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The only team that Danny Shelton has ever known has been arguably the most pathetic franchise in the history of the league at the deepest depths of their despair. Since you know about football, physics or team sports you know that a single defensive tackle against an entire opposing offensive line is a lose/lose proposition no matter how good.
I also know that being on a bad team is not a talisman against all negative analysis, and that Shelton was not, in fact, the only defensive player on the field for the Browns.
We got shellacked by the Eagles because Malcolm Brown was our only good defensive tackle, you may disagree but in the real world football doesn't happen in a vacuum. Ricky Jean Francois isn't a healthy Alan Branch or Vincent Valentine... the guy had no job outside of Dunkins until the Pats called.
The Patriots defense got roasted for a bunch of reasons. The death of Alan Branch's will to play football was certainly among them, but it wasn't all because another 2015 disappointment at DL was the team's "only good defensive tackle".
Football is a TEAM sport, Randy Moss had 1000 yards because in year 1 Kerry Collins was his QB. In year two it was two guys you never heard of (Andrew Walter, Aaron Brooks).
Moss had put up big years with bad QBs before. You need to stop with the Moss comparison stuff. You've got nothing there.
In my estimation they just got a blue chip DT, if I misunderstood your response I apologize.
He has not played like a blue chip DT to this point in his NFL career. He's been a disappointment, though not a bust. He's now on a team that generally tries to conform plan to talent rather than talent to plan, and that may allow his game to blossom. I wish him well, and will love it if he ups his game, but neither he nor Brown has been anything to write home about at DL to this point in their careers, so we may all want to do some praying that Valentine shows some game this year.
As an aside, it's been far too long since this team found a Seymour, a Wilfork, or even a Warren in the draft, and that's got to change.