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Read the second article.
Here is a quote from the article "A key cog in the "cold front" is veteran Kyle Williams. He may be more important to the defensive line unit than anyone else.
As I have covered in the Linebacker study, through the first six games the defensive unit surrendered 87 rushing yards a game. After his injury, the defense was gashed for 121 yards a game. Dareus went from 5th in stop percentage (12.3%) when Kyle was in the lineup to 11th with 9.5%. According to Pro Football Focus (PFF), Stops constitute a "loss" for the offense therefore run stop percentage is the percentage of run defense snaps where the player made a stop. Mario's run stop percentage went from 4.3% to 1.7% once Kyle was out of the lineup, while Jerry's went up from 5.9% to 8.1%. The constant double teams of Dareus seemed to help Jerry more than others, primarily because he typically was lined up at Rush LB (play-making position)." He is a better run defender than everyone thinks.
I agree with you that the biggest fault of our defensive problems was Rex I was reading an article yesterday about coach Wade Phillips and how good coaches adjust their system to the players and not the other way around. It's a sad deal because I hate to see the defense getting rebuild once again, like many other posters have complained about the rebuilding process I am tired to be in rebuilding mode every year.
It seems like one year is the defense the other the offense and so on and on and on.