One of the things that irritates me about the staff and dline choices is the drafting of small dlineman. I scratch my head in confusion and frustration when McDermott preaches about gap integrity, while we continue to trot out undersized lineman out there.
How are you supposed to keep gap integrity when you have small dlineman? Theyre just gonna get thrown around and pushed out of their gaps by bigger olineman. Specifically ones that run gap power run schemes.
I'm so off the small lineman train, personally. I hope our current lineman pan out but if I had it my way, my DEs would be 270-280, 3T would be 300-310, and 1T 320-340+ LBs. Having big boys on the dline that can clog up space and don't allow olineman to get leverage is how you keep linebackers free. IMO