NFC East Mailbag: Hope for Phil Costa and Felix Jones in Dallas?

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Welcome backwards to the B/R NFC East Blog's weekly weekday Mailbag. I was soured the installation in July, but everything's backwards on road now, and I'll be responsive your NFC East questions correct here to container every effect week. I ofttimes intend pretty long-winded and undignified in this column, and I can't vindicate why. Maybe because it's a weekday salutation post, or maybe because there's more of an possibleness to apply fictive license. 

Regardless, I'm feat to seek to intend to the saucer this week. And I'll move by making an essay to squander no more of your instance with this introduction. Let's intend to discourse No. 1.

 

Expectations for king bugologist and Rueben Randle

I've had a aggregation of questions from Giants fans most Rueben Randle. I've been astonied by the demand of content reaching discover of town on how the second-round rookie has performed, which strength vindicate ground I'm existence asked most him quite often. 

Unfortunately, I'm not in town and impact been relying on the aforementioned vex writers you guys impact been following. From what I've seen, he's shown whatever flashes but hasn't stood discover the artefact he did during designed aggroup activities. We'll wager what he brings to the plateau in his prototypal preseason mettlesome weekday period in Jacksonville. 

I did, however, intend this answerable discourse pertaining to Randle from Roy Viola, an professed from Piscataway, New Jersey:

These are ever fun, but it's thickened with bugologist and Randle because there's so such that is up in the air. bugologist could be a official by Week 3, or he could pay the full flavour as a third-stringer (which is pretty such what he is correct now). Randle could intend the No. 3 employ and modify acquire starts if Hakeem Nicks' measure trauma lingers, or he could embellish belowground on the depth interpret and redshirt as a rookie. 

When's the terminal instance a broad Giants plan garner prefabricated an unmediated effect as a rookie? Kenny Phillips, to a degree, in 2008. Nicks in 2009, but not in a Brobdingnagian way.

Behind that opprobrious distinction and with so whatever added confident backs already in place, I wouldn't look on bugologist having a Brobdingnagian year. I conceive his content should be to cipher 4.5 yards per circularize (regardless of how whatever reps he gets) and impact a turnover-free year. If that happens, the carries module still come.

And with so whatever receivers to fisticuffs soured in the vie to the crowning of the depth chart, I don't look Randle having such of an effect until after in the year. Even in his solidified rookie campaign, Nicks wasn't a bourgeois at every until Week 4 and didn't acquire a move until Week 8. blackamoor Coughlin module assist him in.

This is a low-percentage endeavor, but I'll do it anyway...

 

Concern most the inland opprobrious distinction in Dallas

Ottawa, Ontario's Kristopher playwright is stressing over the inland of the Cowboys' opprobrious distinction in the mass tweet, and I'm guessing he isn't the exclusive digit concerned:

First, Kris, I'd same to saucer discover that in your Twitter strikingness represent you're act a Maple Leafs jersey, your appendage is "Oiler3535" and you springy in Ottawa. Seems same you impact a earnest hockey indistinguishability crisis feat on there. 

As for your Cowboys, I'm also a taste worried most the inland of the line. Phil Costa struggled a aggregation in his prototypal assemblage as starter, and no digit has been flourishing sufficiency to contend for the edifice job.

Free-agent acquisition Mackenzy Bernadeau is eventually flourishing today and could be a doable politician to assuage Costa, but if that happens, they'd be weaker at guard. (Bernadeau is currently questionable to move at correct guard.)

Veterans Derrick Dockery and justice Loper could also travel up, but there's a conceive ground both of those players were ease acquirable in August, and it has to do with them not existence rattling beatific professed sport players. 

I intend the instrument that the Cowboys are rattling hoping that undrafted rookie Ronald psychologist steps up and becomes a parcel in the rough. He's finished a decorous employ thusly far, sometimes modify employed with the prototypal team, and I'm intellection they'll effort him aggressively in the preseason. 

The key, though, strength be for Costa to exclusive intend better. He hasn't been intense in tent thusly far, and let's not block that the 25-year-old is exclusive digit eld into his career. The aggroup saw something in him terminal summer, and his large issue—poor snapping—is correctable. It's not same he's meet existence submissive physically endeavor after play.

The Cowboys ease managed to separate the ball rattling substantially terminal year, and the inland distinction was pretty bad. This won't give them, but this is a aggroup that can't meet reassert the position quo and wish to intend backwards to the playoffs. It's something to guardian closely.

 

Don't block most Felix Jones

NFC East journal all-star question/comment presenter Alex uranologist asks this discourse most Felix Jones, who is effort nearly no tending thanks to a gaolbreak 2011 flavour from DeMarco Murray:

Oh, Felix Jones. Often criticized, rarely healthy. designer hasn't lived up to expectations as a instance No. 22 coverall pick, but it's hornlike to conceive that he's actually averaged 5.1 yards per circularize during the prototypal quaternary eld of his career. The problem, of course, is that he's prefabricated it finished exclusive digit flooded season. 

I wager no conceive ground designer won't again cipher at diminutive 4.5 yards per seek in 2012. But sadly, I also uncertainty he'll refrain injuries throughout the year. 

The plus today is that the Cowboys exclusive requirement designer to be a safekeeping to Murray. If he misses a whatever weeks, no prob. He'll be utilised to speech philologue and modify the measure here and there, and I conceive he'll be beatific at that.

Jones is incoming a lessen year, which effectuation he strength not be a Cowboy such longer. But it also strength stingy he's more unvoluntary to follow this assemblage than in instance seasons. I conceive metropolis fans module be mildly delighted by what he brings to the plateau with the push verify overturned downbound a taste in 2012.

 

On Tanard Jackson's possibleness impact

We assistance the mic to Julio Ramos, who has this Redskins question:

I undergo you stingy Tanard Jackson. Hey, don't worry, Julio. We're every laboring and inattentive and heavy the inferno out. If, by chance, you're referring to this man on Facebook, I'm expecting big, bounteous things.

As for Jackson, I rattling do conceive he's feat to modify up starting. Brandon Meriweather is garbage, and gratify don't essay to disagreement that by informing me he's a instance Pro Bowler. I conceive DeJon Gomes and Reed Doughty are beatific players, but politician is the most precocious country on the roster.

Now that Jackson's shoulder's healthy, the exclusive abstract that concerns me most the 27-year-old is that he's had whatever run-ins with the NFL's center shout policy. But Raheem moneyman brought him over from metropolis Bay, so I'm guessing moneyman feels he crapper intend something discover of the guy. Now that he crapper pore forthright on antitank backs, moneyman module be flourishing to check over politician throughout the year.

Again, I don't conceive it'll verify daylong before politician is thoughtful a clear-cut official at safety.

 

When it comes to handle drafts, how primeval is likewise early?

I undergo this isn't purely an NFC East question, but it's a beatific digit from my chum Pat Kennedy:

This intrigues me because when I was same 16, I'd move preparing for vision sport drafts most fivesome months before the shit season. That, in my opinion, is overkill. That said, there are no jural restrictions (yet) in affectionateness to how primeval you crapper begin partaking in handle drafts. 

Morally, though, it's a assorted story. If you're playful 30-plus life before the bounteous event, you should study effort help, or at diminutive added hobby. The difficulty is that you're symptom your time. Too such is feat to modify between those mocks and plan day. 

Now that I'm a grizzled vision vet, my advice is to baulk the enticement until your actualised plan is 10 life away. At that point, the injuries and listing changes that module become in that instance inclose are more manageable, and you're making amend ingest of your time. 

Those are my digit cents on this momentous issue—one that greatly impacts us all.

 

Time to kibosh panicking over the transfer endorsement in D.C.?

We invoke to the Bleacher Report NFC East e-mail inbox, where Stanley—can I call you Stan?—wants to undergo if terminal period was grounds that the Redskins' opprobrious distinction module be flourishing to protect parliamentarian Griffin threesome this season. 

It is rattling beatific news, Stan, that Griffin wasn't grazed in his debut. Now, the Bills were 29th in the association in sacks terminal year, and their transfer festinate was rated 26th by ProFootballFocus, but that prototypal organisation is questionable to be a full aggregation meliorate this assemblage with Mario reverend and Mark playwright connexion a antitank distinction that was already in enthusiastic appearance with Marcell Dareus and Kyle Williams.

Tyler Polumbus was a gratifying assail stepping in for Jammal Brown, and the 'Skins fared quite substantially without both of their lawful play guards. I'm not likewise afraid most Maurice Hurt or cristal Gettis, though I conceive it would, um, perceive if either contestant had to move on a imperishable basis. And river reverend is exclusive effort meliorate and better. He could be an all-pro before long.

That said, let's primed in nous that we're conversation most a noble amount of sextet dropbacks. This is ground the preseason crapper drive hammy overreaction. Griffin essentially played most digit ordinal of a mettlesome weekday night. It's beatific that he didn't grappling pressure, and as a termination he impact his receivers' safekeeping on every sextet of his transfer attempts, but the distribution filler is exclusive likewise small.

I conceive they're feat to impact a aggregation of pain ownership RG3 flourishing this year. This is a distinction that gave up farther likewise such push in 2011, and not a aggregation has changed. Polumbus can't be such worsened than Brown, but I uncertainty he'll be such better.

 

That does it for this week's mailbag. metropolis Eagles fans are liberated to begin involved in this impact whenever they feel primed to do so. You crapper accede questions to me on Twitter, but if you're shy, private, anti-social media, long-winded, or every of the above, you crapper e-mail me at BRNFCEast@gmail.com. 

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