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Originally Posted by TEX
Not really at all. Sure if you want to pick a single game and a player to be the basis of your opinion, then maybe your logic prevails. However, compare the player you chose to Jackson across the board. See what you get. Also, compare how TJ fared against the same competition. Is he anywhere in the same ball park? Has he ever stood out? No. He's improved at what he does, but as someone said earlier his game has not evolved. He's still a 2 down player and not going to be worth the $$$ it's gonna cost to keep him. If he signs a cap friendly contract, then I'd be in favor of keeping him, but ONLY then.
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1. He spent most of his career two-gapping... a player who 'stands out' getting sacks like that is doing it wrong and your defense is probably suffering elsewhere.
2. Since the defense has switched to be a bit more attacking with some 1 gap play, TJ has had 3 & 4 sacks respectively - half a sack behind Poe this season and the leader in sacks last season among the Dline.
3. The past two seasons, TJ's sacks came vs Carolina (1), Cleveland (1), Washington (1), Oakland (2), Cincy (1), and Jacksonville (1). Hali's from the past two seasons came vs SD (2), Baltimore (2), Tampa (1), Cincy (1), Cleveland (2), Indy (1), Philly (1), NYG (2), Tennessee (1), Oakland (2.5), Houston (2.5), Washington (2). 25% of Hali's sacks came vs teams with combined winning records over the past two season; 14% for TJ.
4. I completely agree that the game is a lot more than the numbers, but people are insisting the lack of stats mean less worth, which is foolish, especially considering he has stats for this style of defense. The guy did well as a 2-gap DE ( as did Dorsey - he did
very well ) and has been the best Dlineman on the roster the past two seasons.