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It is curious to me that a 3-4 defense is looking for rush stats from its DEs. You don't usually get many sacks from those positions.
In the middle I remember reading that Barry Cofield was among the leaders last year in pressures from the NT spot.
Perhaps the team can use a hybrid with Brandon Jenkins, Orakpo and Kerrigan all on the field on long yardage downs?
This has always been my thought; 3-4 DEs are not there to generate sacks, but to collapse the pocket and flush the qb to the pass- rushing olbs.
I thought I saw in the transcript from the Haslett interview a few days ago that they had Kerrigan line up at the DE position and brought Jenkins in as the OLB with Rak at the other OLB position in the game against the Titans. I think he even suggested that with 3 quality rush specialists like these guys, "you'd" have to line them up a few times a game.




