Quote:Why do the people on this forum have a hard time understanding words? I'm saying his sack numbers were inflated by playcalling, he didn't do anything special to get those sacks, and his amount of pressures and his ability to stop the run was just as bad as it was the previous year. His 1 sack in his rookie year was far more impressive than any of his sacks this year because he beat his guy one on one, this year almost all of his sacks was him running against air. 

 

If it was that simple then all of the DE's would be getting 6-7 QB sacks a year. You totally discount the fact that if Branch didn't have the speed/ athletic ability he has, he wouldn't be able to execute what was asked of him in those situations of stunts/ or what not. 

 

You have this pigeon holed idea of what a good DE is and its archaic. 

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