Good lord. That's why you watch the play and not rely on "numbers". Yeah it is odd to be empty on sacks, but good lord he was a terror in last year's superbowl and made some big plays this postseason and last.

Well you're sure as **** not going to find them by not trying. Don't give me that crap. Damn near every great player on this roster aside from Mahomes was a 2nd rounder or later....

We can find a Sneed in the 4th but im suppose to think they CAN'T find an edge in the bttm 1st? C'mon now.

Dude, how many times have you seen Kelce make a fool of even the best LB's?

Nobody can cover good TE's one on one, that's why they're good.

They just drafted Willie Gay. There's no reason to spend quality draft capital on a low value position.

And because there’s very little pass rush on the edges to force QB’s to step up into the pocket.

Yep.

He's the best DT in the league not named Aaron Donald.

Every other team in the league would kill to have Chris Jones and here we are...

:shake:

mmmhrrrmmmm

Hope is not a strategy. He took for freaking EVAR to crack the lineup, and showed a couple of flashes, but nothing consistent. To call him a playmaker now is severely premature.

I'm not saying we use our top draft pick on a LB. Nor should we sell out for a FA LB (if we had the cap space to begin with). Simply stating that LB is where we have a glaring weakness in this defense. We scheme to cover it up by running a base nickel. We have Sorenson playing a pseudolinebacker role. Sometimes Mathieu, but his primary role is rover. Dirty Dan is the closest we have to a playmaking LB right now. Maybe Gay will be the guy to actually BE a playmaking LB, but he's not yet proven that.

We just watched Kelce vs a great LB. Kelce got his, because he is the best TE in the league, but he sure didn't make David, White, or Barrett look like fools.

Imagine having just one of those guys in our LB corps. With Jones up front and Mathieu & Sneed in the secondary. That's legit playmakers at all three levels.

They run a base nickel because it's effective and because that's what Spags thinks works in this day and age.

They're not scheming to cover up a weakness at LB at all.

They run a base nickel because they want to.

When your QB is running for his life on every play, that creates favorable situations in coverage. It's as simple as that.

LB's just aren't that important. Certainly not worth investing high draft picks on.

If you’re drafting a guy or signing a bargain bin free agent, that’s not hope as well?

There’s more reason for optimism with Willie Gay than those 2 options. He’s the total package in terms of size and athleticism, and he flashed every time he saw the field. LB is a very difficult position to learn in this defense, and Gay was already a bit raw coming out. When you combine that with the weird offseason and no preseason, it’s not surprising that Gay was essentially a red shirt.

They are going to unleash him next year and he’ll take a huge step.

And where did I say they shouldn't try? Point is, they've tried and haven't evaluated well at that position. Not like they're not trying. They even paid a crap load of money to Frank Clark and gave up draft picks. They understand the importance of the position.

As for Mahomes, who you mentioned, remember they traded up for him. I don't know if they'll want to move up to get an edge rusher. Not the same thing unless it's almost a sure thing like Mahomes was with Veach.

They don’t have to ****ing move up to get an edge rusher.

Jaelan Phillips, Jayson Oweh, Azeez Ojulari, and Joseph Ossai are all great prospects that could realistically be available at 31.

Then you have guys like Ronnie Perskins, Patrick Jones, Carlos Basham, Joe Tryon, and Quincy Roche on day 2.

This class is loaded at edge rusher. This idea that you can only find edge rushers in the top 10 is stupid.

Keep trying.