"This Guy Is Violent"- Micah Parsons On Stewart!

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(05-05-2025, 05:24 PM)ochocincos Wrote: About the only things I could think would be:
- How to better get off blocks rather than always trying to lock onto the OL and driving them back
- How to take better paths such that they can get to the QB quicker
- Better approach when hitting the QB such that it's resulting in a turnover or sack rather than them just throwing it away or still hitting a receiver despite being hurried/hit.

You just have to wonder if someone is SO GOOD at getting into the backfield and uber athletic/fast, how is that not translating into sacks, FFs, etc?

Texas A&M only had 25 sacks as a team, so it's not like someone else was getting a ton instead of SS.
Draft picks such as Nic Scourton (5.0) and Shemar Turner (2.0) had more production than SS.
Go back the year prior and Bengals' own McKinnley Jackson had more than SS (3.0 vs 1.5), along with guys like Scourton, Turner, Edge Cooper, and even Walter Nolen before he transferred.
2024 should have been the year for SS to blossom with Cooper and Nolen no longer on the team, but he really didn't.

I didn't watch much, if any, A&M football last year. Who was the other DE? If that player was not capable of getting into the backfield quickly and allowed the QB to constantly slide to that side, that might explain the lack of sacks. They won't be able to run away from Stewart with Hendrickson as RE. Whether or not Stewart gets home, he's going to be in the QB's face from the left DE and Hendrickson will be coming from the right. Add in a hopefully improved pass rush from Jenkins Jr. and I expect much better results this year.