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Originally Posted by RunKC
Also can’t wait for the “Frank Clark set the edge? Who ****ing cares?” Argument.
I care. Bc with Justin Houston’s fat ****ing ass we gave up 177 ****ing yards on the ground to the Patriots which was a part of why we lost.
Maybe if that mother****er could stop the run like Frank did we would have won.
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Frank Clark never set the edge worth a shit. And in fact, for the VAST majority of Houston's career, his ability to stop the run was positively elite. It was the last thing to go for him here in KC. I'd acknowledge value in run defense if Frank Clark was actually good at it. He wasn't - it was just some gray area that his last supporters could glom onto that wasn't easily and obviously disproven (though large numbers have certainly done so).
Yeah, Houston played like hot garbage against NE. So did Chris Jones - what's that have to do with 2019? The DL as a whole should've been fired into the sun after that game and yet Chris Jones was very possibly our best defender in the SB. I believe you're getting a little tunnel vision as it relates to Justin Houston specifically moreover you're using the absolute worst example of him as your placeholder.
A 'replacement level' performance is not what we got from Justin Houston vs. NE. That said, we've gotten sub-replacement level from Frank Clark about 80% of his games here, including in the '19 season. Bad games happen to everyone and using Houston's worst game as a proxy (especially after he obliterated the Colts the week prior) is hardly a reasonable approach.
There are literally dozens of guys capable of doing what Frank Clark did during that run. And yeah - Justin Houston is one of them. But not the only one. That's hardly a rousing argument in favor of Frank Clark.