Originally posted by pasodoc9er:
Pain or not, just watch Dee in a 3 pt ....with each call of the count the guy is up on his toes and fingers, just shaking, praying for the snap. When he does hear it he goes like a rocket and gets home, frequently meeting his bud from the other side colliding with the QB, or knocking the ball loose, TFL or sack...and he has had his QB hits too.
there can't be many QBs out there looking forward to Buck up the center, Arik again right with him(but this time looking for the qB who is usually right in front of him), Dee from R and Nick from L . And sometimes they switch. The unapppreciated thing is we also got Ron Blair to give one or the other of our DEs a blow, which is a Godsend.
DTs get a blow almost every two plays and DJ Jones doesnt' give up anything. When in, Julian looked good inside, and Solly has had his snaps cut. I wish they weren't all inside but that isnt the case now. I made a point of having 8 DTs and 2 DEs, but Blair has to be counted now as good DE.
As for DTs, they face the crush and rotating them in has been huge for the DL. Maybe we have too many, maybe not. But Blair is definitely DE now.. Just think for a moment about those OLs who have to face the starting DL , and then see the DTs rotated in, fresh as ever ...it has to psych out the OLs after a while. And they slow down as we keep going. Have to admit i am coming around to having more DLs than i would have liked...but it sure works when you got talent like Nick and Dee on the outisde.
This sounds like a sound bite from our super bowl dvd at the end of the year. I can dig it
