http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/06/packers-activate-mike-neal-cut-phillip-merling/
I keep forgetting to add him to that dreadful list of 2nd round picks. Thought he might catch on in Green Bay. Should've known better.
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He has made one play, and one play only in his career with the Dolphins.
Yeah, it was a meaningful play but still...one play.
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Whoever made it, it was a bad pick..Stay away from college seniors who are projected high draft picks who have soft bodies..Means even though they knew they were going to be taken high, they still are lazy or stupid, or both, about the most important part of their craft..This is a new era of the game, a scientific one to get the machine to function at its highest level, don't have time anymore for athletes who don't get it.
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Merling could have done more if they had trained him to get to true LB shape and weight and played him a a SOLB.
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update: signed by jets.....
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There's a risk to bulking up a regular defensive end, but consider that some of the rewards are guys like Calais Campbell and Justin Smith. I think it's hard to blame the weight when a guy like Matt Roth drops weight and moves outwards and is a good player while Merling hasn't got a sniff
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Yeah but he was a Parcells pick :whistling:
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I remember talking to a friend of mine who was a former college player and avid die hard college football fan. Basically any team in the south is his favorite team so he knew quite a bit about Merling. Said Merling had all the abilities to become a great defensive end and I remember really getting hyped up about us having him because my friend never missed on players. Point is I had high hopes for Merling.
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Merling seemed like a headcase tbh.
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Winning the division, knocking the Jets out of the playoffs and watching Farve fail all at the same time - Pricelessmiamiron likes this. -
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The coaching of Merling wasn't the problem. The problem was Merling himself and he should have been out of the league a long time ago. -
Merling is one of the reasons I keep suspecting that PFF's graders have some partiality toward Miami. Here he is,essentially his second chance just taken out from under him, possibly forced out of the league, yet if you add up his PFF ratings for non rookie years in Miami, he was at a +0.4, which means he was an above average draft pick for around that area. Yet anyone watching him play football knows he's not doing his job very well and the only reason he keeps getting chances is athletic ability for his size. Baffling.