Starters who are Weak Links

[Joelist]

I'm not so sure I buy into the "Peko is done" idea. Unfortunately what has happened this year is that Sims has missed a goodly amount of time and so once again we don't have a full DL rotation available. Peko has been good when called on and we have to remember what his role is on the line - he is the NT in a 4-3 alignment. Plus, (and I think we have a post somewhere in the forums about this) when you look at opponent yards per carry by where on the DL the play runs the spots covered by the DTs are actually pretty good. It is the spots covered by the DEs and especially RDE (IIRC) that were scandalous.

In other words, we're not getting killed by runs up the gut but by runs to the outside gaining the edge.