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Originally Posted by Alex Smith HATER
Are you seriously too obtuse to realize I am not talking about those players?
Tyson Jackson, Dontari Poe and Mike DeVito are all average as **** non game-changers, and there is absolutely no depth.
In this league you need to have at least one difference maker on the defensive line to compete with the good teams.
We have jack at D-line. I'm actually being generous stating we could be a middle of the pack D. Yet some of you insist on harboring delusions of grandeur.
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First of all, this talentless defensive line is about the same quality as the defense that ranked #12 just 2 years ago. Secondly, your obsession with the defensive line shows how little you know about Rex Ryan's defense. The Chiefs' have easily one of the best pass rushing OLB combos of any 3-4 defense. I would gladly take Houston-DeVito-Jackson-Hali over Pace-Ellis-Douglas-Thomas any day of the week, and that was the Jets' DE/OLB combos the year that defense ranked #1. Pouha is a reasonably good NT, but he wasn't anything close to elite. What we saw of Poe last year, there's no reason to believe he can't approach Pouha level play.
It's not like these D-linemen are bad. All the Ryan defense demands of these guys is versatility, and they all have it. Being able to pass rush is a nice bonus, but it's not like Ngata and Justin Bannon have been any kind of sack monsters in Baltimore. Tyson Jackson was always branded as a 3-4/4-3 hybrid, DeVito can play almost every position on the line, and Poe was scouted as a guy who could eventually do the same. Behind them, Powe is a decent enough Nose and maybe the Chiefs have something in Bailey. They could easily have a solid but unspectacular line, which is fine given the elite talent they have off the edges.
Finally, nobody has delusions that the Chiefs are a #1 defense. I said they can MAYBE crack the top 10 if Sutton coaches them well. Your idea that it is a reach to call them middle of the pack is just laughable. If the Chiefs can be top 15 behind Romeo's ultra-conservative defense, they can be top 15 behind Sutton's aggressive defense. Easily.