(09-13-2023, 04:04 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: What's funny is the New York City boy thinks Hamilton plays like a slightly above average rotational player lol.  Glad Fatukasi is looking more healthy, hopefully while Hamilton is out he can play NT at the level he did with the Jets.  We will need it the next few weeks, especially against Atlanta.

Baalke talked about Fatukasi's prowess vs the run when we signed him  - not sure why that seems to touch a nerve with you. It's OK for the team to value getting him lots of NT snaps, you know.  As much as you want to pretend you have every nuance of the DL figured out - you clearly don't see this part clearly. 

Hamilton had good pass rush win rates last year and it helped him get re-signed - that's great - but he still didn't get home much, and he indeed was a solid rotational player for the Jags. He played in 61% of the defensive snaps or fewer in FOURTEEN games last year. Hamilton played less than 50% of the snaps in eight of those games. Call him the starter all you want, and he technically was on paper  - but he also played 3-4 End - and he also sat a lot while Fatukasi played the nose. They shared the position on the weeks when Fatukasi was healthy.

 What you read on a depth chart doesn't mean much about snap numbers. You need to pay attention to how often it has been Fatukasi gumming up the middle in run sets. 

It sucks this was supposed to be a bit of a breakout year for Hamilton and he got himself hurt off the field somehow. I hope he's back before the bye week, but it really doesn't look good.

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