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could the packers be looking for their next elephant in this draft?
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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 548771" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p>I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at. I’m sure you aren’t saying the Packers could get a Julius Peppers – even at his age – in the middle rounds. And in the mid-rounds I’m not sure why that kind of pick would be a surprise.</p><p></p><p>But this thread does present an opportunity to talk about the elephant position. Silverstein wrote what I think is a very illuminating blog entry on what the Packers mean when they say “elephant”. It’s titled <em>Peppers will work with LB group</em> <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/packers.html" target="_blank">http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/packers.html</a></p><p></p><p>When they first brought up the term I thought they were talking about Peppers playing a 7 technique or some variation of it. Demovsky had an article to that effect. As the blog says, Ray Rhodes used an "elephant end" in his defense in the early '90s and so did Pete Carroll at USC and that’s what I thought they had in mind. But what McCarthy and the Packers are talking about is: Silverstein goes on to say in addition to Peppers, Neal and Perry will also be elephants and to emphasize the point it’s a body type states the obvious in saying more than one elephant will be on the field at one time. And they’ll play LB, DE, and DT.</p><p></p><p>A couple of points come to mind. First Winston Moss and Scott McCurley have their work cut out for them. (I hope Moss justifies his position as assistant HC -for the first time IMO.) And second, just calling players “elephants” of course doesn’t mean anything but I am getting the idea that the defense will be much more unpredictable. And that of course is good news.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 548771, member: 4300"] I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at. I’m sure you aren’t saying the Packers could get a Julius Peppers – even at his age – in the middle rounds. And in the mid-rounds I’m not sure why that kind of pick would be a surprise. But this thread does present an opportunity to talk about the elephant position. Silverstein wrote what I think is a very illuminating blog entry on what the Packers mean when they say “elephant”. It’s titled [I]Peppers will work with LB group[/I] [url]http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/packers.html[/url] When they first brought up the term I thought they were talking about Peppers playing a 7 technique or some variation of it. Demovsky had an article to that effect. As the blog says, Ray Rhodes used an "elephant end" in his defense in the early '90s and so did Pete Carroll at USC and that’s what I thought they had in mind. But what McCarthy and the Packers are talking about is: Silverstein goes on to say in addition to Peppers, Neal and Perry will also be elephants and to emphasize the point it’s a body type states the obvious in saying more than one elephant will be on the field at one time. And they’ll play LB, DE, and DT. A couple of points come to mind. First Winston Moss and Scott McCurley have their work cut out for them. (I hope Moss justifies his position as assistant HC -for the first time IMO.) And second, just calling players “elephants” of course doesn’t mean anything but I am getting the idea that the defense will be much more unpredictable. And that of course is good news. [/QUOTE]
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