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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
I wonder if people will fail to fully appreciate his impact this year. Seems like a lot of people, not just fans, are focusing on the stat line 4 tackles 1 for a loss, and automatically writing it off as a poor performance. Will he play better, I have no doubt. But at the same time he's never going to put up gaudy numbers that jump off the stat sheet. I thought his impact was felt on the short yardage stops we had.
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If he averages a sack every two games, and we can hold the league's best run offense to 30 yards below their last year's average(Giants w/ 120 or so yds sunday), then we are getting what paid for. His numbers probably will never jump out. I saw him pushing the pocket, i saw one of the leagues best downhill runners be denied the 1 gap almost all game. What i didn't see was anyone else on the defense take advantage of his pressure. Where was Orakpo? Oh i remember, sitting on his heels scared.