Sheldon Rankins has chance to be more effective than Nick Fairley

hagan714 · 07-08-2017, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by jeanpierre

Another one of several issues I had with giving Fairley an extension was that I felt both he and Rankins were the same position...

And that posed a road block of sorts to Rankins being able to justify his high selection in the draft last season...

I understood they were used together on passing plays quite a bit, but we really need that massive NT to tye up two interior blockers...

And that'd allow Rankins to be our Aaron Donald type of disrupting 3-tech shortening that clock for the opposing offense to get a play off...

With two disrupters, if one gets hot, then they could simply swing their protection over to the hot pass rusher...

With the big NT, if you tried to pass-block him with just a center, you could potentially get your quarterback killed Jim Burt style...

Yep we need a run stuffing, block eating NT that can push the pocket and free him up.

Lotulelei Star is to Kawann Short

as

???????? is to Sheldon Rankins

Rankins will only be as good as the players around him.

07-08-2017, 04:17 PM	#8
hagan714 LB Mentallity Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 15,870 Blog Entries: 68	Re: Sheldon Rankins has chance to be more effective than Nick Fairley Originally Posted by jeanpierre Another one of several issues I had with giving Fairley an extension was that I felt both he and Rankins were the same position... And that posed a road block of sorts to Rankins being able to justify his high selection in the draft last season... I understood they were used together on passing plays quite a bit, but we really need that massive NT to tye up two interior blockers... And that'd allow Rankins to be our Aaron Donald type of disrupting 3-tech shortening that clock for the opposing offense to get a play off... With two disrupters, if one gets hot, then they could simply swing their protection over to the hot pass rusher... With the big NT, if you tried to pass-block him with just a center, you could potentially get your quarterback killed Jim Burt style... Yep we need a run stuffing, block eating NT that can push the pocket and free him up. Lotulelei Star is to Kawann Short as ???????? is to Sheldon Rankins Rankins will only be as good as the players around him. Rugby Saint II likes this.

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