It takes several years to get enough strength and technique to be effective against O-Linemen in the NFL. O-Linemen are rarely 1st or 2nd year players, the risk of failure from throwing O-Linemen in the fray is too big.

But he is improving in that role. He’s very quick and explosive off the edge, and as he learns to play with better leverage and hand placement, he’ll be a guy who can reasonably get 12-14 sacks per year playing on passing downs.

He is definitely improving, and it’s definitely encouraging how he has looked the last 3 games.

he is definitely getting better and in the future i think we will use crowder in running situations. i really like what i have seen from our whole 07 draft class. we just have to be patient with them.

one was pennington sliding and moss touching him, the other was a direct snap to brown that he ran. at least he got in the backfield, though. now that we’re rushing 4 guys(woo-hoo!), he should see more playing time, and hopefully improve. at least that is what i hope, anyway

its better than 3 and better than 5… say what?

Well, obviously better than 3, no need to elaborate there, and it is better than 5 since the best pass rushes come from the front four which frees up the back seven to be creative in coverage and get turnovers! :)

But I am getting ahead of myself. Again.

to figure it out, so maybe we are geniuses. we seem to be getting better pressure from the front 4, but i’m not sure it’s consistently enough. back to the d-line issues. we may need to send 5 on occasion, but yes, 4 would be ideal. it’s just that we don’t have an ideal front 4, obviously. but getting rid of the 3-man was brilliant, indeed. we’ll see next time we have a good lead if it has disappeared(please, god!) completely. we’ve gone from atrocious to ok, which is improvement in my book. next up; good!