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Originally Posted by lostcause
To be fair you're comparing this squad to arguably the best 3-4 defense ever run in the NFL that had Lawrence Taylor on the same side as Leonard Marshall, the DE that got most of those dline sacks.
Good to shoot for the stars, but probably not fair to call the chiefs DEs "garbage" because they don't measure up to the BBWC. Additionally, the DEs in the Giants 3-4 were undersized drastically by todays standards of a 3-4 DE.
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Actually, you are echoing my point. A team must have good players and these guys on the Chiefs DL so far just have not gotten it going. Re "undersized" this NYG group was one of the best run stuffer defenses ever, so size really isn't an issue.
The bottom line is and always will be players and this team just has not had any good BFF type DL guys going back more than a decade. I think they are on track, we'll see if some of the new players like Bailey and Powe, Poe or somebody can get pressure during passing downs.
Speaking of passing downs, you don't want your DL "taking up blockers" during a pass play. What has been going on here is that the staff is buying the team time giving you catch phrases like "we need them to take up blockers" yadayada. Well that's all dandy during run plays, but to have 3 linemen just standing around engaged on blockers during a pass play is just laughable suggestion. That is coach - speak, for sure.
You have to be good enough to "contain rush" your way to the QB and that depends on what your OLB's are doing also. A good NT helps too, he is the one in the middle that absolutely MUST 2 gap his way up field. Sometimes you make your ROLB play contain rush while your RDE comes up the b gap, but you have to have a player at RDE that can get it and Dorsey is not that guy.
They really need that guy at RDE that can apply pressure. It's not really about sacks, but sacks will accumulate when you get pressure from DL positions. Poe could perhaps fill in this season, Powe is fairly quick so maybe he can get it going there.
Somebody has got to get that position going in order for this type of defense to get working.
Between Bailey, Poe, Powe & Jackson, somebody has got to start applying pressure from the DL.