Originally posted by Steve
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My only point about Orakpo is that he will likely get the most money of all OLBs, even if it is from his own team. I understand your point about supply and demand and agree that that could increase the amount paid for Worilds.
All I can say about Freeney's hurries is that they were largely worthless for us. Previously, I think it was you that made an interesting point about a possible synergistic effect being created with both Ingram and Freeney on the field (which we have yet to see). I don't know if that will be the case or not. All I can say with certainty is that we had a huge percentage of hurries/pressure early in the season this past year, but we had zero turnovers and QBs were torching us. Freeney's statistical hurries did nothing for us.
The stat is defined by having a QB reset his feet. That often means nothing. QBs slide their feet all the time without losing anything in terms of focus and passing mechanics. Freeney's time with us this past season absolutely proved that point--lots of pressures, minimal positive team defensive results.
Regarding pass and run defense, I have already performed the exercise you have suggested. Neither run defense, nor pass defense presents a great correlation because you usually need both because teams will exploit your weakness if you only have one. Additionally, you keep focusing on total rush yards. That does not tell us who defends the run the best. YPC against is a much more telling stat. The run defense of a team might be sensational, but they might give up more total rushing yards because their pass defense is comparatively worse or their team's offense is comparatively worse, creating more rushing opportunities for their opponents. The greater yards against isn't an indication of a worse rushing defense in those instances.
Further, you have been all over this thread talking about FA OLBs being overpriced. Now you are saying that we need to focus our assets on OLBs and CBs.
I want to draft those two positions as a general rule because there is not the positional scarcity that there is with the NT position. The positional scarcity at NT dictates getting good ones when you can. You have to understand that the drop off between the #1 NT available and the #2 NT available is huge in both FA and the draft, whereas the drop off between any one OLB or CB and the next best one is much smaller at every level. So get the good NT and the very slightly worse CB/OLB as opposed to getting a barely better CB or OLB and a much worse NT. That way you have the best combined group of players.
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