4 hours ago, UncleEarl said:

 

Because you are only watching his highlights.  What about the rest of the time?  How does a guy that looks like that in highlights have such little production?  Mistakes.  Whiffed tackles.  Poor at holding the end on run plays.  All that aggressiveness can be used against a player.    I agree about his potential, but it's not a given he's going to figure it out.  Could be an all-pro, could be a big bust.  I'm rooting for him to figure it out, but it's a high risk pick. 

Hell, even his highlights are a "so what" experience.  in both of the ones I saw,   half of his "highlight" plays--he was left completely unblocked...so much for scheming against him.

another quarter of his highlights, he cleaning up on someone else's highlight play.   Only a quarter of his highlights were of him demonstrating any exceptional skill.

As in my prior post,  watching his game film is even more unimpressive.   I just don't get the excitement of this pick.

4 hours ago, BronxBengal said:

What am I missing on Stewart?  The guy can flat out play!  He is violent and plays in the defensive scheme with a team first mentality.  The more I see the highlights the more I love the pick.  Someone said he played DT most of the time but dang his disruptions are insane.  Golden coached against him and was fearful of the player.  I don’t understand the negativity.  I swear if the drafted Reggie Williams incarnate most of you would be complain about that.  I believe this guy will be a steal and love the attitude Stewart displays.  Nasty

Any scrub can look like an all pro in a highlight reel.   I watched a game, two actually, just focusing on him and came away unimpressed.  It seemed guys around him were make more plays than him.   Didn't look like he specifically schemed against, either--no double teams or traps or RB lined up on his side selectively.    Danced with blockers too much which, I understand is sometimes the scheme for a two gap coverage but then so were the other guys on line who were shedding blocks and making plays,.....  and just plain didn't finish the play that was there for the taking too often.   Maybe I just saw his two worst games.

On 4/25/2025 at 4:36 PM, BlackJesus said:

I would LOVE for him to make eat, my words, cold crow, and a huge steam pile....

on the record as not a fan of this pick, the one guy I DIDN'T want them to pick.

 

So PLEASE prove me wrong.  and if you do first time we have face to face I will admit it.

4 hours ago, alleycat said:

 

The common thread with Al Golden and the Phil Simms piece are that they would disagree with you, because they are prioritizing disruption in the same way that people who only look at stats are counting their criteria of value. Disruption IS production. This guy is very high floor, with an astronomical ceiling. The floor is high because on Day 1 he provides edge setting run D coupled with enormous penetration disruption if he lines up over/inside the tackle. The ceiling is what he put on tape at the Senior Bowl, rushing from the edge, which is something, if can truly solidify in the NFL, can make him "one of the all-time greats in the league" as Chris Simms put it. And this is why it's so important to put on the tape versus read the stat line.

 

Who were the two most productive Sackers in college football last year? Mike Green and Donovan Ezriekuau or whatever his name is. Neither of them got drafted in the first round. Obviously because they led the nation in sacks, they should be first round picks, right? How is it that the entire football genius community of Go-Bengals.com knows better than the professional scouting and coaching community of the NFL? 

 

Or maybe there's way more to this game than what people here, (who clearly don't actually watch tape), consider "production."

 

Both Al Golden and Phil Simms articulate very well, very clearly, why you should be excited by this pick. Those for whom being critical or negative or who need to say "my ignorant early take was my take so I'm right and I'm not going to change!," don't need to bother watching, because, of course they are always right. Anyone else who is open to learning something, or considering something they hadn't before, would do well to watch. 

 

Or they could just watch the tape...but clearly that's something that they've already proven incapable of doing or understanding. 

I don't watch highlights of players, I watch the game replays that show the whole body of work.   Can't remember which 2 games I watched, but I came away completely befuddled why this guy was even in the conversation for a first rd pick.   Same thing with James Pierce.   Had some splash plays, but mostly he looked quite pedestrian.

The guys lined up near him got my eye more.  Didn't appear to be schemed against either.

 

I guess I see better than I hear.

I'm not sold.   I guy who does everything except make the tackle.   Not seeing that as a real asset.

 

Cedric Ogbuehi 2.0

They like all the measurements and the unmeasureables  and the guy just didn't produce.

Same thing they said about Cedric.   "Don't let those 8 sacks his senior year fool you"....they didn't fool me he produced in the pros just like he did in college....

This entire thread is superlative effort in research.   Kudos on an outstanding service and effort on our  behalf.

 

On a side note.  Once upon a time I did my own research on KA.   It always seemed to me that the only way the Steel Curtain could assure themselves of a victory over the Bengals was to knock him out of the game.  Sometimes legitimate hits but just as often cheap ass ones.

Of the games that Anderson started and FINISHED.....  7-7   over his career.   .500 against a dynastic team seems to be another feather in the cap for admission to HOF.

He seems to have completed a nice edit job also. Great job.

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