It blows my mind that there is actually a school of thought that believes we should hand Clifton, who's had both knees operated on and has had multiple other surgeries in recent memory, the starting job uncontested.
I still lay the over/under for complete games played by Clifton this season at 8.5. Make the man earn his job.
Hell, make Tauscher earn his too.
I'm still pissed we're rolling into our offseason program with these two as our penciled-in starters.
"Wade" wrote:
Thank you.
+1
"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:
+1 too.
One other point. We do not---and cannot--- run to the left side. I recently posted the stats from football outsiders pointing out the HUGE discrepancy between our runs to the left and right. We also sucked (relatively speaking) when we ran to the right (outside). We were near the bottom of the league when we ran either outside Cliffy or between Cliffy and Colledge.
Well, one might ask, how the hell did our run game do as well as it did, then?
Interestingly, we were the BEST IN THE NFL running between Wells and Sitton.
Now ask yourself this...What is one of THE most effective ways of slowing down the outside pass rush of a premier DE/OLB?
Run at him.