Adam Bighill to practice squad

Yea he'll get pilfered off. Man I loved watching him play

Not a fan. Coincidentally was just watching local (NOLA) news sports segment with footage of Texans game...Bighill getting blasted by lead FB and driven about four yards out of the hole.

Yep, you can watch videos. And you can watch every play of each game, as well, and watch the guy making tackles seven yards downfield after being moved so far out of the hole. But he does make tackles...eventually.

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I was going to stay quiet on all the bighill homers but there's a distinct drop in athleticism compared to Klein/Anzalone

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Not comparing him to these guys. I'm not even saying he's starting material, but I'd take him over lots of our previous backup LBs. He might have been "tackling 4 yards in the backfield" (unconfirmed) but the bottom line is he made the tackles and didn't miss many. I also saw him sprinting to make sideline tackles. I'd take hustle over lazy talent any day

Mike Nolan gave Bighill tons of praise. I'll stick with his opinion. It's about as legitimate as it gets when it comes to the NFL linebacker position

Didn't say that at all. Zero. Zip. Nada

And obviously was on board with cutting him...I don't buy the idea that Payton would overrule Nolan on who he wanted to keep in his position group. Especially with Nolan being a former NFL head coach.

I have a cousin who's been in the coaching game locally for about 40 years, and I remember during the last years of the Dome Patrol him telling me that the difference between a 4-3 MLB and 3-4 ILBs was that a MLB could be smaller and faster because the four linemen theoretically keep the MLB clean to run sideline to sideline. Most of us know this. The ILBs, on the otherhand, have to be real run-thug thumpers because on every running play one of the two is going to have to take on a guard head up, shed him, and fill the gap. Vaughn Johnson was prototypical, but the real wonder was Mills. In all his years studying the game he couldn't remember another LB his size who could stone the lineman, shed him, and still have enough left to drill the ballcarrier.

Now, we weren't going to ask Bighill to do the things Mills did for us because they're different defenses and different positions in the defenses. But I would respectfully ask that Bighill/Mills comparisons be shelved until and if such time as Bighill shows to have any actual similarities to Mills beyond physical stature. Because the guy doesn't have ANY of Mills' abilities at this point...and he's rapidly approaching 30 years old

Really because it sure in the hell sounded like your comment did? Mills didn't have to anticipate shite because as the other poster pointed out he was strong enough even at that size to physically take on an OLineman and stonewall his arse. That's exactly what the hell I was talking about, I just didn't wanna have to spell it out, but I forget where I'm at, I should have.