Quote:My point is that I'm not so sure we have two good pass rushers yet. Dante is a good overall player, sure, but as a pass rusher he has 4 total hurries this season (which isn't really a bad number that's 59th in the league)...but 3 of them have been unblocked. Yannick has 6 and I can't recall any of them being free rushes, but maybe one of them was that I can't remember exactly.


I do think that we have two good young defensive ends, one of which is a good pass rusher and the other one is just a good all around player but a bit subpar in pass rushing.


Also, Malik is 2nd in the entire league in hurries with 9, behind only Aaron Donald. Impressive.

I think the above his where you run into problems with other ppl on this board. Numbers is not going to tell the whole story. There are too many individual barriers happening each play for advanced metrics to be independently accurate. Furthermore, metrics present too many anomalies with players playing above the numbers. For whatever the numbers are on Dante, he is being schemed to have an impact. Is he getting home every play? No. As the coverage tightens and we are able to play with a lead that forces teams to throw, he going to get home. We've already seen he has bad intentions; he wants game-altering plays. I'm sure you've seen the quote about him being surprised Yannick didn't score on the pick. Long term he may even prove to be more dangerous than Ngakoue, since he can be lined up at multiple spots on the dline.


Football, to a degree, will always remain somewhat unscientific in the same ways a street fight is always somewhat unscientific.

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