Keeping The Edge: How The Big 12′s Edge Mismatch Will Dictate The Season

Posted by Barking Carnival on July-15-2010 Add Comments

If you want to understand one of the primary reasons that the league will take a on a decidedly defensive slant in 2010 compared to years previous, perform this simple exercise:

Open a Word doc or take out a piece of Dukes of Hazzard stationery.

Make two columns.

There are 24 offensive tackles in this league and 24 edge rushers (3-4 OLBs or 4-3 DEs) to oppose them.

List #1

1. List out all of the elite Offensive Tackles in this league. Your page should still be blank.
2. List out all of the quality Offensive Tackles in this league. You should have around 6.
3. Still a pesky 18 Offensive Tackle spots remaining. Hmm….

List #2...

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