Paama > Ika. Bandes > Ika. Tuitele > Ika. Wright > Ika
I don't get the fan fare for Ika over dudes with more quickness and athleticism. Ika is not special. Paama is. Ika will be a one dimensional run stuffer. He reminds me of Stevie Tu'ikolovatu who coincidentally went to the same high school. He's good but he's not that good.
If you want to maybe have a chance at sacking the QB in the future, Wright is your guy, not Ika.
“He’s a one dimensional run stuffer” you do know the number 1 priority of a defense is right?
So how many of those “run stuffers” did we have in the Oregon game?
I know your answer is going to be “Greg and Levi do a fine job of that” how well do they stop the run when they have to play the whole game cuz every time we sub them out John Clark comes in the game so we’re discouraged to sub so by mid 3rd quarter our starters are downgraded to average rotational players skillset wise cuz our inability to trust our backups have fatigued our starters to the point where they’re nowhere near their ceiling which is where we need them the highest percentage of snaps, rather than say receivers who play a large volume of plays and hope that the shear volume of sample size allows them to make 3 big plays, we need DL to be at their max ceilings every snap they play so we need to rotate 6 DTs, especially in big games.
Why do I have to choose one guy over the other? You know that DL rotates the most out of any position group in the field other than WR’s who sub more on formation than fatigue.
You do know that injuries exist at a higher frequency the closer you play to the LOS? So what happens if Paama and bandes gets hurt and tuitele has to eat double teams and can’t get 1v1s cuz we have to put mosiah in or ngalu in? No one is saying they’d choose ika over wright we’d obviously like them both (besides the coaches who probably know which player the we need more based on their depth chart projections), what I’m saying is you can never have enough massive people and you can never have enough high rated DL/OL. And you know that wright would most likely add Size to his already 265 pound frame and you think he’s going to be a Von Miller tackstar on the outside WHERE OUR COACHES DONT WANT GUYS BEING A VON MILLER TRACKSTAR ESPECIALLY AT 285 POUNDS.
Lastly my favorite part.
“If we actually want to have chances at sacking the quarterback” you have to put the offense in 3rd & 7 or longer because in today’s game the name of it is to get the ball out as fast as possible and IF WE CANT STOP THE RUN ON FIRST AND SECOND DOWN LIKE STANFORD LAST YEAR AND OREGON THIS YEAR AND TEAMS HAVE 3rd & 4 OR SHORTER ALL GAME HOW THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO GET A SACK WHEN THE QUARTERBACK IS IN SHOTGUN TAKING A TWO STEP DROP? LAWRENCE TAYLOR ISNT GETTING SACKS AGAINST A SHOTGUN TWO STEP ONE READ THROW HOW THE FUCK IS STEPHON WRIGHT GOING TO DO THAT IN A SCHEME THAT DOESNT ALLOW HIM TO? stephon would probably play JJ DT and you know how those guys primarily get their sacks? Cuz the guy next to him (Vita Vea, Elijah qualls, Greg Gaines) is so big that they have to roll protection to his side with a center and guard and the 5 or 3 technique gets a 1v1 against a less athletic guard cuz the better one is occupied doubling in order to prevent inside, in the quarterbacks grill pressure which is more feared by offenses than outside pass rush. Outside pass rushers can be rolled away from, rolled towards, doubled with a TE or RB, chipped with an RB or TE, or even ran by while the quarterback calmly steps up (if there’s no inside pressure). Inside bull rushing pressure that puts the center in the quarterbacks lap is actually more conducive to getting sacks especially with our collapsing pocket scheme cuz it’s the first thing a quarterback sees and feels which speeds up his clock and makes him want to flee the pocket early leading them into, you fucking guessed it (some of you won’t cuz you wore a helmet on the bus to school every day)... outside pass rushers.
If Ika isn’t special.... why is tosh lupoi recruiting him as a primary and they don’t have any other DTs signed and only 1 crystal balled to go there?