Brian Orakpo - Nickname!!

[MTK]

Originally Posted by sandtrapjack

Just wanted to say congrats on Orakpo. He is one hell of a player. Living in San Antonio and a lifelong fan and alum of Texas, I have seen this guy play and watched him every weekend in the fall.

Dude is a beast, he is fast and strong. He reminds me a lot of Freeney. His strength is his greatest assett. He may seem smallish to some, but his upper body strength is elusive and he can shed blockers fast. The dude benches 515.

You will enjoy watching him play.

Nice pick.

Freeney actually seems like a pretty good comparison. We can only hope he's that kind of player.

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Freeney actually seems like a pretty good comparison. We can only hope he's that kind of player.

Yeah my only concern there is that we aren't built to have non-run stopping ends. Our LB corps isn't prepared to take up that slack. To me that means we have to get gimmicky with the use of Orakpo and I's rather just tweak our system to have our ends pin their ears back to go after the QB and the LBs fill in behind them for run support.

But Blades is probably too small for that type of continual role. Fletcher would be fine in it. Rocky probably excels there. That still leaves a huge hole where every team will run. Identify Blades' side and run there. Then we'll need to support behind that with Landry and suddenly our CBs are on islands again.