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Originally Posted by planetdoc
http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/article...7-7a807cd84f07
REID: “Yeah I like the thirty-four. I like some of the things that it gives you. In particular, once you drop the nose and fire yourself into a nickel situation you use those guys as rush and drop guys. It allows you to be a little creative with some of your blitz packages.
Again, the sub packages are what we run most of the time. I don't know how many times I have to tell you that. It's like talking to a brick wall.
They didnt exactly play the same positions. Although hageman played all over, most of his snaps were at nose.
Hageman was counted on to provide pressure and disruption on run plays just as much as Donald was. Pretty poor excuse for his lack of production.
The chiefs already use Bailey and Catapano as situational pass rushers .They are about the same weight as Donald. Maybe Howard, Bailey, or Catapano can become an everydown DE....I dont know. I dont think they are there yet.
Sure, they use Bailey and Catapano in those roles, but they are mostly ineffective pass rushers and are too easily neutralized. That's like saying we don't need to draft a Free Safety, we already have Kendrick Lewis; or, we don't need a WR, we already have Donnie Avery/Jenkins/Wessler.
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Yeah, we don't need this, not at all.
Look when Florida State tries to double team Donald, he's just too quick for them.
This won't help our run defense at all, no way. He has to hold up blockers and wait for our LBs to make the play, not disrupt the play himself by demolishing the double team of two much bigger players. Btw, that's what you call being a play making DT and not just a space eater. Before you ask, yes he can hold his own ground when he actually does get blocked as well and is pretty strong at the point of attack, especially for a guy his size.
Keep in mind, these aren't flashes, he does this kind of thing on a routine basis. He's more polished than Geno Atkins was coming out of college in part because he studied Atkins' game in the NFL and applied it to his own, which allowed him to increase his production even more as a senior despite facing better competition and more double teams than before. Every offensive coordinators knows to look out for Donald and game plans against him but no one was able to shut him out.
Now, use your imagination for a second, though you don't seem to have one, and think about how good our pass rush can be once you have this lineup (nickel and dime packages to be exact, which take up about 60% of our defensive snaps):
Hali - - - Poe - - Donald - - - Houston.
At least one of these guys will be guaranteed a 1 on 1 battle and maybe as many as 3 of them if the offense doesn't keep in an extra blocker.
Poe will take the attention of the LG and C, leaving Donald alone vs a typically less mobile/athletic RG. Houston will be facing the RT with possibly a TE chipping him, or it will be Hali facing a chip block/double team.
This would be Poe getting double teamed, Hali and Houston locked up on the outside, and Donald facing a 1 on 1.
If you draft Aaron Donald, this type of pressure in the middle is all but guaranteed, especially with the success of smaller guys like Atkins and Melton (recent), Randle, Sapp, etc. in the history of the league. Donald's combination of athleticism, quickness, power, and technique is too good to not translate to NFL success. He checks off everything in the box except for one thing, his height. His arm length of 32 5/8" is actually fine for an interior DL player and fringe for a 5-tech.