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Romanowski made an interesting comment regarding the speed or lack of regarding Terrell Suggs. Romo's comments came on the heels of Mark Schereths tirade about how useless 40 times were and how the only guy running a 40 on the field is a guy lining up for a field goal. Romo countered what Schereth said and while he agreed that 40 times were overrated, he brought up that not only were Terrell Suggs 40 times slow, but the most alarming thing were how slow his first 10 and 15 yard times were as well.

Romo said that it wasn't a coincidence that Terrell Suggs ran well when he weighed 240 pounds and couldn't run well at 257 pounds which still is small for a defensive end. He said the best thing happened to Terrell Suggs that he was drafted by a team that will experiment and use his as a 3-4 linebacker. His playing weight should be 240-245 and that is a problem when you are playing a full time d-end position in a 4-3 defense and regularly going against 340 lb., quick offensive tackles.

Jon Jansen also chimed in that he noticed quite a few things about Suggs that worked at the college level but would not work at the NFL level.

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I thought Romo's comment about refusing to learn or use a rookies actual names until they have accomplished something on the field to be pretty funny.

I know a lot of people dont like Romonowski, but I personally love his "enthusiasm" for the game.

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Krangthebrain

Jansen also said something that Russ Smith had questioned. Jansen said that Suggs got a lot of sacks against subpar offensive tackles and that his numbers are inflated.

Overall Jansen didn't sound too impressed.

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On life after football: "I wouldn't mind being a sports commentator. Having my own segment, working for ESPN, my own talk show. Part time trainer. Part time car mechanic. Part time Sprint cell phone salesman. Part time car washman. Grocery store baggage man. Football coach. Model. Actress. Stripper. And I even have dreams of being the next crocodile hunter." - Darnell Dockett

conraddobler

Truthfully I don't know a bunch about Suggs but if you just compare him and Pace physically Pace is much more suited to play end than Suggs in a 4-3.

Baltimore has him pegged correctly. But we don't have the same scheme and so he isn't worth a lot to us.

Justin Smith out of Missouri I am familiar with and he is much much better than Suggs as an NFL player in the 4-3 he went as a 4 or so I think I don't remember but Suggs is lucky Baltimore came along or he would have been falling like a rock.

Yet Suggs has more sacks than Smith did... so college production only goes so far.

I like the guy Pace he was a reach but that dosen't always work out bad we shall see.

Russ Smith

When I heard him say that I wanted to call in and demand royalties (-:

The one thing I'll say in defense of Suggs is his numbers were still head and shoulders above everyone else in the Pac 10. The problem is everyone else in the Pac 10 fell too, Long, Banta-Cain etc. So basically nobody thought much of the conference in rushing the passer.

The 49ers took Kwame Harris 27th, they're having to defend THAT pick(for a guy rated top 15) because several NFL teams compare Harris to Robert Smith. One scout said "he's got similar talent to Ogden but you don't have to worry that Ogden will come to camp one year and announce he wants to be a doctor, that's the problem with Harris. Ogden has no interests outside of footbal the way Harris does." It was worded oddly but his point was that Harris doesn't seem as committed to football as most high picks, he's talented but he appears to be such a "diverse" kid that he may not be able to simply devote his life to football for the next 10 years, and that's why he slipped.

There was a comment in one of the papers about it not boding well that the 49ers first pick, Harris, was shown getting flattened and dragged around by Terrell Suggs, a "man thought to lack the size and strength needed to play DE every down in the NFL." THe 49ers say they intend to move him to LT and he'll sit behind Deese this year, he says he wants to start, but if he didn't say that it would just confirm the fears about his lack of killer instinct.

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Krangthebrain

That's funny. Harris completely dominated Suggs. Suggs had zero tackles and zero sacks. He also pancaked Suggs at least 5 or six times if not more.

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NCOIC of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course in a welcome speech to new SF candidates

On life after football: "I wouldn't mind being a sports commentator. Having my own segment, working for ESPN, my own talk show. Part time trainer. Part time car mechanic. Part time Sprint cell phone salesman. Part time car washman. Grocery store baggage man. Football coach. Model. Actress. Stripper. And I even have dreams of being the next crocodile hunter." - Darnell Dockett