Kemoeatu a Panther

Or maybe he does better here because he was playing in a 3-4 defense and was one of only 3 d-linemen. You've got to think that with Peppers, Rucker, and hopefully Jenkins, you'll see him get more single blockers. A 350 guy isn't fun blocking by yourself. At the very least let him just push the pocket back, sorta like a backwards O-lineman and push the QB outside where Peppers or Rucker would be waiting.

 

SOmething like that. He'll play a good amount of snaps, and I want a fat man to be fresh anyway, but the point isn't as much effectiveness over a game as that we paid a ton of money to a guy who's situational. To this point, all our defensive linemen were getting a lot of money to be every-down players, with Buckner being the one who'd come out most. To this day, Wallace doesn't play that much.

Anyway, maybe I'm oversensitive to the sack need. We really do need more consistent pressure inside, but we do have two good, light backups. We had 45 sacks this year, and had a number of contributors to that. Granted some were manufactured sacks, but one could make as much of a point that we're going to be fine there as if someone had said the same about the run.

 

maybe the idea is that the dude's a beast and can handle the run on his own - that way, the LBs can be turned loose a little? use the same kind of philosophy as the 3-4, except do it in the 4-3

 

if jenks can return 3/4 of original we are going to present serious trouble to opposing teams. you're not going up the middle on us, you can't double jenks, eatu, and peppers. you're not throwing over jenks or eatu. this shit is going to fuck some people up and eat them alive. vick is one dead ************.

 

we didn't get this guy to be a pass rusher. we got him because we play against 3 top-tier running backs in our division.

saints seem upset about it.
http://saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=195241

 

My point was that NONE of our DL are every down players. They're only going to play X snaps per game. What difference does it make if those snaps are catagorized by down? So what difference does it make if he's "situational"?

 

Actually, they are. Not literally "every snap", but Peppers, Rucker, and Jenkins were playing a very high percentage of snaps together in 02-03. To this day, even though Rucker's production has been down a little, Wallace still doesn't play that much. Carstens and Moorehead did interchange a bit, and Buck was still getting relief, but we play our starting DL a heavy amount.


It does make a difference. A guy's automatically unable to play 30% of snaps, and probably needs a breather in some other situations? Tell me Witherspoon isn't using his every-down linebacker status to his advantage right now. That Kemoeatu can't, or shouldn't, suggests that he'd have gotten a good deal more if he could, but what we paid contradicts that.

It's just a lot of money for a guy who's just a run stopper. We paid big. I'm happy with him, and what we're trying to do, but for this money, you want a guy who can at least make a stab at rushing the passer.

 

I like the signing. It was brought up earlier that he wouldn't be much of a pass rush factor. My question is what DT gets more than a handful of sacks a year anyway. The Panthers couldn't stop the run worth a damn last year and it killed us in inopportune times (Dallas, Bears regular season and Saints in week 1). Run the ball (Hartwig) and stop the run (Man eat U) and good things happen

 

did we really give this guy too much money. You have to expect that the new revenue streams and higher overall revenue percentage that will now be going to the players under the new CBA that the deals will get bigger. Who really knows what a good deal is anymore with the cao jumping year to year and now new revenues and such that will push the cap higher. Its not like you can compare the deal Kemoeatu got to any deals from previous years because the rules are different now. I not saying we didnt pay too much, we very well could have, I'm just saying at this point its pretty tough to figure out.

 

maybe so. I just have a hard time remembering a guy like this getting this much, and it's common for a team to overpay on the initial day of free agency.