The Great Amobi Debate

I think he hasnt lived up to the requirement of the 10th pick in the draft yet, but I also believe its too soon to write him off. He’s not exactly bad, so with a little help next to him maybe he could become good. He def. needs to start showing something more though.

i think that in time he will develop, we just need someone on the inside next to him to help him up the middle, its tough when you have 5 guys focused on two players 80% of the time (Okoye and Williams) i mean Smith helped a lot, but he isn’t enough to really get our line over that edge, imo.

but he’s also not a bust. He’s a ridiculous 22 years old. There’s plenty of time for Amobi to shed that bust label. Last season, I distinctly remember cheering Amobi at least once or twice a game for a tackle or doing something. That’s better than he has been so far.

I think, as was said on Mocking the Draft, that Amobi’s been miscast as a run-stuffer. There’s a reason why everyone wants Dan Williams, Terrence Cody, Cam Thomas, Torrell Troup, Jay Ross, or Linval Joseph so Okoye can get back to shooting the gaps.

Looking at his size and what he’s shown, there’s no reason why he can’t be Kevin Williams, Jr if we get him a planetoid and let him go one on one with an OG.

I think even his ardent supporters would say he’s been a bust so far, and his biggest detractors would admit he’s still really young and there is a chance he busts out.

Like I said way back in the DL piece, I’d like to see a better player on the line by him and I’d also like to see him rotated a little more because I personally feel like he wears down quickly. It’s really hard for me to take his production and excuse it under the subheading of “he’s young!” though. Even if we do fix up everyone around him, I don’t think he’ll ever be the kind of DT we drafted him to be. I think his upside is “good” and we’re more likely to see him be “solid” or “average”. Not Travis Johnson bad, but maybe someone more along the lines of Rocky Bernard.

I never liked the pick. I was going for Landry or Levi Brown. But I never hated the pick either.

He hasn’t played up to his potential. Im willing to give him a couple more years with talent being around him. D-Will for example.

Sure adding someone like Dan Williams would possibly let Okoye flourish. Maybe he would perform the same regardless? Who knows.

Another side of me says we’ve put enough investment into the DL and need to invest more into the OL. I would hate to see Schaub take so many damn hits again, and Dan-O starting.

I’m with Loftin on Revis. But oh well.

Personally, I’m tired of waiting on Amobi. He was drafted tenth overall, and young’n or not, we haven’t sniffed anything approaching an impact since the first month of his rookie season.

At what point does age stop being part of the discussion? Next year? Year after that? Year after that? Before we know it, Amobi will be seven years into his career, yet there’ll still be people saying, “He’s only 26! Give him time to develop!”

I honestly don’t feel very strongly about Amobi anymore. I agree with those that want to see him next to a bigger DT and rotated more often. Either way I think he should and will get one more year to show he is not a wasted pick.

That’s a horrible comparison. Even if Amobi isn’t putting up the sack numbers we might like, he’s still better than TJ by any possible comparison.

I think Okoye’s biggest problem is that he had Richard Smith as a defensive co-ordinator his first two years. I don’t think it’s a surprise that his best month was his first month in the league. He was still using his natural instincts right out of college, and then Richard Smith taught him how to suck. So at the ages of 19 & 20, he had to forget what was great about his game and start that “read and react” bullshit. I still want to see him with at least one more year under Bush, and maybe he’ll even have a fierce new NT next to him this year.