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Originally Posted by Mecca
For as good as he is I'd say to an extent yes, he has a tendency to disappear without other players around him and numerous other teams have excellent MLB play with later picks used.
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Yes sir. IMO if you're going to use your 1st rounder on a LB there has to be a HUGE discrepancy between him and the pack, he has to stand far far out. If not, it's best to use that pick trying to find the next Roaf, Peyton, Neil Smith, or Champ Bailey.
That said, I don't think people (especially Carl Peterson) give the MLB position as much credit as it deserves. That lone position can be a lynch pin of a successful defense.
Qaulity MLB's stop the run and the short pass, and those two attributes keep the chains from moving and halt drives before they begin.
Another big item that teams like us miss out on when we don't have a stellar MLB, is the
punishment that a true stud at that position doles out. When you have a Ray Lewis or Urlacher up the middle, consistently laying wood on running backs, slot receivers, tight ends, gaurds, and centers, it can damn near incapacitate an offense by the 4th quarter.
I hate watching receivers catch slant routes over the middle on us, only to be slowly drug down by their jersey. A slant route over the middle should scare the sh*t out of a receiver, and his head oughta roll clear to the sidelines if he dares raise his arms to catch the ball over the middle.
If you can intimidate an opposing team, you can dictate the game to them, and right now the Chiefs aren't intimidating anyone.