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Danial Thomas

As a KSU fan, I hope he continues to be solid. Then finds a a good job elsewhere in the league.
 
Yeah, he looks way different. I really think that getting cut AND not getting a call gave him some perspective. He looks like a guy who runs every run like it might be his last. At this point I say drop darkwa (ps prob) and keep Thomas for the rest of the season. No contracts though, keep him hungry for the remainder of this year.
 
Running hard and desperate. It's a big wake up call to look over the edge of a cliff and see your entire life and career about to tumble over. But most of the props has to go to the shockingly good run blocking our line has been giving us. I definitely wouldn't give DT snaps ahead of Lamar and I can't wait to have Knowshon back, but DT's done what he can to try to cling on in this league. Much like Tannehill received, players need harsh perspective to be applied to their careers to inspire a dramatic turnaround.
 
We should cut Thomas and bring him back more often.
 
Looks like a different player
I was wondering why they were giving Thomas reps over the fa's
and now we know why!
 
allsilverdreams said:
like i have said before.i cheer for the team first.yes he has not lived up to his draft position but if he can help this TEAM win i want him around
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Agree - cheer for the team...this is a TEAM sport. That said...

(and this is not directed specifically at you, silver...just in general)...

IMHO, the statement "x player hasn't lived up to his draft position" has been WAYYYYY overused on this board. LOOK - players get drafted where they do (and are graded as such) by the personnel departments of teams in the league, based on whatever evaulation criteria they use, and what they hope the player can become in that respective system. The players themselves DO NOT and CANNOT CONTROL WHERE THEY ARE DRAFTED (much to the chagrin of some of the posters on this board...again - not talking about you, silver...just in general). It is completely unfair to run ANY player through the ringer because they're not playing at the level the team HOPES they will play at. Yes - we can all express disappointment when said player doesn't play well, but I just don't think they should be chastised for not living up to their draft position. One only need to reference back to Ronnie Brown...a great running back in college..."worthy" of the #2 overall pick? Who are WE to decide? One just sets themself up for disappointment, OR, one gets to beat on their chest when the player doesn't do well and they call out the GM, etc, for being incompetent...does that make one feel better? Even undrafted players, including rookies on our OWN TEAM, can have good success in this league. How the hell does that happen, Mr. Personnel Guy??

EVERY player has strengths and weaknesses. We often hear coaches offering up the cliche phrase over and over again that it's their job to "put their players in the best positions to succeed...blah, blah, blah." Well - it's time for the coaches to hold up that end of the bargain, or maybe THEY should be the ones with their feet held to the fire. If the player has talent, find out what that talent is and exploit it (does Shula come to mind???). If a particular 'high drafted' player happens to not pan out, who's fault is it? The player, by virtue solely of where they were drafted? I think not. I would view it more as a collective failure of several elements including the player, scheme, coaching, or any number of things which we as non-player-personnel observers can only speculate on.

Of course these are just my opinions. Perhaps there are other who share similar thoughts, or you can just shoot me down. Regardless, let's cheer for the TEAM (thanks again for that, silver), and hope that each individual player does his part, regardless of where he was drafted.

There - I've said my peace.
 
SWS84 said:
Maybe, but I don't think you can really compare the two this game. One played during regular play while the other during scrub time when they knew we were just going to run the ball. I thought Williams did well a couple of times giving extra effort to get the first down.
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I'm like you, SWS...I like what I saw from Williams (toughness, determination, etc), and he's an undrafted rookie, for God's sake...he needs to be kept on the practice squad if the decision is made to remove him from the active roster; otherwise, some other team will snatch him up and use him the way we've failed to do.
 
So if Daniel Thomas stays that means Darkwa goes..I'm still not a Daniel Thomas fan..
 
FinfanInBuffalo said:
Agree. Thomas is cutting with authority. On a related note, can someone tell Lamar Miller that it is okay to try to avoid a DB when he breaks into the secondary?
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I was saying the same thing to my friend during the game. It was like he ran untouched to the second level, and then ran right at the safety. I know Miller isn't very shifty, he isn't going to juke someone like Shady McCoy, but at least run away from the safety and try to beat him to the boundary.
 
Thomas was a victim of our crappy coaching staff. Better NFL player than lamar no hands miller other than millers speed but that speed means nothing since he can't break tackles or shake anybody.
 
and Williams is a good player but hes a rookie. Needs more time in the league before he's our sole back up to Moreno. I vote keep those 4 and have a fantasy football nightmare in the backfield. We need to be a ball control team and run more than we pass. Our Wr's are horrible with absolutely no YAC ability outside of Landry (a raw rookie) and Wallace (as long as nobody breathes on him.
 
He looked decent. It still sucks that at his size he runs with NO POWER!!!
 
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