"Too Beast or not too Beast"
Often, we hear the QB position is the most important to a team and the high percentage of "franchise tags" for QBs would support this.
But for my money, give me a disruptive force against the core of a offensive line - the middle. You know the same location a QB starts the play and often the same location a running game tries to establish its toughness.
This is the era of disruptive DTs. Attacking the underbelly of an offense line is good business in NFL (7 of the last 11 super bowl winners possessed dominant NT playing in 3-4 defense). The smart teams have figured it out by drafting pressure DT who can play NT or DE in 3-4 alignment. They possess the strength/size to hold down NT role while having the athletic ability to slide over to DE to marauder opposing QBs. The line between DE and DT in 3-4 have narrowed considerably. Even Bill Belichick moved the immovable NT Vince Wilfork to DE in spot situations in 2011.
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