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What should our game plan be to contain Dunlap? Double team? Going to be quite the challenge for our O line. Solder needs to step up. Did anyone expect Dunlap to have this good of a career? He is a stud. After his 14 sack season last year, he has continued to establish himself as one of the best defensive players in the NFL. The frustrating part is, he could and should have been a patriot. In a draft where we had already gotten mccourty and Gronk( can you imagine Dunlap too?). I say this because we drafted a Florida Gator defensive end in the second round. The very next pick, Dunlap was selected.
Dunlap stats in 2016 through week 5
First in passes defended (tipped).....5
Second in forced fumbles................2 (1 behind leader)
Second in total tackles..................22 (2 behind leader
Third in QB hurries.........................9 (2 behind leader)
Third in solo tackles......................15 (3 behind leader)
Fourth in sacks..............................4 (1 behind leader)
And he has accomplished all of this despite ranking 24th in defensive snaps played by a DE (230) a full 121 snaps fewer than the league leader (Jason Pierre-Paul 351)
Still bummed BB chose his far worse college teammate over Dunlap, despite urban Meyer being best friends with BB. BB outsmarted himself on that one.
This might explain it
"The release of Cunningham brings his journey with Bill Belichick to an apparent end. In a conversation with WEEI in 2011, former Florida coach Urban Meyer recounted the tale of Belichick and Cunningham — it appears that the New England coach fell for Cunningham as a collegian.
“That started his sophomore year,” Meyer said of Belichick’s interest in Cunningham. “Coach Belichick would always come down and watch film and I’d sometimes sit in there and he would keep asking about [Jermaine]: ‘Who’s this guy? Who’s this guy? Who’s this guy?’ And you had Derrick Harvey, you had Jarvis Moss, Carlos Dunlap, and then Jermaine was kind of the next guy, but he would always say ‘Who is that guy? I love that guy.’
“Bill Belichick’s the one who saw a lot in him.” - 2013
Dunlap stats in 2016 through week 5
First in passes defended (tipped).....5
Second in forced fumbles................2 (1 behind leader)
Second in total tackles..................22 (2 behind leader
Third in QB hurries.........................9 (2 behind leader)
Third in solo tackles......................15 (3 behind leader)
Fourth in sacks..............................4 (1 behind leader)
And he has accomplished all of this despite ranking 24th in defensive snaps played by a DE (230) a full 121 snaps fewer than the league leader (Jason Pierre-Paul 351)
Still bummed BB chose his far worse college teammate over Dunlap, despite urban Meyer being best friends with BB. BB outsmarted himself on that one.
This might explain it
"The release of Cunningham brings his journey with Bill Belichick to an apparent end. In a conversation with WEEI in 2011, former Florida coach Urban Meyer recounted the tale of Belichick and Cunningham — it appears that the New England coach fell for Cunningham as a collegian.
“That started his sophomore year,” Meyer said of Belichick’s interest in Cunningham. “Coach Belichick would always come down and watch film and I’d sometimes sit in there and he would keep asking about [Jermaine]: ‘Who’s this guy? Who’s this guy? Who’s this guy?’ And you had Derrick Harvey, you had Jarvis Moss, Carlos Dunlap, and then Jermaine was kind of the next guy, but he would always say ‘Who is that guy? I love that guy.’
“Bill Belichick’s the one who saw a lot in him.” - 2013
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