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Carrington is a huge question mark in my mind. But if what the Rams brain trust can be believed he'll be on the field just as much as Brockers.mr.stlouis with a Q:
Quick question; Is Carrington really a better pass rusher than Brockers? Brock had 5.5 sacks last year, I don't know.
I disagree with your count because you arbitrarily delete players based on what you consider to be insufficient playing time. Quinn and Long didn't play that many snaps but the run D was bad when they were playing. Each member of the front 7 rotation, with the exception of Quinn, will have equal playing time according to Fisher. So yes, we were playing "starters" when our run D was sucking. Maybe not the ones you like the best but starters (members of the rotation) none the less. Of course they were also playing back ups during that period too.CoachO speaking for Fisher:
Not as simple as saying we were playing the guys who will be "starters" in that they will be part of the rotation. The ONLY 'starters" on the D-line who were on the field for anything more than a token series or two, were Eugene Sims and Alex Carrington. Chris Long played a series. Wm. Hayes didn't play a down. Quinn played only a handful of snaps, all on 3rd down pass rushing situations. Brockers and Langford didn't play a down either. So by my count, that's FIVE of the SEVEN "rotational" guys who didn't play up front.
And as far as having only one starter at LB out, its more a case of who took his place that lead to most of the issues. By having Dunbar slide to the MLB position, and now putting Armstrong on the field to stop the running game..... well you saw how that turned out.
For all those people who still want to beat the drum for Ray Ray taking over for Dunbar at the WLB, I hope you took notice. He couldn't get off blocks, and over ran plays consistently. I know its ONE preseason game. But this is the same thing that shows up in every practice.
The same thing can be said about the LB corps. Missing only one starter is missing only one starter no matter how you try to spin it.
More importantly, I think you're missing the point. What's the title of this thread?
"Should we be concerned?"
We're not talking about players that are far down in the pecking order, we're talking about starters, even if they're only part of a rotation, and players likely to start right away or become starters due to injury. To say that they shouldn't be part of the conversation when debating whether we should be concerned is to deny the possibility of injuries. When you add in the actual rotational starters the "concern" should ratchet up considerably. Chris Long sounded concerned to me. Knowing that Ray Ray is sucking so far doesn't concern you? It does me.
Let's bring this back to the first thing I said, "I'm not going to weigh in on whether we should be worried or not about our run D". I said that because I think it's too early to have a meaningful conversation about this. Much of my reasoning for saying that is because many of the things you said are true.