Through the Smoke

How nice would it be to find a DT who could perform a mash and not get either beasted or run themselves up field to much and take themselves out of the play. We need a run stopper in the worst kind of way. It doesn't matter how fast our backers are when our tackles are 5 yards up field and the offensive gaurds are already up to the next level blocking our backers. SMH I'm still bitter about our run defense last year lol

Man do I agree with this! It helps a lot if you have tackles that simply can't get pushed out of the way. Occupy those interior O-lineman and free up the LB's. I think our mentality has been everybody passrush and that has hurt us a bit because it's easier to guide guys out of the way than it is to move them from a spot. It sounds like this kid is in the mold of a Sam Adams or Tony Siragusa from that Super Bowl Baltimore Ravens team (just saying he's in the same mold...not that he's as good), and that sounds pretty good to me.

I think this is just what we needed! A big beast in the middle of that line that just let's the dogs go out and do what they do best, EAT!!!