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LMU93
He is a strong, classic high motor guy who has improved every year.
All true. He may also be a bit faster than assumed.
However, I was thinking of this. I wonder how long he was hurt last season before they finally IRed him. It makes a difference.
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. The Rams monitored Longacre’s back injury all season long and eventually like Greg Zuerlein it became too much to the point where Longacre would need to go under the knife and have surgery.
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He had 4 sacks in the first 7 games and then just 1.5 after that. Was he struggling with the back in the next 7 games he played? (He had 14 total starts).
First look at the total snaps. ML had 377 defensive snaps last year. With 5.5 sacks, his sack percentage was 1.459%.
What are starter’s snaps for OLBs in this D? Barwin had 658, Quinn had 634, and if you split the difference, it’s 646. So with that sack percentage on 646 snaps that would would (hypothetically) mean 9 sacks for Longacre. (This is not a prediction, it's just getting a sense of things.)
Initially, though, after the 1st 7 games of the season, he had 4 sacks on 175 snaps, which is a sack percentage of 2.28%. Across 646 snaps that would be 14-15 sacks.
What happened to him in the next 202 snaps, where he gets only 1.5 sack? So again was he playing hurt long before they put him on IR? It's possible.
And all of this is speculative.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2018 01:37PM by zn.
