Amobi Okoye Has a Sore Knee

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Originally Posted by Joshua

This is a big year for Amobi. I realize he's young and DTs take a while to develop but we have to start getting more from him or he needs to see his playing time reduced.

There is one thing that I wish some reporter would ask Kubiak. I think it was Mario who finally divulged that the DL was basically instructed to read and react rather than attack. I want to know if this was their first choice in defensive philosophy or one born out of necessity. I also would like to know when they decided to implement this philosophy. The reason I ask is if this was already our ingrained DL philosophy before Amobi's draft, why draft him? Putting him in a read and react defense negates the only trait that made him a first rounder; namely, quickness to shoot the gap. There seems as though there may have been a disconnect between defensive philosophy and drafting players who could implement it. I would really like to see a better explanation of these sorts of things from Kubiak because right now, it looks like we drafted a gap shooter who's not particularly strong at the point of attack and then forced him to play to his weaknesses.

I have a feeling keeping the OL off Ryans was a major reason for the read react scheme. If the DL is penetratring then the LB do not have the ability to flow. They must all have lanes and they must cover their lane. Plus we have not had a big run stuffing safety, so that also most likely came in to play.