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Originally Posted by -King-
So you think a year later he thinks that he got paid $100mil to set the edge and that doubling/chipping is a good excuse?
Btw, he got doubled like once or twice and only because we rushed 3 and a lineman went to find work.
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When? Vs. CLE? No. He was also chipped constantly. Just between both Hunt and Chubb, I watched them wheel around the end to put a shoulder on him probably more than half a dozen times. Watched Hooper chip him as well, iirc. Not sure how many times.
And I think I don't know what Clark thinks. Don't know the man. I guess you do? But even if you did, you think that people don't change their minds, or evolve their thinking in 16 months?
Are you really that dumb?
what I do know for a fact though, is that last season I reviewed/logged every Frank Clark snap in a game (don't remember exactly which one now, but I might bother to look it up), and out of 24 possible pass-rushing snaps, Clark only actually rushed the passer 9-10 times. And out of those 9-10 times, he only had a realistic chance at getting to the QB 7-8 times.
Of course that's just one game. I actually did that for two games, but that's still an extremely small sample size to accurately judge anything. And I fully believe that his actual pass rushes probably vary from game to game for a variety of reasons.
But as for what I really think, I think that Clark, Jones, and Mathieu bought into Spags' scheme 100% at some point last season, and now they do what they're asked. When you watch the KC defense during the BAL game, the discipline for the DL is about as high and consistent as I've ever seen, by any DL unit, period. This season we've seen Clark and Jones drop into coverage as edge rushers on the same play. We've seen Clark chase/cover TEs during games. Khalen Saunders play MLB.
Do i think that Clark would have more sacks if he simply rushed the QB on every passing play? probably. But that's not how Spags is using him, obviously. Instead, we've actually seen Clark drop into coverage on obvious passing downs. Seen him play contain on other obvious passing downs. And so on. So at least several times he's had fewer potential opportunities to try to get to the passer per game.
i know that frustrates you and those that crave sacks so badly. Even bothers me a little, tbh. But it also obviously works. Certainly there's no reasonable argument that the defense was better when we had two the the league's most prolific sack artists. In fact, these past two seasons
in all areas and statistical columns the defense is significantly better than whenever we've had a top-10 sack total, correct?