Pettine a Mistake for Browns
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Assuming a personnel shift to the 3-4:I guess I'm not familiar with Cleveland's defensive personnel but the Bills did have the NFL Defensive ROY, a Pro Bowl FS and 3 Pro Bowl defensive lineman in 2013. Only Dareus was a first time Pro Bowler so if your personnel is better than that you guys should have at least 6 guys playing Sunday in Hawaii. Granted the Pro Bowl voting is somewhat reputation based but Cleveland's personnel is "much better"? Really?
Mingo, Sheard and Kruger would all start at OLB for Buffalo.
Rubin would be a heavy rotational player on the interior, he's best suited as a 2 gap lineman.
Haden would start over any corner you have, Gilmore included.
Ward would start over Jim Leonhard.
Conversely:
Byrd would start over Gipson.
Gilmore would start over Skrine, easily.
M. Williams would be a rotational OLB, as he didn't prove to transition well in 2011 in Houston before his injury.
K. Williams and Dareus would be solid DE's.
Kiko Alonso would start over any ILB on our roster, Jackson included.
It more or less is a wash. You have great players at positions of need for us, we have great players at positions of need for you. Not to discredit the Bills defense, because they're loaded with talent...but so are we.
On offense, there's no comparison. We have Gordon, Thomas, Mack and Cameron. You have literally everything else. Any one of you wideouts would start opposite Gordon. Any RB you have would start for us. Any guard you have would start for us. Your practice squad QB could start for us.
I, for one, love Jeff Tuel.
M. Williams would be a rotational OLB, as he didn't prove to transition well in 2011 in Houston before his injury.
He had 5 sacks in less than 5 full games. He transitioned well enough.
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M. Williams would be a rotational OLB, as he didn't prove to transition well in 2011 in Houston before his injury.
He had 5 sacks in less than 5 full games. He transitioned well enough.
He had 5 sacks in less than 5 full games. He transitioned well enough.
And 10 tackles and only 1 pass defended. The OLB position isn't all about sacks. 3-4 OLB's are asked to do more than 4-3 DE's.
Jabaal Sheard played in half the Browns snaps, roughly equal to 8.5 games and recorded double Williams' tackles and 4 times as many passes defended, and he's not nearly the best OLB on our team.
Williams is a great DE. But he's not nearly as good when asked to stand up.
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