homerpatsfan
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Those were coverage sacks. Anyways ... what do you think ... is vrabel a good pass rusher or not.
It drives me crazy to hear Pass Rusher and Mike Vrabel linked together. he is flat out horrible IMO. 9.5 sacks against squat teams is a useless statistic. He has one move and only one move every snap ... the lower your shoulder bullrush to the QB. All season long he was driven 10 yards behind the QB play after play.
I think Vrabel is a great player and a damn fine linebacker ... but not as a pass rusher .. please .. I'd rather have vince wilfork bullrushing the QB ... at least he won't be 10 yards behind the QB play after play after play.
why does it bother me so much? It's like a player who is always on the ground ... you can't get into a play if your not in position to make a play. At least as an ILB Vrabel was in or near the play to make a play. But being 5-10 yards behind the QB play after play is no way to help your teamates after a pass or a run...not his fault either. He's doing what was asked of him ... but really ... I hope the pass rushing days of Mike vrabel are behind us for 2008-2009.
Mike Vrabel is a very good pass rusher. It is unbelievable to me how many truly CRAPPY threads are currently in circulation. I really don't want to just b!tch about so many of them, but this is ludicrous.
He was voted to the probowl because of his QB pressures so this thread is kind of confusing. Sure he's may get pushed 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage a lot, but so does everyone else. There could be 60 plays in one game and you expect him to get to get the QB every time?
again, a lot of those sacks were pre-Colvin injury.
He abused Steeler OL all day too. They aren't that good. But, he did have some big plays after Colvin. Went down. Don't forget leg whip on Rivers on Asante's pick Totally agree about the BS threads. I think a lot of the complainers lost money on the Super Bowl and ***** because of that. Not because they enjoy following the team.
One question. How many DE/OLBs got 12.5 sacks against even crap teams last year? If you're going to criticize who he got his sacks against, then what about other DEs who played those teams?
I count 5 out of a possible 128 (starters) that got more.
(2 DEs + 2 OLBs) x 32 teams
That only counts the starters. So how does he suck?