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"He can change a game," said Paul Posluszny of Stroud. "When we've got a guy like that who is able to control the line of scrimmage like he is able to especially inside, it's really going to help us out, especially the linebackers. It's going to be two different worlds having a guy like him up front controlling the line of scrimmage." http://buffalobills.com/news/news.jsp?news_id=6208
Was POz talking about Stroud in the past or what he saw at OTA's? Hopefully it's the latter.
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Encouraging stat on Stroud
July 9, 2008 Posted By: Chris Brown | Time: 4:41 PM ET | Link
ENCOURAGING STAT ON STROUD: Granted John Henderson has had just as much to do with Jacksonville's run defense ranking in recent years as Marcus Stroud, but what encourages me most about the potential leap Buffalo's run defense can take is the history of Jaguars run defense rankings with Stroud on the roster.
Since 2001 (Stroud's rookie season) the Jags have ranked 10th, 25th, 2nd, 11th, 14th, 4th and 11th against the run. Over those seven years the average ranking is 11th. Knowing the Bills are just getting Stroud, and not Stroud and Henderson I still believe Buffalo's run defense should be in the top half of the league.
The key is Stroud staying healthy. Can he do it?
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A realistic run defense ranking
July 9, 2008 Posted By: Chris Brown | Time: 4:31 PM ET | Link
A REALISTIC RUN DEFENSE RANKING: After ranking 25th and 28th the past two years against the run, and now adding Stroud, Johnson and Mitchell to the front seven, what is a reasonable run defense ranking to expect from the Bills assuming they don't incur a rash of injuries similar to that of last year?
Looking over the last seven seasons the greatest increase in ranking from one year to the next for Buffalo occurred in 2003 when Buffalo improved from 29th against the run to 8th in the league. That's a jump of 21 spots. It was also the offseason when they added Takeo Spikes (veteran LB) and Sam Adams (veteran DT) among others.
Adding Mitchell and Stroud looks to be a similar approach. I don't know if jumping 21 spots in the run defense rankings from 25th to 4th is realistic, but I definitely think they have a chance to fall between 12 and 15 provided Stroud stays healthy. Think it's possible?
Obviously, Strouds health is still a questionmark. I hope the run D's improvement isn't solely dependent on Stroud. Obviously Spencer is the bac up plan and Dick better make sure there's no drop off.
Spencer seems to be this year Tripplett. Triplett did an awsome job coming off the bench with the colts which is why we hired him only to find out, he's not starter material. Spencer did the same with the Vikes .
It's tough to predict. The additions of Stroud and Johnson plus the return of Poz should help significantly. But we still have Schobel on the outside lining up 8 yards from the ball and Kelsay on the other side and if Stroud gets injured, it could get bad again.
Assuming everything goes well, I could see us breaking 20 on D, and MAYBE breaking into the top half of the league. There's no way this is a top 10 D yet.
I expect us to be in the 10 - 15 overall range, but if Stroud is close to 100% and plays motivated we could be in the 5 - 10 range even though we still don't have a DE that can play the run consistently.
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