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Originally Posted by milkman
You're not getting it.
I am not talking about what I would do on defense.
I am talking about the system that Crennel runs.
He uses all his LBs in coverage.
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And I'm telling you the same thing I told DoucheMcCloud in the Lounge: you guys are all hung up on the purity of a system, you're forgetting the reality on the ground.
The Crennel system also gets a halfway decent passrush from its DEs. Which, despite the fact that we have spent Top 5s on two DEs, we don't have. Dorsey and Jackson are never going to have 7-8 sack seasons. We'll be lucky if either has a 3-sack season. And that's coming from a guy that believes in both players.
So we have to engineer those sacks from somewhere, or else trade/replace those two DEs.
So while I understand what you're saying, and agree that Ayers is definitely more of a Crennel SOLB prototype, we need the potential for double-digit sacks that Houston provides. Period.
Now, in my opening post, I said that I did not expect Pioli to pick Houston, mostly for the reason you specified.