Sami84
Ravens Ring of Honor
If we pick Murray, I will say straight up that he needs to get straight to work on becoming an edge. Edge rushers don’t have to rely on their eyes or making reads, they can just pin em back and go attack, which is what he does.
I don’t wanna sit here and act like Murray would be a good pick, but I will say that if any team would make Murray effective, it would be us, we have this DL that would mask his biggest weakness, which is hesitance to take on blocks and the knack of completely losing sight of the play when traffic gets near him, and the DL and scheme would give him a very good chance to do what he does well, attack. The stretch runs that ate us up so badly this year will be much less of a threat with him being able to cleanly chase laterally, and having him as a standup rusher anywhere on the front is a plus for the ravens more than any defense, he’s unique in that one aspect, that he can play laterally but can also attack the pocket in passing downs from anywhere ala ZDS or McPhee.
that is the one justification I could make, that we could use him pretty well
But there are other guys who actually play that role in college.
no way we're picking murray to be anything other than ILB.