(02-11-2018, 03:36 PM)JNev Wrote: I'd like to see them give Fowler more PT next year, especially as Calais ages more. He clearly didn't have much left in the tank in the playoffs, so giving him ore rest and Fowler more PT could be the best of both worlds

Ok I didn't want to throw any cold water on Calais because I do love him, but I think that if you look at the numbers there is some stuff to be worried about. As I already hinted at, his overall pressure number was not otherworldly so we should already expect a dip in sacks next year. When you look deeper though, he had 9 of his sacks against the abysmal Texans and Colts olines (10 if you throw in the Bengals abomination of an oline). He only had 4.5 sacks in the other 14 games. I don't think him wearing out was the problem.

I think he'll still be a very good player for us because he contributes a lot more than just a pass rush to our team, but it kind of reeks of the Bobby McCray 10 sack season where we all thought we had found a new franchise pass rusher but it turns out like 8 of those came against the worst of the worst olines too. Campbell's career sack lines have wavered in the 6-8 range every other year of his career and I think it's more fair to him to expect that type of high single digit sacks going forward as opposed to the outlier that was this season.

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