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A few things will
A) Andre Carter improved towards the end of the year. Had 4 sacks in the last 6 games and started to make plays. This was consistant with him becoming comfortable as a DE again (and I was a HUGE Carter critic)
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to counter, Andre Carter has been an average pass-rusher for years, and continued it last year, even in his "amazing" run to end the season
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Originally Posted by SkinsHokieFan
B) Secondary depth. One of the big things that was overlooked last year was what a key injury Pierson Prielea was. Took away a pretty solid cover safety
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ok, you added Fred Smoot who bites on fakes and gets burned trying to make the big play, and a rookie to start at S along w/ Taylor, I hope you don't believe that a rookie safety is going to be able to hold up in coverage w/o a pass-rush
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What does that mean? This prevented GW from employing those riddiculous blitzes he loves. You know the ones that somehow allows Chris Clemons to sack Vinny T 3 times or produces 7 sacks in a game against Dallas in a December blowout win
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I know the ones, the ones that got figured out since the league has 2 years of tape on them, and lol at your Dallas example, you guys took advantage of one of the worst bookends at OT the NFL has seen in a few years
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that's cool, but he doesn't have a pass-rush to help him
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Williams doesn't appear to be one who creates pressure from the front 4 d-line applying pressure. As was stated, the D-line is primarily gap control and the pressure comes from blitzes
It worked real well in 2004 and 2005. It worked horribly in 2006 because you had Mike Rumph covering guys 1 on 1 or Adam Archuleta being totally out of the play as a TE ran by him
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it worked horribly in '06 because teams figured out Greg WIlliams' scheme, all you have to do to defeat it is to throw quick passes
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Originally Posted by SkinsHokieFan
Hence why the pick of Landry, signing of Smoot and Macklin and NOT unloading Shawn Springs
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that all becomes moot w/o a pass-rush, again, your pass-rush may improve, but you only accounted for 19 sacks last year, so it's not going to be that big of an improvement to really help your D
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Originally Posted by SkinsHokieFan
Of course if I was in charge Okoye would have been my pick. May have been a bit high at number 6, but I am one of those guys who looks for dominating line play
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which you aren't going to get next year, could have used him more than Landry