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UNDRAFTED FREE AGENTS:

OL Hercules Satele, Hawaii'
DL Keilen Dykes, West Virginia
T Thaddeus Coleman, Mississippi Valley State
QB Anthony Morelli, Penn State
DL Bryan Robinson, Wesley College
OG Carlton Medder, Florida
FB Dionte Johnson, Ohio State
S Dennis Keyes, U.C.L.A.
 

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NFC West
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UNDRAFTED FREE AGENTS:

OL Hercules Satele, Hawaii'
DL Keilen Dykes, West Virginia
T Thaddeus Coleman, Mississippi Valley State
QB Anthony Morelli, Penn State
DL Bryan Robinson, Wesley College
OG Carlton Medder, Florida
FB Dionte Johnson, Ohio State
S Dennis Keyes, U.C.L.A.

Keyes was co-MVP and leading tackler for Bruins...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bruin/2007/12/team-awards-dis.html

From UCLA Sports Information:
Free safety Dennis Keyes and wide receiver Brandon Breazell were selected winners of UCLA’s Henry R. "Red" Sanders Award for Most Valuable Player at the annual UCLA Football Awards Banquet, held Wednesday evening at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Keyes is the Bruins’ leading tackler. Through 12 games, he has made 106 tackles, the highest total by a Bruin since Spencer Havner made 125 in 2004. Keyes also ranks fourth in the Pac-10 with his average of 8.83 tackles per game.

Keyes interview..

http://michaeleaves.blogspot.com/2007/09/conversation-with-ucla-safety-dennis.html

What’s in your class schedule?

I’m just finishing up my final courses. I have this Latin American seminar to finish my history major.

With a history major, I guess you can always be a teacher if football doesn’t work out.

That’s what I planned on—work on football and when that’s over and done with I will go and teach on the high school level.

What’s in your wildest dreams?

My wildest dream is to be able to fly.

Literally?

Yeah, like Superman. Just thinking back as a kid, that was in my dreams mostly every night. I think flying would be fun. Just go out there and be free in the sky.

Anyone who’s seen you on the football field knows that you fly around pretty well from your free safety position. So maybe there is still some flying in your future.

I hope so. I’ve been trying!
 
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According to draftdaddy.com -

OL Hercules Satele, Hawaii'
DL Keilen Dykes, West Virginia
T Thaddeus Coleman, Mississippi Valley State
QB Anthony Morelli, Penn State
DL Bryan Robinson, Wesley College
OG Carlton Medder, Florida
FB Dionte Johnson, Ohio State
S Dennis Keyes, U.C.L.A.
LB Ali Highsmith, LSU

That is 10 guys and we only have room to add one more and we will be at our limit of 80 players.

It better be a punter or a kicker.

Edit - They had Colement on that list twice so that is 9 players with room for 2 more actually.
 
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According to the main Card site:

UNDRAFTED FREE AGENTS:

LB Ali Highsmith LSU
OL Hercules Satele, Hawaii'
DL Keilen Dykes, West Virginia
T Thaddeus Coleman, Mississippi Valley State
QB Anthony Morelli, Penn State
DL Bryan Robinson, Wesley College
OG Carlton Medder, Florida
FB Dionte Johnson, Ohio State
S Dennis Keyes, U.C.L.A.
CB Marcus Brown VMI
 

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other guys i'd like to see brought in are Vince Redd, DJ Hall, Adarius Bowman, and Johnathon Hefney.
 
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Enough has already been said about Morelli, but I might as well throw in my two cents...

As I see it, Morelli is a strong armed QB who was brought in to throw during the off-season and training camp. Nothing more, he will be cut before the season begins. The kid looks enticing, he has got all the physical aspects you would look for, and then he steps on the field and does nothing but disappoint...
 

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I've also seen Morelli play and I don't think he'll beat out St Pierre

1. Pierre is already fimaliar with Whis
2. Pierre already knows the offense so that will help ML and KW.
3. It would mess up the Saint and Pope connection :D


1. St. Pierre played for Whis one season three years ago. Whis has cut him twice. I'm not sure how far that goes.
2. St. Pierre "knows" the offense less well than Matt Leinart or Kurt Warner, because Warner and Kurt have been playing in Whis's offense for far longer than St. Pierre has. St. Pierre has also been exposed to at least two other systems from his time in Baltimore two years ago and his time last season in Pittsburgh. Also, knowing Whis's offense wasn't exactly a big help to Shane Boyd, was it?
3. Like the St. Pierre to Pope connection. Hope we see it at least a couple times in the preseason. :D

St. Pierre is a zero. Maybe less than zero. If he had anything at the NFL level, some team would be interested in keeping him, but that hasn't been the case.

I liked Morelli's measureables and arm, even if people had a lot of bad things to say about him. It doesn't seem like Whis's offense requires the quarterback to do a lot of thinking or diagnosing. That's one reason why Roethlisberger was so successful so early in it--the reads were already there.

The battle for the 3rd QB spot (if it's left open) is probably the least intriguing or interesting in all of sports. I can't wait to hear people obsessively compare and contrast each player's 3-7, 58 yds, 1 INT days this August. :thumbup:
 

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My 2 cents on Morelli....

I live in Harrisburg, PACardsfan is in York, his son, MDCardsfan is south of Baltimore...... We all are in complete agreement. He will not even be a viable practice squad guy. His tools are sooooo rusty, he will need years of individual work.

Send him to Canada and Europe.

I must have 20 friends of mine up here who make the pilgrimage to Beaver Stadium every gameday since the dawn of time. They all think he was completely washed clean of any skills he may have had coming out of High School.

Paterno's son (Jay I think?) might be the worst position coach in Division 1A football.
 

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My 2 cents on Morelli....

I live in Harrisburg, PACardsfan is in York, his son, MDCardsfan is south of Baltimore...... We all are in complete agreement. He will not even be a viable practice squad guy. His tools are sooooo rusty, he will need years of individual work.

Send him to Canada and Europe.

I must have 20 friends of mine up here who make the pilgrimage to Beaver Stadium every gameday since the dawn of time. They all think he was completely washed clean of any skills he may have had coming out of High School.

Paterno's son (Jay I think?) might be the worst position coach in Division 1A football.

There's no more American style football in Europe, and if you can't make a practice squad, there's no point in going to Canada.
 

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There's no more American style football in Europe, and if you can't make a practice squad, there's no point in going to Canada.
Arena League???

Otherwise he's got a job at the steel mill.
 

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Hercules Satele

SI Grade 3.23

GRADING SYSTEM

Position:
G Class:
Sr School:
Hawaii Conference:
WAC Ht., Wt.:
6-1.5, 305 40 Time:
5.32

BIOGRAPHY: Two-year starter awarded All-Conference honors as a senior. Brother Samson Satele was drafted in 2007 by the Miami Dolphins.

POSITIVES: Technically sound blocker who's at his best in a small area. Plays with good pad level, strong at the point, and controls opponents once engaged in a block. Keeps his feet moving, fights with his hands, and plays heads-up football. Works well with teammates and shows a good degree of nastiness to his game.

NEGATIVES: Struggles to adjust, lacks lateral range, and not effective in motion. Overextends and lunges into blocks.

ANALYSIS: Satele is a hard-working lineman who's as tough as nails and is a respected leader on the field. He comes with a good degree of upside and could develop into a starter for a power-running offense.

PROJECTION: Undrafted Free Agent


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From a PA newspaper...

Cardinals to begin the Morelli experiment
04/30/2008

There’s not much left to say about the wildly inconsistent, largely disappointing career of Anthony Morelli other than that it was wildly inconsistent and largely disappointing.

That’s what made him such an interesting figure over the past weekend. Fellow Penn State seniors like Dan Connor and Justin King waited for a phone call during the draft. Morelli waited for one afterward.

He got one and, shortly after Mr. Irrelevant’s name was called, the wildly inconsistent, largely disappointing quarterback signed a free-agent contract with the Arizona Cardinals because he’s also something else: freakishly gifted.

In today’s NFL, that’s what it takes to get a job, and Morelli got one fairly easily, thank you very much.

Now, the experiment begins.

The Anthony Morelli who couldn’t get Penn State over the 9-4 hump, who played point man on an offense that stalled regularly at key times and looked too meek too often against the upper-echelon teams in the Big Ten is the same Anthony Morelli who also has a cadre of impressive weapons that had NFL scouts intrigued.

Strong throwing arm. Stature in the pocket. Ideal size. He has it all.

No question, the Cardinals will try to pitch Morelli to their fans as the quarterback with the arm, the stature and the size who can be built into something worthwile. In fact, they’ve already started.

In an article published on AzRedReport.com — a site dedicated to the Cardinals and run by Scout.com — you find a few different phrases to describe Morelli than the ones that circulated around Pennsylvania during his senior season. Like, “fierce competitor,” and “as much ability as anyone in the draft.”

Quoted in the story was Tom Marino, a former professional scout who has been around the NFL for three decades. He raved about Morelli’s tools — which a lot of scouts did leading up to the draft. He said he had “all the tools” — which is what got him in trouble with Penn State fans anyway.

But Marino was also quoted as describing Morelli in these two ways: “Acutely under coached” and “unprepared for the job of being a professional QB.”

That’s not a knock on Anthony Morelli. That’s a knock — and a pretty severe one — on the Penn State system and quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno.

Hey, everyone has an opinion on the job JayPa has done, and most of those aren’t flattering to the head coach’s son. Mine has always been that he has gotten at the very best a hasty evaluation.

The inconsistent, disappointing quarterback can expedite one.

If Morelli can do what his skills say he can do, open some eyes in the desert, beat out a very capable veteran third-stringer named Brian St. Pierre for a roster spot and show that all his freakish skills needed was some nurturing from better coaching, that would be quite an indictment on his college quarterbacks coach.

If Morelli shows more of what he did during his time in Happy Valley — the maddening throws into double coverage, the high passes to the wide open receivers, the mistakes at the absolute wrong time — then it’s time to get off Jay Paterno’s back.

Just remember, all quarterback-friendly systems have one thing in common: a consistent, successful quarterback to run it.
 

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According to draftdaddy.com -

OL Hercules Satele, Hawaii'
DL Keilen Dykes, West Virginia
T Thaddeus Coleman, Mississippi Valley State
QB Anthony Morelli, Penn State
DL Bryan Robinson, Wesley College
OG Carlton Medder, Florida
FB Dionte Johnson, Ohio State
S Dennis Keyes, U.C.L.A.
LB Ali Highsmith, LSU

That is 10 guys and we only have room to add one more and we will be at our limit of 80 players.

It better be a punter or a kicker.

Edit - They had Colement on that list twice so that is 9 players with room for 2 more actually.

The Cards had the fewest players under contract just a short time ago. With these UDFA's and the draft they added 16 players to the 30 some odd they had under contract. Where did the other 25-30 guys come from?
 

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I don't care if Moronelli had had Mike Holmgren as his QB coach. You simply cannot coach basic decision making, and he DOES NOT HAVE IT. He's about 200 times worse than Plummer, and he'll make the same stupid decisions over and over and over and over and over and...
 

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The Cards had the fewest players under contract just a short time ago. With these UDFA's and the draft they added 16 players to the 30 some odd they had under contract. Where did the other 25-30 guys come from?

20 rookies
7 new free agents
3 RFA's
1 Franchise tag
3 EFA's
8 of our own FA re-signed

Adds up really fast
 

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I don't care if Moronelli had had Mike Holmgren as his QB coach. You simply cannot coach basic decision making, and he DOES NOT HAVE IT. He's about 200 times worse than Plummer, and he'll make the same stupid decisions over and over and over and over and over and...
Holmgren fixed Favre's decision making. :)
 

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He'd cast his hands up in frustration over Moronelli. And he didn't fix Favre's decision making. Wasn't that Madden? Oh no, you're right...Madden's just the guy that slobbers all over him in disturbing ways.
True. At least they didn't use a draft pick on Moronelli. Or did they?
 
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