BananaRepublican

"Where will we make up their sack number?"

It's a good rhetorical question for the reason that it can't be answered. Other than that it's not a good question when the implication is that all is lost.

Bean-counting sacks misses the point of a defense that plays as a unit and plays sound situationally. Who cares if your defense gets 50 sacks and your team is golfing this week? Where is all world JPP this week? Where is Rob Ninkovich this week? I'll take 35 sacks and sound situational football any day.

BananaRepublican

Wasn't he in The Jerk?

BananaRepublican

Thanks, I'll pass. Got me a belly full of NY Jets bilge already.

Urrrp ...

Can it be all belched out before Rex gets back from the Bahamas and begins a new round of promises?

Hey, how about the Sexy Rexy not saying a word to the media about Tannebaum's demise and then blowing town for the beach? Wow, I don't even know what to call that.

But I digress. Urrrrppp ..... it's the season to renew, to purge, to pretend that Rexy and the Jetsies don't exist.

Dragda

There was a recent book (Bedards?) that discussed some displeasure at Samuel's play within the scheme. To summarize what I remember: He plays well, but doesn't play his assignment well.

captain stone

True; but it also would've resulted in having the most expensive DTs in football.
What Bill should've done was draft Bryant at the end of the 3rd round in '08 instead of
5th-round talent Kevin O'Connell, or Ahtyba Rubin at the end of the 5th round instead of
"Pro-Bowler" Matt Slater.

As for the rest of Reiss' weekly list, I still want Koppen at Center if Connolly has to play RG;
Salas/Gaffney at WR instead of Kamar Aiken; Kopa at Swing Tackle instead of Zusevics;
Ihedigbo at backup SS/STer instead of Ebner; Sterling Moore instead of Mal Williams; and
Carter at DE instead of Bequette.

The Law Firm would also help ease my mind, but at $3M? I don't know...maybe.

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Deus Irae

They brought him in and accepted some "conditions" he'd put on his game (not a press man guy, etc...). They then tried to renege on the agreement and he wouldn't do it.

In short, they had a light tackling zone player, agreed that he'd play in a light tackle zone situation, and tried to change him to a big tackle press man guy almost immediately.

Again, the Falcons are benefitting greatly from the Eagles' folly.

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ATippett56

Jim Johnson was a great defensive coordinator.

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ATippett56

Nope!

Stick a fork in Jabar Gaffney, he's done.

Zusevics has more long term potential than Kopa.

James Ihedigbo has no defensive upside.

Neither is fine with me.

The Andre Carter ship has sailed. It's time to move on.

Not for the contract BenJarvus Green-Ellis signed with the Cincinnati Bengals.

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NormZauchin

I don't understand your point. If the Pats had signed Carter, he would have been coming back from a major injury and - presumably - would have gotten better as the season went on. No argument. But his numbers would have been down considerably from last year and would have been less than that of either defensive end who started this year.

I don't know if the Patriots offerred him a contract and he rejected it, or if the organization was in a wait and see mode with the new FAs and rookies, as someone else has said. I tend to think the latter.

Don't get me wrong. I liked Carter (saw a lot of him when he was down here with the Redskins), but I just wanted to give Belichick some credit for making a difficult decision that turned out right.

Deus Irae

You're claiming it turned out right. Others are disagreeing with that claim.

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