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Originally Posted by Direckshun
Completely agree. And even good DTs will disappear for games and when you get a bad game out of a DT, it really kills your squad. You're just flushing money down the toilet.
But he never has one. His games are all plus games.
He's just a special athlete and I can't help but plug the Chiefs to draft DT every year in the 1st to help him out, but the risks are just always going to be there.
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I'm probably not going 1st at DT often but it does make me wonder why it's such a devalued postion, or at least seems to be. I keep wanting us to approach it how we're approaching DBs and DEs - just throw numbers at it to make sure there's at least enough rotation.
The obvious answer is we, like a lot of teams, are loading up at DE and CB and so there's not the space for a collection of DTs. Maybe the other argument is just that BECAUSE the attrition rate is so high you're best going cheap FA. Maybe another factor is that because it's hard to draft, because there are so few quality pass-rushing DTs and fewer ways to win inside, it's a bigger gamble in the draft.
I dunno, I can talk myself into devaluing it, but then I think "quickest route to the QB" and see Jones' impact and it's hard not to imagine even just one other guy offering half of that, a quarter, whatever, and rotating in.