SI writer predicts one free agent to follow Kellen Moore (22 Viewers)

[Nightshade]

Mekhai Bekton

1 Eagles Free Agent Who Will Follow New Saints HC Kellen Moore To New Orleans

The news that New Orleans Saints fans had been waiting on for weeks finally broke on Tuesday. New Orleans was the final team with a head coaching vacancy this o

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[Snakehead]

Yes, please. Plug him in at RG.

 

[3ParStillDriver]

Would be a better option then spending a draft pick. Booker and Wyatt Milum are the only players in the draft I really like at G. All the other guards in the draft either struggle with run blocking or pass blocking it seems. Maybe Donovan Jackson is all around solid?

More then likely it seems our solution to our G's are going to have to come free agency. Everyone else is a project one way or another.

 

[saintmike23]

Hey he’s on my Saints Madden franchise team now

 

[whodatbe]

If it were to happen that would be a nice pickup and would effect the way we draft early by either focusing on defense or an offensive weapon.

 

[madsaint1967]

Would be a better option then spending a draft pick. Booker and Wyatt Milum are the only players in the draft I really like at G. All the other guards in the draft either struggle with run blocking or pass blocking it seems. Maybe Donovan Jackson is all around solid?

More then likely it seems our solution to our G's are going to have to come free agency. Everyone else is a project one way or another.

Don’t understand the Guard talk, there are probably a hundred Tackles that can be excellent guards in the NFL. Tackles are usually the best athletes on the offensive line and because they may have shorter arms or their 40 time is too high they aren’t getting picked to play tackle at the NFL level. The pool for Guards is astronomically larger than Tackles. Remember Carl Nicks and Jahri Evans were Tackles in College.

 

[Stalwart385]

Don’t understand the Guard talk, there are probably a hundred Tackles that can be excellent guards in the NFL. Tackles are usually the best athletes on the offensive line and because they may have shorter arms or their 40 time is too high they aren’t getting picked to play tackle at the NFL level. The pool for Guards is astronomically larger than Tackles. Remember Carl Nicks and Jahri Evans were Tackles in College.

Yeah I don't dive the deepest into draft classes but I heard this draft is full of tackles well suited to play guard.

 

[Saint Greg]

I wanted to sign him last year.

 

[3ParStillDriver]

Don’t understand the Guard talk, there are probably a hundred Tackles that can be excellent guards in the NFL. Tackles are usually the best athletes on the offensive line and because they may have shorter arms or their 40 time is too high they aren’t getting picked to play tackle at the NFL level. The pool for Guards is astronomically larger than Tackles. Remember Carl Nicks and Jahri Evans were Tackles in College.

Guard and Tackle play differently and require different skills. You do see a lot of people talk almost as if the position switch is interchangeable, but its not. As you pointed out, it always seems tackles become guards, and never the other way around. People talk like its easy, but in truth your hands and break are different. Some people, after playing years at tackle form habits and struggle to break those habits which could hamper their switch to guard. This makes coaching very important, but also the players ability to be adaptable.

The change also becomes easier if in college playing tackle if their scheme is run heavy. A run heavy tackle in college is likely to adapt to guard at the NFL level over a pass heavy tackle in college. It's akin to changing a DB from CB to FS. Not all will succeed, but a zone CB can make that change better than a man-to-man CB usually.

It's not big changes, but it comes into question on an individual level how an person's brain is capable of distinguishing the differences and similarities and can easily adapt to the changes on a natural level. A fraction of a second of hesitation off an old habit is enough to give any opponent leverage and enough to give someone like Jalen Carter a big edge over them. This is why struggling guards and tackles are your biggest false start contributors. It's an eye blink to us couch coaches, but its everything to them.

 

[Gr8Scott]

Becton seems to have figured his health out the last couple seasons. Looks like he could be a huge upgrade on the O-Line and give us some consistency in the line up.

 

[El Caliente]

I’m surprised by how young he is. It feels like he entered the league with the Jets 10 years ago, but he is only 25.

Yes, please sign him ASAP.

 

[greatshow25]

Mekhai Bekton

1 Eagles Free Agent Who Will Follow New Saints HC Kellen Moore To New Orleans

The news that New Orleans Saints fans had been waiting on for weeks finally broke on Tuesday. New Orleans was the final team with a head coaching vacancy this o

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I was hoping for him last year.

 

[TruSaint]

Move Ruiz to LG and put Bekton at RG?

 

[3ParStillDriver]

I’m surprised by how young he is. It feels like he entered the league with the Jets 10 years ago, but he is only 25.

Yes, please sign him ASAP.

Weird. I see Moore's age and it blows my mind. At his age, I was just starting to settle down and start a family and my career was just starting to really take off. There he is as a head coach in the NFL. I can't help but look in the mirror at where I went wrong. Then I remember I'm probably better off then 90% of the rest of the world and very lucky, so that makes him what? Better off then 99.999% of the rest of the world at early 30's? Crazy.

 

[2009ring]

Becton isn't leaving Philly guys, not with Stoutland there.