02-24-2016, 09:45 PM
(02-23-2016, 10:24 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Fairly was health ;last year but played less than 40% of the snaps for the Rams. He had 29 tkls and 0.5 sack. In 2014 he had a total of 14 tackles and 1 sack.
He is all hype and no production.
Using the last 2 seasons is a little deceptive when you leave out that...
1. In 2015, Fairley was the 3rd DT in a rotation with incumbents Aaron Donald and Michael Brockers. While the rotation hurt his bulk stats, he did rank 1st among DTs with fewer than 500 snaps by PFF.
2. Fairley missed half of the 2014 season and fought through injury the whole season.
I'm not saying we should sign him (I'm with RRL on drafting a DT and signing Trevathan), but it always irks me when folks try to make free agents sound worse simply because they're a FA. Fairley is a good player.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
