(11-18-2019, 08:46 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote: Dude, you're comparing a former Undrafted Free Agent Abry Jones to a former 1st Round #3 Overall Pick Marcel Dareus.  

YES, I THINK WE'D ALL WANT A TOP DRAFT PICK DAREUS OVER A SUCKY UNDRAFTED ABRY JONES  ...... lol

For the record Ngata only had 2.5 sacks per season and 5 tackles for loss per season.  He was more known for plugging which allowed Ray Lewis to get a clean hit on the stalled RB.  Before drafting Ngata, Lewis complained about not having someone in the gap to take away the momentum of the opposing RBs.  In any event, we definitely need someone but I prefer to draft someone in round 3-4 to do the job.

No, I was comparing his one dimensional play to Dareus, who was multi faceted.
There were 3 consecutive years, 2010, 2011 and 2012 where Ngata had 5+ sacks per year. He definitely was able to collapse the pocket as well. Again, NT's in 3-4 schemes are asked to do much different things than what we run in a 4-3. In a 4-3 scheme, your NT's have to be more multi dimensional. Now, if you are advocating switching to a 3-4 defense and drafting that classic run plugging NT, I can probably get behind that. As far as drafting a NT in the 3rd or 4th round, you can't just simply say we'll draft one there. You have to have guys in mind that you think can be successful in that roll and hope they fall to that spot. Who would you be targeting in rounds 3-4, because this is not a deep DT class at all?

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