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Originally Posted by milkman
I saw that.
He got that quick burst and got around the corner before Penn could get his hands on him and get set.
He will get a few of those, but he hasn't shown any consistency, and his best games have been playing primarily against SD and Oakland backups.
One play against a quality tackle is an aberration.
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This is the same argument I used to have with Knowmo when he was yapping about Dumerville vs. Allen (I think it was Allen anyway).
Almost no pass rushers show the consistency you think they do. Most of the big time sack artists get the bulk of their sacks in a handful of their games and are usually stonewalled by the best OLs. The truly HoF caliber guys can get theirs pretty consistently but the merely good get theirs in spurts and aren't out there wrecking Pro Bowl LTs with any regularity.
Just like the "your second round picks should be immediate starters" argument so many like to make, we have a ridiculously high bar for our own players and rarely look to their contemporaries on other teams. If Ford goes out there and gets 10 sacks, 70% of which come against average or worse tackles, then he's really just doing what relatively decent pass rushers do. He's not beating up the elite and he's not getting stoned by the shitty. He's in that squishy middle where he's good enough to play but not so good that you just write his name in ink and move along.
That's a hell of a lot better than most are willing to give him credit for.