Brandon Graham, Philadelphia Eagle

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I'm glad he did a nice job and all but BRANDON GRAHAM IS A PASS RUSHER AND SHOULD NOT BE COVERING TIGHT ENDS.

Ugh.

[ice grillin you]

i read that yesterday and i dont get it....cause i watched gonzalez from my seat...which is a great one to see this kind of stuff...top of the stadium in the end zone...and i didnt see a single play where graham was on him...obviously i didnt watch him on every play but it was at least 90% of them

[Tomahawk]

From my seat on the couch, I saw Graham drop into a shallow zone on at least one play. This leads me to believe you're not as good of a football analyst as you believe yourself to be.

[ice grillin you]

I saw Graham drop into a shallow zone on at least one play.

at least one?

thats crazy yo

and if you didnt see him do it on as many plays as you thought then he didnt do it at all

[shorebird]

If he's doing that then the Eagles might as well go to the 3-4 d. Cole could do it, no?

[ice grillin you]

If he's doing that then the Eagles might as well go to the 3-4 d. Cole could do it, no?

hes not "doing it"

thats the point

there are dozens of lineman who occasionally drop into coverage in the nfl....it doesnt mean brandon graham is all of a sudden a linebacker

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Did not notice him today.

[Diomedes]

I didn't notice him most of the season, especially after the first Dallas game...the guy just vanished.

Anyway.

In 12+ games:

Three sacks.  Two forced fumbles.  Under 20 tackles no matter how you define them:  The  NFL credits him with 12, the Eagles with 19.  The Eagles also report that one of his tackles was for a loss, and of all the times he didn't sack the quarterback, Graham did "hurry" him 14 times. 

So there's that.

No doubt his stat line would benefit from coaches who just let the guy be what he is--an outside pass rusher--but I'm not about to blame his underwhelming debut season on coaching, nor on injury.

Bottom line, he didn't show much. 

[Sgt PSN]

Pro Football Focus (whoever the hell they are) named Brandon Graham to their 2010 All Rookie Team

Defensive End – Brandon Graham, Philadelphia Eagles

Quite clearly wasn't ready to start in Week 1, and he was far too one-dimensional a player to play the run. Graham did improve before his season ended, and maintained his pass rush throughout to finish the year as the most productive rookie pass rusher (37 total pressures).

[smeags]

must have been a lean year on de's.

[Sgt PSN]

It's a shallow "award."  The all rookie team in the NFL is pretty much a joke outside of maybe 5 or 6 players.  In any other league, you could assemble a highly competitive team out of the best rookies but if you tried that in the NFL they'd get smoke checked every time.  Not to mention that I've never heard of PFF before which makes it even more humorous to me. 

[smeags]

is that 64's blog ?

[Sgt PSN]

I doubt it. 

[Rome]

Graham played a lot better than some of you are giving him credit for.  He was very disruptive when he was actually playing the position the way it's supposed to be played.

When McDickhead had him covering receivers or playing nose tackle he looked like shtein, obviously, but otherwise he wasn't anywhere near a total washout.

[smeags]

someone said total washout ?