Rodney Coe signed to active roster

Reading up on this guy, he might be another Clinton McDonald. Great athleticism, problem with work ethic.

Cowboys and Patriots pursued him as an UDFA, he signed with Dallas.

Undrafted DT Rodney Coe Eager To Prove Cowboys' Interest Well-Founded

He tried his best not to single anyone out, but when Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones was pressed for details about his undrafted free agents, he came up with one name.

“Coe,” Jones said. “There are reasons he didn’t get drafted. But he certainly has a lot of ability, and I think a coach like Rod Marinelli will do wonders for him in terms of his up and down career.”

Jones was referring to Rodney Coe, who signed undrafted out of Akron in the hours following the NFL draft. The 6-3, 305-pound defensive tackle was a pre-draft visitor at Valley Ranch in the weeks leading up to the draft, and the Cowboys’ supportive words didn’t go unnoticed.

http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2016/ ... ll-founded


Draft Analysis

Strengths: Former running back now living in the body of a defensive tackle. Thick bubble with good, natural strength in lower half. Loose hips allow him to turn and flip over the edge of blockers.

Has traits to become a significantly better pass rusher with more work. Flashes above average quickness of snap with shots in the gaps.

Excellent change of direction talent with scary pursuit speed for a big guy. Fluid athlete with good lateral movement skills down the line. Plays nose and three­-technique.

http://www.nfl.com/draft/2016/profiles/ ... id=2556353


Played two seasons for Iowa Western, helping his team win the 2012 JUCO National Championship (12-0) with 42 tackles and 1.5 sacks that season.

Played running back as a freshman and gained 468 yards on 80 carries with nine touchdowns. Rushed for more than 2,000 yards Edwardsville High. Also played linebacker. Ranked No. 2 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in its Super 30 in 2010.

Grandfather, Charles Coe, is the offensive coordinator at Missouri Baptist and former first-round draft choice of the Detroit Tigers in 1971.

http://www.seahawks.com/team/players/roster/rodney-coe

I thought he was pretty decent in preseason. Must be working hard to earn the roster spot. Guess we waived Garrison Smith to make room.

I think this move speaks to the heavy amount of rushing teams we'll be facing over the remainder of the season. Needed more beef in the middle to add to the rotation and keep the linebackers clean so they can continue making plays.

ivotuk":2xzh8v2s said:

Former running back now living in the body of a defensive tackle. Thick bubble with good, natural strength in lower half. Loose hips allow him to turn and flip over the edge of blockers.

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Short yardage RB !? :drool:

This guy is a 1 tech, not a 280 pound McDonald that is horrible against the run.

Coe is WIDE with big trunks for legs. Generates a lot of power at the POA.

Finally we have a RB!

So he's like a bigger, faster Eddie Lacy?

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Own The West":do2e866a said:

So he's like a bigger, faster Eddie Lacy?

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This guy looks like he is playing against 14 year olds in that clip.

I was going to post something like

*snore*

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But then I remembered just how much sheer overperformance Clint Hurtt is getting out of everyone who makes it onto our DL, and I thought better.

vin.couve12":25sko3bn said:

This guy is a 1 tech, not a 280 pound McDonald that is horrible against the run.

Coe is WIDE with big trunks for legs. Generates a lot of power at the POA.

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ivotuk said:

Reading up on this guy, he might be another Clinton McDonald. Great athleticism, problem with work ethic

I could have been clearer, but I meant in the sense that he has the talent, but can't stay on a roster because of effort. Clinton talked about being cut, and sitting at home, finally realizing "I've got to do this or I'll be out of football forever."

That's when he started to excel. He always had the physical talent, just didn't have the desire.

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ivotuk":1pnsa7ru said:

vin.couve12":1pnsa7ru said:

This guy is a 1 tech, not a 280 pound McDonald that is horrible against the run.

Coe is WIDE with big trunks for legs. Generates a lot of power at the POA.

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ivotuk said:

Reading up on this guy, he might be another Clinton McDonald. Great athleticism, problem with work ethic

I could have been clearer, but I meant in the sense that he has the talent, but can't stay on a roster because of effort. Clinton talked about being cut, and sitting at home, finally realizing "I've got to do this or I'll be out of football forever."

That's when he started to excel. He always had the physical talent, just didn't have the desire.

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Well, I guess I'll clarify too then.

McDonald was an enormously overrated player. He had 2 sacks that were of his own doing that year. The others were clean up sacks or trash sacks, meaning, the ends made the QB step up in the pocket and the other DT also flushed a lane and what McDonald would do is stay blocked around the LOS and sort of got those technicality sacks where he didn't do much...except stay blocked around the LOS.

He also had 2 or 3 plays against the run where he actually shot a gap for a TFL, but was otherwise the single worst run defending DT the Seahawks have had since Pete has been here.

Good for him though. He used that opportunistic approach to getting a nice 5 mil from a terrible Bucs team that was trying for quite some time to find another DT to play next to their star DT.

Outside of that, average pass rusher and an atrocious run defender.

Own The West":gd8i8epl said:

So he's like a bigger, faster Eddie Lacy?

[youtube]Ez2Q9_qlWx8[/youtube]

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All that video shows is he'd be a great running back so long as no one touches him. I don't think anyone in the that video wanted to touch him.
:lol:

I mean, I'm actually not trying to be a jerk about McDonald or anything. I'm really not. It's just that Jordan Hill was even a slightly better player because he was a bit better against the run (not saying much), but it's just REALLY frickin odd how so many Hawks fans regard McDonald as this pass rushing DT savior. I just read an article a couple weeks ago that almost said the same thing about how we can get another McDonald.

It's just so damn odd.

Well it's not really. McDonald was associated with that season so that means inevitable golden nutsack, but again, average pass rusher and horrible, heinous run defender.

vin.couve12":1kr6jcse said:

I mean, I'm actually not trying to be a jerk about McDonald or anything. I'm really not. It's just that Jordan Hill was even a slightly better player because he was a bit better against the run (not saying much), but it's just REALLY frickin odd how so many Hawks fans regard McDonald as this pass rushing DT savior. I just read an article a couple weeks ago that almost said the same thing about how we can get another McDonald.

It's just so damn odd.

Well it's not really. McDonald was associated with that season so that means inevitable golden nutsack, but again, average pass rusher and horrible, heinous run defender.

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I'm with you on those references, based on the blinders for sack totals being all that matter. Same reason I hated all the talk referring to pre-injury Mebane; sure he wasn't a pass-rush specialist, but his non-sack pressure stats (especially considering his lack of "obvious passing down" snaps) and the tape showed he was far from a non-asset vs the pass.