
02-19-2010, 09:56 PM
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 | aka AxionJaxson | | Join Date: May 2007
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Originally Posted by pctrips I think he's the best defensive lineman we have in KC. He's been in the league 2 years and had to play 2 completely different schemes. He holds up well at the point of attack in the run game and does a good job of keeping the offensive line off the linebackers. When he was out our run defense was signficantly worse. At this point he hasn't looked like the All Pro everyone hoped for, but he's easily shaping up to be a 10 year starter in the NFL. The only real downside I've seen is that he doesn't really get to the quarterback from the defensive end position, but as long as he can hold the line and eat up blockers he'll do. | To be fair, it's not really his job to get at the qb from the end spot in a 34. Aside from a couple notable exceptions (Bruce Smith, to a lesser degree Seymour), you're rarely going to see a pure 34 DE getting any notable sack numbers. Usually what sacks they do get come when they move inside for nickel packs.
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