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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 447659" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">What I like about the signing is it creates more competition. The Packers have to upgrade the performance of Neal, Wilson, and Wynn last season and while each of them have a chance to improve, five new DL give the Packers more options if they don’t. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">IMO Raji’s best spot is NT – McCarthy has said as much and before the 2010 season when they switched Pickett to DE and Raji to nose and I believe Pickett agreed with that. Since Capers has played a two man DL more than his “base” 3-4 finding two pass rushers for the nickel and dime is probably more important. At the first OTA they lined up Raji and Worthy at those spots and I’ll bet that’s who they’d like to earn those jobs. IMO Daniels, Hargrove (after suspension), and Neal (after suspension) are the next best candidates for those two spots, along with Wilson and Wynn if they can improve a lot. (I don’t know enough about Guy to include him as a pass rusher.) In the base I think Raji, Pickett and Muir are the candidates for the NT rotation. If they can find DEs, keeping Pickett only at NT should keep him fresher. Unfortunately Raji is probably their best NT and best DE in the base and their best pass rushing DL in the 2-4-5. But he can’t play more than one spot at a time and they have to limit his snaps to keep him effective. If Pickett and perhaps Muir can take up some snaps at NT in the base and if Merling or one of the other DE candidates can play a bunch of snaps opposite Worthy in the base, that should improve Raji as a pass rusher. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 447659, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]What I like about the signing is it creates more competition. The Packers have to upgrade the performance of Neal, Wilson, and Wynn last season and while each of them have a chance to improve, five new DL give the Packers more options if they don’t. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]IMO Raji’s best spot is NT – McCarthy has said as much and before the 2010 season when they switched Pickett to DE and Raji to nose and I believe Pickett agreed with that. Since Capers has played a two man DL more than his “base” 3-4 finding two pass rushers for the nickel and dime is probably more important. At the first OTA they lined up Raji and Worthy at those spots and I’ll bet that’s who they’d like to earn those jobs. IMO Daniels, Hargrove (after suspension), and Neal (after suspension) are the next best candidates for those two spots, along with Wilson and Wynn if they can improve a lot. (I don’t know enough about Guy to include him as a pass rusher.) In the base I think Raji, Pickett and Muir are the candidates for the NT rotation. If they can find DEs, keeping Pickett only at NT should keep him fresher. Unfortunately Raji is probably their best NT and best DE in the base and their best pass rushing DL in the 2-4-5. But he can’t play more than one spot at a time and they have to limit his snaps to keep him effective. If Pickett and perhaps Muir can take up some snaps at NT in the base and if Merling or one of the other DE candidates can play a bunch of snaps opposite Worthy in the base, that should improve Raji as a pass rusher. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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