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Do Marcell Dareus=Buckner=Kemo=Hollis Thomas?


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I know Dareus is more versatile than these guys, but I'm sure he'll be playing that same space eatting, taking on double team type roll. My question is, how much value do you put on these type of guys in terms of draft position? Again I know he's more versatile than these guys, but I still only see him playing on 1st & 2nd downs. Your thoughts? Oh, and for those of you that don't want to chime in, we can easily go back to talking about Cam.

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Buckner was nothing like Thomas or kemo

When brentson was here jenkins played the 2 gap, but he was so fast he played it like a one gap.

indeed... guy would be pushing 375-400 and could almost take the hand off from the QB on running plays... AND he was strong as any DT in the game... mauling OL with ease or just tossing them aside.

It's a shame his ligaments couldnt hold up... he had amazing talent.

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If we can get someone of Hollis Thomas caliber, I'd be satisfied. That dude played his ass off.

that really isn't that hard to find....Thomas wasn't that good in Carolina. Neither was Kemo.

Carolina if they wanted to do anything but force Fox's hand to play certain guys could have brought in bodies last year.

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