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Originally Posted by Direckshun
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.
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And I'm telling you again that I don't disagree with what you're saying, and I would, given my choice, go after that pass rusher on the other side of Hali.
But again, it's not you and me making the decisions and calling the defense.
Even with the lack of pass rush from our ends, Crennel still rarely sent the LOLB, whether it was Vrabel or Studebaker, after the QB.
And in spite of the fact that both Berry and Arenas were seen as outstanding blitzers from their respective positions, Crennel didn't utilize their pass rush skills much at all either.
I'm not dedicated to Crennel's system, and in fact was not all that enthused by his hire.
But Crennel is dedicated to his system and with that in mind, I'm looking at guys that fit what
HE does.