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Florida_Ram
Nobody on this board or any NFL sites has produced any solid evidence of how he's taken over several games and was the primary reason that Rams won those games.
That;s because that;'s not how you judge a DT like Donald. Doing that is like judging qbs by the number of interceptions they catch.
Here's another list of DTs who did not single handedly win games for their teams. Lilly, Olson, Page, Sapp, Randle, Randy White, Joe Greene, Cortez Kennedy, Klecko, and so on.
Elite DTs don't operate by regularly winning games single-handedly.
They operate by (1) forcing offenses to account for them on every play at the gameplan level, and (2) making plays anyway, at a high level. See what that does is make things easier for the rest of the defense. Only elite DTs do both things, and they are rare.
There;s a reason for that. No offense can allow defensive disruption in the middle of the formation, that close to the ball. The whole play is dead if they can't control that area.
So they have to commit resources to it no matter what. It changes the entire numbers game.
The opposite of that is what Kromer does. Kromer says for the record that guard is more valuable to him that tackle because he wants a clean pocket and power in the running game. He needs OGs who stone defenders at the LOS. This solidifies everything else they're trying to do.
If you listed all the top, elite qbs and all the top, elite LOTs in NFL history, each list would be longer than the list of top, elite DTs. In fact they;re rightfully legendary. If I rattled off a list of the top offensive tackles in NFL history, there would be names a lot of fans would not immediately recognize. My list of top elite DTs? Everyone knows who they all are.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2017 03:53PM by zn.
