IF thats the basis on which YOU are making your evaluations, then we might as well close the site and turn in our tickets because we can't POSSIBLY make any positive judgements. The fact is that we DO have some actual basis to make a reasonable expectation, if not an actual "judgement" on Pierre Woods.
The facts are that he had about a game and a half as a starter to gauge his play, as well as the games he was not the starter but in the rotation. In those games, he played solidifly if not spectacularly. Plus I have my own eyes and 5 practices to see that he looks very solid if not spectacular on the practice field. He sets the edge very well, and quite frankly I don't how he's pass rushing since that drill is on the other field,
Why do fans think we have to have dominant pass rushers inorder to have a great pass rush. We NEVER had a double digit OLB sacker during the superbowl years. Who was our "dominant pass rusher THEN! Yet the Pats were always among the sack leaders as a team. Vrabel NEVER had a double digit sacks before 2007, when he could tee off on teams that were catch up mode most of the season.
MOST of the sacks the Pats have recorded over the last 9 years have come from the SCHEME, with a number of guys doing the dirty work to clear the way for someone else. As important as TEAM sacks (and QB pressures) are to the success of the defense, INDIVIDUAL sack totals are perhaps most UNRELIABLE stat when judging the value of a single player to the team.
Pats OLBs have a lot more to do than rush the passer. In the end we will judge them on what the ENTIRE defense does, when they "DO THEIR JOBS".
