(04-03-2024, 02:17 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(04-03-2024, 09:08 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: I think they hope to get Armstead involved in around 35% of the snaps and reap 6 or 7 sacks and 25-30 pressures from that work.

We sorely missed that kind of disruption from any of the interior guys last year.

My concern is who he will be lining up with inside?

Hamilton is a health and conditioning mystery, RRH disappointed last year after getting paid, Fatukasi fizzled and became a cap cut, Gotsis and Ledbetter are rotational depth, not guys you want getting 40% of your snaps.  This team needs another sure-fire IDL starting quality player IMO.

I'm a little worried about Armstead's health.  I read somewhere that he has plantar fasciitis, and it's not fixable, and therefore, he will inevitably miss some games.  If he's our only addition to the defensive line, then we haven't done much to fix the defensive line.

Yeah. Hoping they're eyeing Ruke Orhorhoro in RD2 and Gabe Hall in RD5 personally for this reason with Armstead. Hopefully they learned their lesson from last year when they were entering the regular season down Hamilton and Smoot. 

We have to have better rotational players and depth this year or we'll be getting dinked and dunked to death in the secondary just like last year because there's just too much time for QB's to thrive from the pocket.

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