It is just not simply "either/or." It's NOT Goff v. Donald.
Works like this. No matter how good your offense is the defense makes it better. Which is why the 99 Rams (6th on defense) went somewhere while the 2000 Rams (23rd on defense) didn't. Yet, if anything, the 2000 offense was better than the 99 offense.
Okay name the one position that if it is very good improves an entire defense.
Defensive tackle.
If you have one of the rarest commodities in football---an elite defensive tackle---that player will automatically draw the kind of attention that helps out the other defenders. No offense can ignore an elite DT---he is the defender closest to the initial action, and so must be controlled no matter what. And an elite tackle---talking about the genuinely rare caliber of DT like Olson,. Sapp, Randy While, Lilly, Page, Joe Greene--not only necessarily and automatically draws attention at the game plan level, they are ALSO
productive in spite of that attention.There are far more good qbs in NFL history than there are elite caliber DTs.
One guy put it this way. Some players can change the game on Sundays. Donald changes the game on MONDAYS.
You cannot scoff at that, diminish it, act like it's no big deal, downplay it. Well you can try but it will never be a good football argument.
ESPECIALLY when there is no reason on earth to believe it's either/or. The way they cap works they can pay a top qb AND pay Donald.
And they can ALSO have 6-8 more guys with top contracts too.
Virtually every single team gives half the cap to 8-10 players. Donald will be one of them when it comes to the Rams.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/2017 07:49AM by zn.
