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Eric Henderson is the new Defensive Line Coach and Tanzel Smart took to the new Coach and improved in many areas, wheras JFM did not and did not look good in preseason and must have been the same in training camp. The return of Morgan Fox also played into the equation. Coach Henny is an upgrade IMO over Bill Johnson from the first two years, so I trust the evaluation process as I felt Smart would be the one cut, but he outplayed Franklin-Myers and is more versatile as he can play some NT at times too.
Your take makes a ton of sense to me, den.
It was a combination of a lot of factors.
I’ll say this. JFM is now exhibit A for the importance of all players going all out at all times. The talent level on this roster and these coaches demand it. Fox and Smart simply earned their spots this offseason. For this year...
I don't agree with this.
JFM gained weight to play straight-up 3/4 DE and he was no longer as effective with added weight.
I don't think it had anything to do with whether the guy was "motivated." In fact none of us knows anything about that.
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