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LB Anthony Schlegel (Boar Hunter)

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4/26

Schlegel a good fit for Pats?
 By Albert Breer/ Daily News Staff
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

For all the hype surrounding the Ohio State linebacking corps, it'd be easy to think that only two players -- A.J. Hawk and Bobby Carpenter -- started at the position last fall.
The third guy, middle 'backer Anthony Schlegel, will also be there for the taking over the weekend. And if you read between the lines, he's a guy who the Patriots very well could be interested in somewhere in the second day.
In fact, they've already shown a level of intrigue toward the 25-year-old prospect, with defensive coordinator Dean Pees and regional scout Bob Quinn putting Schlegel through a private workout on the Columbus campus.
"They said they were pleasantly surprised by the workout," said agent Adam Heller. "He had better speed and athleticism than they thought he would."
Because those are his perceived shortcomings, giving him problems in coverage and the open field, Schlegel is seen by most as a two-down plugger, a la Ted Johnson. And at 6-foot- 1/2 and 250 pounds, he fits that mold as a Patriot inside linebacker.
Plus, he fits the team's prototype from a character standpoint. The Texas native spent his first two years in college at Air Force, and was elected team captain for the Falcons as a true sophomore. He then transferred to Ohio State and, after sitting out a year per NCAA rules, became the signal-caller for the star-studded defense.
Schlegel's been married for more than two years, has a child on the way in July, and graduated from OSU in March with a degree in consumer affairs. He's also not lacking for connections in Foxboro, having worked out with Mike Vrabel all offseason and being a teammate of defensive line coach Pepper Johnson's son Dionte at OSU.
Heller says, "I just think it's a great fit."
 
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4/27/06

OHIO STATE FOOTBALL

Draft weekend brings much uncertainty to Schlegel family

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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Baby Schlegel will be a native Texan, his parents know that much. Where he will spend his first birthday is anyone’s guess.

That’s life when you await your fate in the NFL draft, as Ohio State linebacker Anthony Schlegel does. Unlike most of his peers, Schlegel has a wife and an unborn son whose futures are also in limbo.

"It’s definitely weird, but the nice thing is we’ll find out (this weekend) and then we’ll know," Schlegel said.

It’s an unsettling time for Stephanie Schlegel. She is six months’ pregnant with the couple’s first child, with a due date of July 23. That’s right about the time Anthony will be expected to report to his first NFL training camp, wherever it might be.

"Obviously, you’d like to have a house and a baby room and everything planned," Stephanie said. "It’s hard because I’m a huge planner and I try to keep everything organized, but there’s no way to be organized at a time like this."

Stephanie, a teacher at Hilliard Davidson High School, will move back in with her parents in Mansfield, Texas, when the school year ends in early June and will have the baby in familiar surroundings.

She and Anthony met as freshmen in a suburban Dallas high school in 1995 and were married on Valentine’s Day 2004. They’ve been together a long time.

They might be briefly separated in late July, when baby makes three, but they’ll soon all be together again, somewhere.

"It’s stressful, because obviously I want him to be around (for the birth)," Stephanie said, "but we’re also very excited. Whatever happens, we’re fine with it."

Schlegel is expected to be a second-day pick (the first three rounds are Saturday; rounds four through seven are Sunday). Some have questioned his speed, although he ran 40 yards in a respectable 4.7-second range at OSU’s pro day in March.

Nobody questions his effort or his tackling ability.

"I’m a straight inside linebacker," Schlegel said. "If there’s a team that might have some issues up the middle with the run or like people who blitz, that’s what I’ve done my whole career."

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Congrats to the Boar Hunter for being selected on Day 1!

And he'll still be able to occasionally butt heads with Nick Mangold in practice.

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5/1

Character was Jets' top priority in draft
Monday, May 1, 2006

By RANDY LANGE
STAFF WRITER

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Welcome to the Jets, your Stepford football team.
It's not true that every one of the Jets' 10 picks during draft weekend is married, comes from Ohio, is a great quote, was a team captain in college and is doing postgrad work. It just seems that way.
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Take the topic of what positions some of these players will line up at during coach Eric Mangini's first rookie minicamp in two weeks.
Third-round linebacker Anthony Schlegel (who impressed Mangini because he "hunts wild boar with a knife") said, "Wherever the team wants me to fit, I'm going to do it."
"Whatever they want to do," seventh-round defensive tackle Titus Adams echoed, "I'm their guy."
And fourth-round pick Brad Smith, Missouri's four-year starting quarterback who may have the most trouble of all the picks in giving up his dream job, even bit his tongue. "I'm coming in as a team player and athlete," he said, "so wherever I need to go ... "
This is not the most massive coincidence in the 71 years of the NFL draft. Mangini is seeking players with qualities such as character, intelligence, toughness and competitiveness -- the Ohio hometown is optional -- and he said he's put those attributes on lists that he posted in the pro personnel and draft rooms in case his scouts need reminders.
"When games get tough, seasons get tough, situations get tough, guys with character usually win out," Mangini said Sunday. "I've seen it with Dave Givens and Tom Brady [at New England]. Those two guys weren't very good their rookie years. They weren't.
"But they had all those other things, plus ability. And their work ethic was unparalleled. They turned themselves into great players."
The trouble with that philosophy is that it produces a squeaky-clean draft such as the one the Jets just executed. Lots of character, no characters. Good names in the community, no big names for the fans.
This rankled many general sports columnists and football writers, who questioned the new Jets' regime's courage, competence and common sense for passing on Southern California quarterback Matt Leinart and taking Virginia tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson with the team's fourth overall pick.
A good case can be made for taking Leinart over Dah Brick (although it should be noted that eight other teams also passed on Leinart before Arizona took him at No. 10).
But the next value board most of these critics set up will be their first. When did the debatable opinion that the Jets needed a new quarterback for star appeal alone become the basis for character assassination?
Some worried that Mike Tannenbaum might be too thin-skinned as a 37-year-old first-time general manager, but Mr. T showed no ill effects from the poison pens as he wrapped up his first draft conducted with the Jets' new vision.
"We took measured, deliberate steps, assessed the risks and opportunities, and at the end of the day we were in real solid agreement in the room," Tannenbaum said about the Jets' draft. "I feel good about what we did as an organization. Are we done? No. There's a long way to go still."
Exciting? No.
But the real criticism of the Jets will be based on how long and how soon, if ever, these Jets get to where the Bill Belichick Patriots have been for the past five years.
The blueprint works. But will Tannenbaum be a good enough talent evaluator? Will Mangini measure up as a head coach?
If the Jets can't close the gap with the Patriots in the coming years, let the character assassination begin.
But for making a football decision not to take Matt Leinart on April 29? Give me a break.
 
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5/13

Jets' rookie LB is 'big-game' tested


Saturday, May 13, 2006 DAVE HUTCHINSON
Star-Ledger Staff
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Yes, Jets rookie inside linebacker Anthony Schlegel does hunt wild boar with a knife.
"People are like, 'It's dangerous,"' Schlegel said with a smile yesterday in between practices on the first day of rookie minicamp at Hofstra. "I guess it could be be cause they have big cutters (nails). But I think I'm a little too quick for them."
Schlegel, a third-round pick out of Ohio State, said the secret to hunting boars is to have them distracted by a pack of dogs and sneak up on them. He has been hunting boar -- and other wild animals -- since high school but hasn't done so in the past couple of years.
"They (the boars) aren't really playing attention to you and you kind of go in there, get them from the side, grab their back legs and tie them up," said Schlegel, who grew up in Dallas.
Schlegel said coach Eric Mangini joked during his pre-draft visit that the Jets had a truck of wild boar on the way but it got lost in traffic.
At Ohio State, Schlegel, described as a "free spirit," was overshadowed by fellow linebackers A.J. Hawk (fifth overall, Packers) and Bobby Carpenter (18th overall, Cowboys). In fact, the Jets spotted him while scouting Hawk.
Last season, the 6-foot-1, 251-pound Schlegel, a hard-hitting, overachiever, had 82 tackles (2nd on the team). He heady and makes few mistakes. Still, many draft ex perts called the Jets' selection of him in the third round a "reach."
"You can't control what other people think," said Schlegel, who'll play inside linebacker in the Jets' 3-4 alignment. "That didn't really bother me."
Schlegel, who married his high school sweetheart and has a child on the way, orginially enrolled at the Air Force Academy but transferred to Ohio State after his sophomore season. He was a co-captain at Air Force as a sophomore.
"It wasn't football related, it was just a personal decision," said Schlegel, who refused to elaborate. "At the time, I felt I needed to leave."

Schlegel, however, took a large part of the Academy with him to Ohio State. The Buckeyes adopted an honor code and honor commit tee, similar to those at the Academy, at the urging of Schlegel, who was a co-captain last season.
Since he left the Academy, Schlegel has stayed in touch with his friends and even helped the school with recruiting. He said some of his friends are flying combat missions in Iraq.
While at the academy, Schlegel was studying to become a combat controller, someone who sets up air strikes.
"I loved everything the Academy stood for," he said. "It was great for me. I'm truly grateful to it because it really made me grow up as a man." ...
First-year coach Eric Mangini, who has 40 players in camp, said it was a bit emotional to oversee his first practice, albeit a rookie minicamp.
"It was an important day for me, being with the coaching staff and being on the field," he said. "It was fantastic to finally get out of the meeting room. It was personally satisfying. It was a lot of fun." ...
Although QB Chad Pennington said on Thursday that he's "throw ing every route we have in the playbook," Mangini was non-committal on whether he'll throw full-throttle during a passing camp scheduled to begin on May 30th. Pennington has been throwing since March 1. ...
Rookie free-agent RB DonTrell Moore (New Mexico) was raised in Roswell, New Mexico, the site of al leged alien sightings.
"Actually, I went to school with a couple," joked Moore, who is one of only six Division 1-A running backs to rush for over 1,000 yards in each of his four seasons, joining Tony Dorsett )Pitt), Amos Lawrence (North Carolina), Denvis Manns (New Mexico St.), Ron Dayne (Wisconsin) and Cedric Benson (Texas). ...
First-round pick LT D/ Brickasaw Ferguson (6-foot-6, 312 pounds) looked every bit the part of a franchise player -- even without pads -- during drills. ... At least rookie quarterback-turned-wide receiver Brad Smith (fourth-round, Missouri), was able to keep his No. 16 jersey number. ...
Rookie QB Kellen Clemens grew up in tiny Burns, Oregon (pop. 4,000) on a cattle ranch that his family has owned for five generations. He said the nearest shopping center is two hours away and the nearest airport three hours. ...
Unofficially, the Jets' 10 draft picks had the highest average wonderlic score (28.0) in the entire draft, followed by the Eagles (26.9). The league doesn't release the scores.
"I want to see that translate into doing the right assignments and making the right adjustments," Mangini said. "I hope that's not the only distinction this draft class has."
 
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5/17/06

At Jets' Camp, Every Rookie Tells a Story

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., May 12 — Anthony Schlegel opened his mouth to talk Friday, and the words came spilling out as if he could not spare a second to inhale. He did not even stop for the periods at the end of his sentences.

Schlegel, 25, has every reason to feel as if time has become his adversary. He is a linebacker who was drafted in the third round, and in July he will become a father for the first time.

"Everything's coming so fast," Schlegel, a former Ohio State standout, said during a break between practices on the first day of the Jets' rookie
minicamp. "You're trying to catch up to everybody who knows what's going on. It's a lot of learning." He added, "I've been very blessed, but it's like a crazy time."

To prevent players from joining camp feeling overconfident, Eric Mangini, the Jets' first-year coach, delivered an opening speech that was designed to be unsettling. He said he told them it did not matter what they had accomplished in college.

"What matters now is how they fit in to the New York Jets, how they can help this team win," he said. "I can't stress it enough for these guys, the fact that they need to find a way to help us win and the fact that nothing they've done in the past matters."

Schlegel made a big impression during his predraft interview when he told Woody Johnson, the Jets' owner, how he enjoyed hunting wild boar. When asked about his hobby Friday, Schlegel said that it had been a long time since he stalked a boar.

"People want to talk about it," said Schlegel, who is from Dallas. "But the biggest problem is I haven't done it for a couple of years just because I don't have enough time to go home to do it."

His wife, Stephanie, is due to deliver the couple's first child, a boy, at the end of July. Her due date coincides with the start of training camp. Schlegel does not want to think about the potential scheduling conflict. "You've got to worry about the here and now first," he said. "There's just a ton of stuff between now and then. When that time gets there, then we'll talk about it."

It can be disorienting when a player's reality catches up to his dreams. Nick Mangold, a center from Ohio State whom the Jets drafted with the 29th pick, was trying to learn a new vocabulary of commands by day and study for a business midterm by night.

Mangold, 22, is taking four business classes and a physics course. "It's a full load," he said. After this weekend's minicamp, he will return to Columbus in time for a physics lecture Monday morning. He will take his midterm later in the day and graduate next month.

He was talking to reporters when it dawned on him that he had neglected to tell his professors he would be missing classes Friday because he was starting his new job. "I kind of ran out of time to send them an e-mail," Mangold said. He added, "I'm still taking college classes, so to me, I'm still a college player, which makes this even more weird standing in the Jets' locker room."

Brad Smith felt strange huddling with the receivers during the morning practice. He was a quarterback at Missouri, where he became the first Division I-A player to throw for 8,000 yards and rush for 4,000. Before the draft, he seemed reluctant to consider a position change.

"When you're the quarterback, you have the control to determine the flow of the game," he said Friday. "As a receiver, you have to let the game come to you."

After being drafted in the fourth round to be a receiver, Smith said, he decided it was better to be in the N.F.L. as a receiver than not to be in the N.F.L. at all.

"Coach Mangini and all the other coaches have said just come in and do what you can and try to fit in on this team and try to help the team more than you try to help yourself," Smith said. "That's what I'm doing, just let my natural ability try to make up for what my skills lack as far as the nuances of playing the position. Then as I learn, I can catch up."

He added: "You're out here, you're a rookie anyway. Now it's like being a freshman in college. It's very humbling for me."

But it was exhilarating for Mangini. He was finally running the show after years of dreaming about this day and four months of preparing for it after he was hired by the Jets.
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Congrats to Anthony and his wife on the birth of their son.

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It's a boy! According to Bobby Carpenter, Anthony Schlegel and his wife Stephanie had a baby boy last week. Carpenter flew to Dallas were the Schlegels are currently residing to be with Anthony for the event. The boy has been named Hunter Lee Schlegel, and it is no coincidence that he is named Hunter and that his father is a dyed-in-the-wool hunting enthusiast.
 
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The Jets announced the signings of three draft picks yesterday. Two third-round selections - Eric Smith, a safety from Michigan State, and Ohio State linebacker Anthony Schlegel - received four-year deals. Smith got a $527,500 signing bonus, while Schlegel's bonus was $600,000. The Jets also signed their fourth-round pick, Missouri QB-turned-wide receiver Brad Smith, but details were not disclosed.
The Jets have signed five of their 10 draftees, while talks with top pick D'Brickashaw Ferguson are continuing.
 
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