02-20-2016, 12:12 PM
(02-20-2016, 11:39 AM)BengalChris Wrote: Hum, he's had more than 100 tackles every year in the league and was drafted the same year as Rey Maualuga. Maualuga has only had 100 tackles once.
In 7 years, Maualuga has had 557 tackles, 4 total sacks, 6 INTs and 19 passes defended.
In 7 years, Laurinaitis has had 852 tackles, 16.5 sacks, 10 INTs and 34 passes defended.
Depending on health he could be an upgrade at the MLB spot.
Neither Laurinaitis or Maualuga are going to play for that many more years. But, from NFL games logs, Laurinaitis has started all 16 games in every one of his 7 years.
Stahp with the tackle stats.
From PFF:
"James Laurinaitis ranked 59/60 at ILB for us this year, & his highest rank since 2011 is 29th. The list of reasons for this is very long..."
"If you think the #Rams made a mistake by cutting him yesterday, you put way too much stock into the NFL's tackle stats."
Yes he like Vinnie Rey gets a lot of tackles, but that's not indicative of good LB play.
Let's break this down.
based on 2015 stats.
Snap count / (total tackles + sacks + PD + INT + FF)
Rey M was involved in 1 in 7 plays.
Laurinitis was involved in 1 in 10 plays.
He just played a lot more snaps.
VRey is 1 in 7.
Vontaze Burfict is 1 in 5
Yes Laurinitis played a lot of snaps. No they weren't exactly quality snaps.
Luke Kuechly is 1 in 5 (he's actually under 5 but rounding to whole numbers etc)
Danny Trevathan is 1 in 5
So I was wrong, he actually isn't really any better than Vincent or Rey
