Khalid Kareem poached

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(11-22-2022, 09:57 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I don't know about that. 

Last year, on 165 snaps, Kareem had 4 total pressures, 12 tackles with 2 misses and 7 stops.
This year, on 178 snaps, Ossai has 10 total pressures, 6 tackles with 0 misses and 4 stops. 

I'm really rooting for the guy but he doesn't show a lot. I'm often surprised at the number of snaps he and Carter get in the stat sheet because I see so little of them during the game.

From my memory, Kareem wasn't labeled as a pass rush specialist and only cost them a 5th round pick.
Ossai is supposed to be a pass rusher but cost them a valuable high 3rd round pick when they desperately needed o-linemen. That's my biggest hang up with him and his lack of productivity at this point. They already had two starters in newly signed Hendrickson and were in negotiations to extend Hubbard. They spent their high third rounder(Ossai) and high fourth rounder(Sample) on scheduled backup DEs before drafting a developmental T in Smith. All they had added to a QB killing, shit o-line at that point was Rieff on a one year deal and Jackson ***ing Carman from the day before. I thought, "He must've been too good to pass up. He needs to improve the pass rush immediately to prove that he's worthy of a draft slot that high." 

Getting a sack against the Falcons near the tail end of a blowout is pace for two or three sacks a year and that's not improving the pass rush. Until he shows something in an important game, like Kareem has already done, he's a bust that should have been an o-lineman. All we heard was Chase or Sewell. Basically "Tremendous Athlete vs Glaring Need". Nowhere in there was it anything like Chase or Sewell and then FINALLY get a couple of backup DE because that's pretty much all he and Sample have shown themselves to be.