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Originally Posted by Xanathol

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.

Redirect your energy. Are you actually trying to make a case that T.J.,in his roll, is better then Hali in his??? If so, it's the PERFECT example of why stats are meaningless and how one can manipulate them to support one side of a discussion.