Jaworski on Saints draft

WhoDat · 04-29-2004, 07:00 AM

If you guys think that a couple of good ends equates to a great pass rush, you\'re nuts. A good rush requires pressure from your DTs also... and LBs... Corner fires... safeties... different looks... keeping the O-line off balance not knowing where the rush is coming from. Good ends help, but a good pass rush is more a function of system than personnel. Now we\'ve got Will Smith and all of a sudden we\'re going to have this incredible pressure? Right, b/c Howard and Grant were a couple of bums last season. Oh, but Howard was hurt right? Bottom line, Willie Whitehead, the forgotten man in all this, was fierce in Howard\'s absence. He\'s maybe the most physically tuned of all of them. Our DEs were fine last season. Now we have 4 maybe 5 capable players at a position that never requires more than 2 be on the field at once. This isn\'t like WR or CB. You get 2 guys, no more, no less.

04-29-2004, 07:00 AM	#11
WhoDat 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 5,631	Jaworski on Saints draft If you guys think that a couple of good ends equates to a great pass rush, you\'re nuts. A good rush requires pressure from your DTs also... and LBs... Corner fires... safeties... different looks... keeping the O-line off balance not knowing where the rush is coming from. Good ends help, but a good pass rush is more a function of system than personnel. Now we\'ve got Will Smith and all of a sudden we\'re going to have this incredible pressure? Right, b/c Howard and Grant were a couple of bums last season. Oh, but Howard was hurt right? Bottom line, Willie Whitehead, the forgotten man in all this, was fierce in Howard\'s absence. He\'s maybe the most physically tuned of all of them. Our DEs were fine last season. Now we have 4 maybe 5 capable players at a position that never requires more than 2 be on the field at once. This isn\'t like WR or CB. You get 2 guys, no more, no less.
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