I am excited about the potential upside of DT Phidarian Mathis

[Charles Romes]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBill said:

The Commanders had to make the tough calls because Mathis rarely won individual matchups at the heart of the trenches. More often than not, the 312-pounder was dominated, like on this rep against New York Giants second-year center John Michael Schmitz, highlighted by Nick Falato of SB Nation’s Big Blue View.

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John Michael Schmitz adjusted well to the late shift and finished his block with authority on this 5-yard Singletary run.

Great timing to establish a leverage advantage as Phidarian Mathis attempted to work play-side.

Good aggressive finish by the second year center.

10:06 am · 4 Nov 2024

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Defensive linemen who are this easy for one blocker to handle are the reason for poor run defense. The Commanders needed Mathis to shift the line of scrimmage backwards and occupy double teams, but it rarely happened

 

https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/washington-commanders/waived-phidarian-mathis-jonathan-allen-update/

 

does not seem like we have a good answer here. 

 
On the other hand, guys coming off nasty lower leg injuries are not a bad place to mine for value if the player is young enough.  Sometimes, full recovery is not achieved until year 3 after the injury.  

[GolfandBills]

I didn’t think he looked good at all.  Him and Ogunjobi were getting blown off the ball quite a bit 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

2 hours ago, Big Turk said:

I see what they are doing...Beane playing chess while these other Mofo's playing Checkers.

Sometimes it seems like Beane's on 'Wheel of Fortune'. 🤨

[Pete]

19 minutes ago, GolfandBills said:

I didn’t think he looked good at all.  Him and Ogunjobi were getting blown off the ball quite a bit 

Ojunjobi surprised me.  He’s usually more stout.  Buffalo Joe said Larry put up the biggest weights. But tis true.  The tape shows Larry O,  Jordan, Mathis, and Walker getting displaced often

[Buffalo Junction]

2 hours ago, JoshAllin said:

Gonna have to accept that the defense is probably back to the week 1 to 6 levels without those guys. My only hope is that its because McD took over more of the playcalling and actually gave the defense a boost

McDermott is a good enough play caller to work around some of these issues. However, McD is still going to get caught from time to time with the wrong call solely because of available talent. You can manufacture pressure, run stops, etc, but you have to gamble a bit to pull it off.