Thats just down right nasty. Now can he turn that into NFL type caliber? We will see. Mike Smith loves linebackers just as much as the D-line and I think we got who he wanted. If Kroy could make a name for himself on ST's then I think we have what we were looking for. Hopefully one day he could take over for Keith Brooking if he is everything he is made out to be in that video.
The Falcons will play Biermann at defensive end in camp and in preseason.
Chauncey Davis and Simon Fraser have reason to be nervous about this draft choice. This kid definitely has a non-stop motor, and his linebacker experience gives him an advantage in competition for one of the backup spots.
Falcon friends I am left out as I no not how to make my conputer view this Montananite . But I see that filthyfowl and Torgo are impressed so I'll pretend that I too witnessed his goodness and concur. How is one to pronounce his name? Dyslexic parental units should be dezilirets at birth.
This pick puzzled me at first because we had other needs like dt, and te we could have had keilen davis "body beautiful" or Dre Moore but i guess Mike Smith likes are rotation of babs,moorehead and the rest of the gang. Bierman is a freak at a small school the defensive Jerome Simpson "he hurdled a guy on a u-tube highlight". He will pitch in on special teams mostly were he will be our Larry Izzo and he adds depth to de with chauncy davis. Smith is a defensive coach and not addresing the need in the draft he must like the guys, he will light a fire under them and if everything else fails there's always Rod Coleman
Heinz-sight is always 20/20. I am beginning to see a pattern here, how about you guys? Every time we have a discussion like this about who we should have taken instead of who we did, there is always a name brought up about a guy we should have taken but we passed on. Well every time that name is brought up I tend to check them out and see who we passed on, and I see the same thing every time. I see a guy who could potentually be a character problem, and if not that I see a thuggish type of guy, you know the type we are trying to get away from.
At first I hated the draft and didn't want nething to do with the Falcons, but now I realize what they were doing. Yeah sure we have a lot of needs to address, but they weren't the type of guys we were looking for, that will come in time. Just relax and take a deep breath and take in this draft as a piece of the puzzle instead of the whole picture. This is a 2-3 year rebuild process depending now on how fast Matt Ryan comes on, but our DT will be addressed when the time is right. I don't know about you but I am beginning to see what the Falcons front office is doing, does anybody else now that we have had time to really check our picks out in depth?
I wanted to see the team trade some of this year's picks for future picks, but I'm cool with the positions the Falcons took in the draft.
Coach Smith hasn't come out and said that Rashad Moore is his starter at the nose tackle spot, but Dimitroff said in several interviews that the free agent signings on the defensive line "allowed the team to go in other directions" in the draft.
Reading between the lines, he's saying that the nose tackle position has already been filled. And now that I've seen him in practice, I can say that Rashad Moore is indeed a nose tackle. We already know that Trey Lewis can play that spot too. Any other NT taken in the draft would have been hard pressed to make the roster anyway.
I still want to see the Falcons pick up one of the undrafted guys at that position as insurance and as a prospect for the practice squad. But the roster limit is much lower this year than in previous years, so it just isn't possible to load up with extra bodies for camp at every position. If Lewis has a setback in his rehab or if Moore gets hurt in camp, the team will have to sign someone else - perhaps Grady Jackson.
For now, we can probably assume the defensive tackle situation is like this: Rashad Moore and Trey Lewis have the inside track for the NT jobs. Kindal Moorehead and Jonathan Babineaux are the frontrunners for the UT jobs. Montavious Stanley and Tim Anderson are trying to win roster spots but are currently on the bad side of the bubble. David Patterson is just trying to win a job on the practice squad, and all Eric Butler wants is to come to camp this summer.
The selection of Kroy Biermann makes things a lot more interesting at DE, which is where Smith has said the team will practice him. With his aggressive play and non-stop motor, he'll probably do well on special teams. And since he can also play linebacker, he'll have an extra edge because of his versatility.
He'll make it tough for the practice squad DE prospects to have any chance at all of making the main roster, and Chauncey Davis and Simon Fraser are no longer secure in their jobs.
You really have to like a guy that plays that hard. He's too small to be a real DE on the NFL but should be a capable rotation guy for DE and OLB. If everyone played this hard on every down we'd be unstoppable.
I agree. Get guys that want to win and will do anything it takes to win. There are a lot a talented players in the NFL that also put a lot of passion into to what they do. With guys like that on your team that's how you win Super Bowls.
That's the way the Patriots were built and that's the way we will be built. You can't afford to have a bunch of undisciplined players that don't want to work on this team any longer, if we expect to compete for division titles and a Super Bowls.
One other trend that I picked up on is that we drafted players from big-time programs. Guys that have been in the battles and competed on some of the biggest stages in college football. Gamers so to speak. Guys like Ryan, C. Jackson, Lofton, Baker, Douglas and DeCoud should all pan out to be great picks for us. Question Baker, but he played hurt and was still a three-time All American. The last time I checked, the Pac-10 puts out some prett good defensive lineman, so it wasn't like he was playing for Hawaii.
I agree with Torgo though, patience my friends, patience. We will have a really good football team very soon. The move to hire the Ravens director of college scouting was also another brilliant move.
