07-10-2015, 02:05 AM
Geathers was far from the worst DE in the league last year. There is more to playing DE than sacks.
As to why our DL was not up to snuff last season, there were other reasons:
a) Geno not being Geno
b) Combination of injury issues and rookies not being ready leading to lack of rotation on the DL. This directly led to players like Gilberry and Peko wearing down and losing effectiveness.
c) Guenther's scheming last season was really vanilla especially on the DL. The vast majority of the time he had them just lining up and firing straight off the ball. No twists, stunts, shifts or anything to try to confuse the opposing offense. Note the one game Guenther actually did have the DL do those they had their best game of the season (Denver).
If Clarke can even be a solid rotational DE it gives the DL a big lift as it puts us closer to having our rotation back.
As to why our DL was not up to snuff last season, there were other reasons:
a) Geno not being Geno
b) Combination of injury issues and rookies not being ready leading to lack of rotation on the DL. This directly led to players like Gilberry and Peko wearing down and losing effectiveness.
c) Guenther's scheming last season was really vanilla especially on the DL. The vast majority of the time he had them just lining up and firing straight off the ball. No twists, stunts, shifts or anything to try to confuse the opposing offense. Note the one game Guenther actually did have the DL do those they had their best game of the season (Denver).
If Clarke can even be a solid rotational DE it gives the DL a big lift as it puts us closer to having our rotation back.
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