Sunshinepacker
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First of all, he has NOT been getting "plenty of pleasure". He has 2 sacks in 3 games so far, hardly "plenty of pressure". OLB Justin Houston from KC has 7.5 so far, now THAT is pressure. What you have said in NOT the "winning strategy", it called the same OL' **** over and over from capers. And how can you even say " let perry figure it out"....wtf?? So, by that...CM3 and his plenty of pressure is just supposed to wait around till someone "figures it out" ? No friggin way. What you said makes NO sense. I played football for 12 years, if you have a LB that could get mad pressure and had play reading skills like CM3 does, you let that mad man come at the enemy from where ever HE wants to. Keeping him in the same spot allows the other teams TE,RB or whom ever is designated to help block him....and with our weak pass rush, nobody else has been getting to the QB or even much pressure.
A few things. First, sacks do not tell the whole story, otherwise Matthews was terrible in 2011 (which he wasn't). Second, you're ignoring the impact that Matthews moving around would have on developing players like Neal and Perry. While I normally would be of the opinion that you don't sacrifice production from a great player to help a lesser player, leaving Matthews in one spot most of the time doesn't appear to hurt his game. So far this year he has rushed the passer from either side at the same ratio that he did last year, and it didn't hurt his game last year. I just think the whole defense is better served by letting Perry settle into one position without overloading him.