Dominique Barber fitting in well

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Originally Posted by Bigtinylittle

I am very leery of reading too much into Kubiak's comments about players. I think he makes a lot of them just to psych players up/increase camp competition, etc. Grain of salt. Remember, last year he was touting how wonderful Charlie Anderson's play was. But by the start of the regular season, Anderson was third string, and now he can't even make the team. Did Anderson's wonderful play suddenly disappear? Or was Kubiak just sending messages to the players? My money is on the latter.

iirc, anderson bailed to miami after last season was over. also he came in and played situational downs and i thought he did look good. i think it was him who knocked the hell out of jay cutler...

Originally Posted by nunusguy

I dunno, but I'm still trying to understand why we didn't use our 6th (or 7th)
round pick on a pass-rusher who might have the potential to develope as
the kind of edge-rusher we need opposite Mario on third-downs (or other passing situations) ? Apparently the Texans felt there was just a total absense of pass-rushing talent out there at that stage of the Draft ? This Barber kid may be a good prospect, but we've already got all kinds of similar type players on our roster, while at the same time we've got a real unfilled need for a weakside edge-rusher.

tommy blake was the big name that i can remember, but i'm sure that there were a few guys we could've taken a stab at over alex brink. i'm willing to let kubiak have his guy as a project, but it does seem like the pick could've gone towards filling out the team's weaknesses instead of filling out the team's need of a 3+ year project