You mean like the NBA did to keep the Lakers from getting Paul?
um...yup.
Pretty sure if the Rams already had Quinn, Suh and Long... and nobody had taken Donald when the Rams were picking...
somehow, someway... the Rams would have been redirected from taking Donald. Can't imagine the NFL letting us have a DL like THAT. Heck, we may have one better essentially because Brockers is growing into his beast of a body and HE is playing so dang well that Fairley can't crack the starting lineup. So, if Brockers is keeping Fairley in sub-packages, then hot damn, we may have that level of DL anyway. Mwahahaha!
I'm not the biggest Suh fan, but he's a beast. And for all of his issues, I think he gets crapped on for retaliating and the folks who start crap with him get off scott free. That down block by Dietrich-Smith of the Packers that could have broken Suh's back was criminal. That's the one where Suh twisted at the last minute even though Dietrich-Smith was continuing to block WAY after the whistle and after all that garbage, THEN stomped him.
What do we remember? The stomp. And OH, what a piece of crap Suh is? Bullcrap. If you watched that game, you'd have seen that the Packers were playing ridiculously dirty the entire freaking game. And they were doing it on purpose because they knew that Suh at some point would blow. The upside for the Packers is that the refs weren't calling any of the dirty stuff (they rarely do call dirty stuff against OL), so even if Suh didn't blow, the Packers got to take free shots at him all game.
Retaliating isn't good, but dammit, I'm sick and tired of the instigators who get away with crap. The NFL has a wicked bad case of "little sister" syndrome when it comes to this.
Anyway, it looks like we may have a line just as good with the ascendance of Brockers and Fairley to insert in sub packages along with Westbrooks, Sims and Hayes as depth.
Seriously, if our Run Defense can be stingy and our DBs can hold up, we're looking at the beginning of something special here...
