Re: Is Freeney out for season?
On differnece though. Samuels Ints were a high number, Freeneys sacks are a poor number.
Obviously an Int has a bigger impact than a sack, and occurs less frequently. But the imact of leading the league in Ints isn't comparable to the impact of being 52nd in the league in sacks.
Think about being 52nd in the league in sacks.
That means on 19 teams you would be the 3rd best pass rusher and on 13 teams you would be 2nd best. (Actually tied for 2nd best on most,since he is tired for 52nd)
I still cannot fathom how a guy who has POOR numbers rushing the passer and is given a role where he only rushers the passer can be considered a great defensive player, much less great at his position. If I am a .220 hitter with power, but only hit 11 HRs and drive in 65, I am not a great baseball player, even if I used to hit 35 HRs before they figured out I couldn't hit the curve.
It actually blew my mind that he's that far down in the pass rush stats, given that that's all he does. Probably like many here, what I remember is his one league leading season... when spinning around in a circle was new.
As for this notion that you just make him do stuff different, change his shape and weight, and plug him into a role
here, it makes me ill.
Look: We have the best 3 D linemen in the league, for
what we do. Given the success of what we do, many say we have the best 3 in the league.
Why the
hell would we want to try to plug in a guy who - in his present form - could
not perform in that system, hoping we could change him to make him possibly maybe we hope just as good as
what we already have???
That's the kind of thing you do with a college prospect, a guy whose value is unknown, not the kind of thing you do with a known quantity, who is good at a certain kind of game, and is already being overcompensated for what he brings. It's like going out and buying a used porsche, where the engine is only so-so with unleaded gas -- oh yeah, the only kind you can buy nowadays. Then you try to bolt on a big flatbed, based on the idea that if you take the porsche's performance from back when his engine was the coolest thing out there, and bolt on a flatbed, then maybe stick a JATO bottle on the trunk, it would be the fastest dadburn flatbed on the road, when in fact that's not what you want anyway, unless you're shooting a scene for
Mythbusters or
the Darwin Awards.
I do love Dwight Freeney for tying up the Colts' payroll for a good long time.
By the way in terms of cash...? Why don't we talk about whether you want Dwight Freeney for 8 years, or Randy Moss. Because that's the kind of cash we're talking about...
assuming Randy even demands that much.
PFnV