has the agility to "drop back" as a LB, so I'm pretty sure he's gonna make some 3-4 team happy.

 

So the answer to your question, though it pains me to say it, is Kony Ealy.

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Ealy has the potential to be a great player to borderline Elite! Best Ford may ever do is CJ level! I don't know this for sure, but it's my opinion.

That's a lot of praise for both players then because CJ is a top 5 all around De and has top 5-10 sack numbers since becoming a starter.

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Yea, we aren't gonna go DE in the first.

 

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we did. We've already hosted both Ealy and Crichton, who should both be top 50 DE picks, and we're looking at a horrible DE contract situation in the next season. I'm not saying it's a lock, but I don't think it's out of the question by any means.

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I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we did. We've already hosted both Ealy and Crichton, who should both be top 50 DE picks, and we're looking at a horrible DE contract situation in the next season. I'm not saying it's a lock, but I don't think it's out of the question by any means.

 

 

I agree bc of the money tied in CJ and Hardy. I think we might look for our cheaper replacement to CJ and extend the younger hardy. 

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I agree bc of the money tied in CJ and Hardy. I think we might look for our cheaper replacement to CJ and extend the younger hardy. 

 

I don't know how it will work, honestly, but I know that if we have CJ on our roster next year he's going have a cap hit of 17m, if we cut him it will only be 6m, so that's 11m. 

 

If we don't extend Hardy, then we free up the 13m from this season. 

 

Either way, we're saving a ton of money in the long run, and keeping our strength strong, which is something that I know Gettleman and Rivera are both very focused on.

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