Armistead and Rankins

jeanpierre · 02-06-2018, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by AsylumGuido

Too many people are fixated upon numbers. Numbers do not tell the whole story. Look at Scott Shanle. He was voted by teammates the Saints defensive MVP in 2008 with only 87 total tackles, two sacks and five passes defended. His job was to channel to the inside and he excelled at that.

It's how well you do your job that is important. Rankins job for most of the season was to occupy two blockers and he did that quite well.

So he's a two gap nose tackle? That's not what I remember reading when we drafted him...

Look I think it's way too soon to cut bait with him, but he's not splitting double teams as advertised...

02-06-2018, 10:07 AM	#14
jeanpierre Site Donor 2018 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Thibodaux Posts: 43,543 Blog Entries: 39	Re: Armistead and Rankins Originally Posted by AsylumGuido Too many people are fixated upon numbers. Numbers do not tell the whole story. Look at Scott Shanle. He was voted by teammates the Saints defensive MVP in 2008 with only 87 total tackles, two sacks and five passes defended. His job was to channel to the inside and he excelled at that. It's how well you do your job that is important. Rankins job for most of the season was to occupy two blockers and he did that quite well. So he's a two gap nose tackle? That's not what I remember reading when we drafted him... Look I think it's way too soon to cut bait with him, but he's not splitting double teams as advertised...

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