AJ Epenesa NOT going to the Browns : Deal cancelled after concerns with physical

[Royale with Cheese]

Very strange to me he didn't make more of a difference when he had one of the quickest get off's.  

[SoCal Deek]

What’s odd about it to me is that it seems he’d be the poster child for the body type, mindset, and skillset that would translate well to the upcoming change in coach and defensive alignment. I mean, he certainly wasn’t thriving under the old regime. 

[MJS]

1 hour ago, DrBob806 said:

Lol, the Browns unis are classics. 

 

Their owner is the worst.

Yeah, classically terrible.

[DapperCam]

Feel kinda bad for Epenesa, because he had the build to be a good 3-4 DE coming out of college, but then the Bills made him lose a bunch of weight to play 4-3 DE. Feels like that interrupted his development somewhat.

[TD716]

1 hour ago, SoCal Deek said:

What’s odd about it to me is that it seems he’d be the poster child for the body type, mindset, and skillset that would translate well to the upcoming change in coach and defensive alignment. I mean, he certainly wasn’t thriving under the old regime. 

He can’t set the edge

[Captain Hindsight]

He was super athletic and had some great plays, including a few interceptions. Great at batting down the ball too.  I have no issue moving on, but his time here wasn’t all bad 

[PetermansRedemption]

For 5 per, I wouldn’t have minded seeing him back. Also won’t lose any sleep over moving on from him. 

[Ballhawk]

I guess we can say goodbye to one tipped ball to himself a season!

[That's No Moon]

18 minutes ago, DapperCam said:

Feel kinda bad for Epenesa, because he had the build to be a good 3-4 DE coming out of college, but then the Bills made him lose a bunch of weight to play 4-3 DE. Feels like that interrupted his development somewhat.

He's a classic case of trying to force a square peg into a round hole.

[Captain Hindsight]

1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:

Very strange to me he didn't make more of a difference when he had one of the quickest get off's.  

Maybe he should go do art with Aaron Maybin

[RyanC883]

Will be interesting to see him playing opposite a stud in Garrett.  

[26TrapDraw]

15 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:

Can't say I'm bothered by this in the slightest. He'd have a good game and then disappear for weeks at a time. 

And this is why we don’t need him here. If Beanbag didn’t pay Rousseau that much he’s the same. Disappears for weeks. Here’s Hoping Leonhard can get Rousseau going

[Slippery Rubber Mats]

43 minutes ago, DapperCam said:

Feel kinda bad for Epenesa, because he had the build to be a good 3-4 DE coming out of college, but then the Bills made him lose a bunch of weight to play 4-3 DE. Feels like that interrupted his development somewhat.

 

He had PLENTY of time to put it together. He is what he is: a totally average DE with a few above average traits, mainly his length and ability to bat down passes

[Sweats]

meh........can't say i'm really going to lose any sleep over this

[4BillsintheBurgh]

I think we're going to need a DL who can beat people 1v1. I don't think Epenesa was good at that, hence so many "I'm not going to get there anyway, let me try and knock the ball down" type plays. I think Heocht, chubb, oliver, walker and maybe Rousseau can be those guys. Jury's out on the rest for me.

[Chuck Schick]

1 hour ago, Captain Hindsight said:

He was super athletic and had some great plays, including a few interceptions. Great at batting down the ball too.  I have no issue moving on, but his time here wasn’t all bad 

Maybe nitpicking, but for what seemed like an athletic guy (for that size) his footwork was very robotic.  As if he had cinder blocks for feet. Once he got going in one direction, that was going to be it. 

[Success]

His biggest plays for us were batted passes - but he was pretty exceptional at that, and some of those were game changers.  Not a huge loss overall, though.  Best of luck to him.

 

[billsfan89]

2 hours ago, DapperCam said:

Feel kinda bad for Epenesa, because he had the build to be a good 3-4 DE coming out of college, but then the Bills made him lose a bunch of weight to play 4-3 DE. Feels like that interrupted his development somewhat.

His first two years in the league he was a non-factor for the Bills because of the massive body change. Year 3 he started to show some flashes before he had a solid year 4. He came back off his rookie deal on a two year deal and he stayed a very good 3rd DE for those two seasons. 
 

But I feel like bagging his first two seasons on a massive body change was not good for his career as he never developed into anything special despite the time and patience from both sides.

[Jimmy Harris 69]

Now that AJ doesn’t have to stand around and do McDermott long division, he will probably get 12 sacks. 

[IYKYK]

17 hours ago, Don Otreply said:

That’s would be the McDermott fog, it it was like the cloud that hung over pig pen in the Charley brown comics, it hung over our defensive line for years, 

Come on, you can’t blame everything on McDermott and give Beane, Brady a pass. Revisionist history is awesome!!!

2 hours ago, 26TrapDraw said:

And this is why we don’t need him here. If Beanbag didn’t pay Rousseau that much he’s the same. Disappears for weeks. Here’s Hoping Leonhard can get Rousseau going

You can say the same thing about Oliver. Sometimes I forget he was even playing.