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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
He could've been Justin Houston and we'd have lost both of the games we lost still.
My points is that he's taking far more heat than he deserves. People are still trying to argue that Zombo is a better player and acting like the guys on the other side of the ball aren't getting paid to play this game as well. He's not a great player and isn't likely to ever be a great player, but he's been servicable and hasn't been the reason we've lost any of the games we've lost.
You see more shit thrown at him on Twitter during the game than virtually anybody else on the roster, as though getting blocked out is a mortal sin. It's just ridiculous. Hell, it's not like he was even a top 10 pick; most guys taken where he was taken AREN'T Marcus Peters. If you get a servicable player, you're doing fine.
If he had a full season worth of playing time, he'd be a 10 sack guy, IMO. That's pretty damn decent.
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DJ with another good post.
People need to be objective about this guy. Saying he only gets sacks on backups is lazy. Half of his sacks are against starters that are actually really good. And who the **** cares if he gets some sacks on backups? Like any pass rusher hasn't done that before? Remember Khalil Mack getting 5 sacks (Half of his total sack count) in Denver on a shitty RT named Schofield? Remember Houston beating up on bad OT's that were on bad teams? Every rusher gets those sacks.
People seem to forget that OL play is bad league wide.
The facts are that Ford has 3.5 sacks as a rotational player.
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28 (hurt hand)
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228 total snaps and 3.5 sacks and a fumble. That's not full time work. Houston was getting over 70 snaps a game, so Ford doing this with fewer opportunities is surprising.