You don’t think it’s weird that you value the guy rushing the passer, but not the guy stopping the other teams star pass rusher? If one is important, doesn’t the other have to be?
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The reason I don't think that is weird is 1. defense > offense in importance in general, and 2. I've seen decades of IMO piss poor O Line play, OTs especially, and Favre, Rodgers, and now Love survive and thrive the great majority of the time anyway. You of all people (your namesake), I would think would want a perceived star player like him, or Reggie White or Lawrence Taylor or whoever else would be considered the GOAT pass rushers over Bakhtiari or whoever else were considered great OTs. And that's not even addressing the fact that you're likely to get a Mandarich way too big a percentage of the time.
I'll grant you that when an elite Big man (meaning down lineman) is available they go 1st after elite QBs. A true 3/4 DE is an interior DL, so I grade them similar to DT. Edge is different. But I can't argue with you that pressure up the middle is super disruptive. Its why Clark is much better when we have a lead.
I knew you and probably others in here - sacred cow worshipers, etc. would disagree hahahaha. What people can suddenly see with Love being rushed so bad, that happened all through the Rodgers years, yet we had all those 13-4 and 14-3 seasons because Rodgers escaped the rush, just as Love does most of the time now. Deny it if ya'all like, but it's pretty damn obvious. And the other, most people consider as a general case, defense to be more important - "defense wins games". Yeah, the Packers to a great extent are an exception to that, but with most teams most of the time, it ain't that way.