(11-27-2023, 02:32 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(11-27-2023, 02:24 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: FWIW - even thought it is completely counter to my assertion we need help rushing the interior - Fatukasi and RRH had their best days of the season in win rates yesterday. (23% and 18% respectively) Those are good numbers.

There was a backup guard in the game - but how these guys (and Hamilton if back) play down the stretch will be big in terms of whether this area gets attention in the offseason.

I don't think any of our linemen are the true Nose that we need. Fatukasi is more 43 DT playing at the 295 or so he is now and the other two are more prototypical 34 ends. If you're committed to a 34 then your 3 linemen should be a combined 975 pounds with a boulder of a man in the middle. Remember when the ravens had The Goose and Ted Washington out there? That's how you play that 34 the right way. Our guys just aren't that big and it shows when the double team flows both Foley and RRH right out of the middle play after play.

We need a Casey Hampton, Vince Wilfork type to anchor the middle. Just don't see very many guys like that anymore. Like NYC said, unicorns. We could maybe try and get a guy in the draft like that but it's too early for all of that right now projection wise. 

That kid Sweat from Texas though is good with leverage, and whipping double teams. We need that for sure. He has the right size. He's pushing over 350 pounds easily. If I could only have one of those guys in this draft? He would be the pick. 

Guys like Williams out of OSU and Stackhouse out of Georgia will get more attention because they play for the bigger programs but Sweat just seems more active and disruptive every time I see him in a game.

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