What's the deal with Thornton?

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Is he hurt, or did he just get beat out by McClain? If it is the latter, then that is a pretty huge mistake, considering he's making 9 million guaranteed on the contract he just signed.

He looks like Nick Haden.

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It's a bit premature to write him off but yeah............... not good. I thought he'd be an immediate impact player at the 1 Tech.

Maybe he just looked good because he played next to Fletcher Cox and Bennie Logan.
 
You can do the what's the deal thing with most of our roster last week.

Let's just try to forget about it and move on to Washington. It's hard to I know. So disapointing.
 
Oh my lord. That's it. Never again will I spend much time on here after a loss. So far we need to get rid of Dez, Tyron, Collins, Fred, Martin, Zeke is a bust, Witten needs to announce his retirement before game 2, Dak is not even back up worthy, T Crawford and Thornton need to go because one will never create pressure again and the other won't see the field again, Sean Lee and Scandrick now suck, and Byron Jones is a bust as well. What else have I missed?
 
McClain was actually one of the better players on either defense on Sunday.

So having him win the job isn't some terrible indictment.

I'd like to see more out of Thornton.

I thought we got him on a reasonable contract, but he hasn't had much impact.

Again, it makes me question the validity of playing the run on the way to the QB.
 
Thornton was the 2nd best DT on our team last week. He wasn't bad at all and I think he will get better as he gets more comfortable.
 
RandyOh said:
Oh my lord. That's it. Never again will I spend much time on here after a loss. So far we need to get rid of Dez, Tyron, Collins, Fred, Martin, Zeke is a bust, Witten needs to announce his retirement before game 2, Dak is not even back up worthy, T Crawford and Thornton need to go because one will never create pressure again and the other won't see the field again, Sean Lee and Scandrick now suck, and Byron Jones is a bust as well. What else have I missed?
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You gonna leave Garrett hangin'? ;)
 
RandyOh said:
Oh my lord. That's it. Never again will I spend much time on here after a loss. So far we need to get rid of Dez, Tyron, Collins, Fred, Martin, Zeke is a bust, Witten needs to announce his retirement before game 2, Dak is not even back up worthy, T Crawford and Thornton need to go because one will never create pressure again and the other won't see the field again, Sean Lee and Scandrick now suck, and Byron Jones is a bust as well. What else have I missed?
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Williams
 
CyberB0b said:
Is he hurt, or did he just get beat out by McClain? If it is the latter, then that is a pretty huge mistake, considering he's making 9 million guaranteed on the contract he just signed.

He looks like Nick Haden.

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Thorton is 92. in the 2nd pic he held a double team which is what he was supposed to do but the LB 56 was easily blocked out of the play. In the first pic he came off his block but his own teammate 96 was blocked into him.
 
187beatdown said:
This is a one game sample size where everyone played bad. Its statistically irrelevant to draw conclusions from it
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Well in fairness, he actually looked inept in the preseason as well.

He was supposed to be an immediate impact player at the 1 tech. Thus far in practice, preseason and one game, he's looked not so good.

Too soon to close the book on him, but thus far, it's been disappointing from him.
 
RandyOh said:
Oh my lord. That's it. Never again will I spend much time on here after a loss. So far we need to get rid of Dez, Tyron, Collins, Fred, Martin, Zeke is a bust, Witten needs to announce his retirement before game 2, Dak is not even back up worthy, T Crawford and Thornton need to go because one will never create pressure again and the other won't see the field again, Sean Lee and Scandrick now suck, and Byron Jones is a bust as well. What else have I missed?
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It's not much better after a win if we don't score on every possession and get multiple turnovers.
 
187beatdown said:
This is a one game sample size where everyone played bad. Its statistically irrelevant to draw conclusions from it
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The one game of production, sure. But the fact that he's not starting is clearly a statement on him as a player. We signed him to start, paid him starter money, and avoided 1T in a very 1T heavy draft because of him. It's absolutely a red flag that he's not starting.
 
Reading between the lines, he's struggling with the one-gap transition. Plus, the team has always really liked McClain, they couldn't get him on the field.

That said, the performance of the DTs was one of the most perplexing and concerning things from Sunday's game. That wasn't even a very good interior OL or running game they were going against and they were getting linemen on our LBs. Not good.
 
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