Ah, JT...come on now, they no longer even pay attention to you anymore...have to show and prove... Wake will be doubled, and chipped, and the rest of it, JT/Misi/DE's have to amp it up. This would be a great game for Odie to make his mark.
Typical Wake game: 1 sack, 3 QB hits, 5 QB hurries, 1 False Start (OT facing him), 1 holding flag (OT facing him) and 7 uncalled holds against him.
My gut tells me that Wake's stats will suffer this year, and that the rest of the d-line will need to step up to take pressure off of him.
I recall that in one of the preseason games we were discussing how surprised we were that it was JT who was getting doubled and chipped rather than Wake.
And we still have What's his name from Clemson on the D-line. This Defense is incredibly talented, young and healthy. They might be even more talented than when a young Zach and JT started wrecking offenses consistently. Vontae's head is going to be lit up like a Tesla Tower. Ooo Yeh!
Well, they used to do the same to him in the CFL, at times they used 3 blockers on him and it didn't matter, but clearly he is going to face more schemes designed to minimize his impact, this is why Odie's play in the preseason should give us all a boost, he showed that explosiveness from the interior of the Dline, that will take a big load off of Wake if it holds true during the regular season.
I like to describe our defense like Chris Farley describes the wildlife in "Almost Heroes"... [video=youtube;ecpKdI4M4zM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpKdI4M4zM[/video]
This needs to be tightened up. Nolan needs to scheme ways to make sure that on the vast majority of passing snaps Wake is rushing instead of dropping.
Release that freakin Kracken.. we've got to know that BB is going to scheme him away from the rush into coverage, How do we counter that?
I think we have to move him around tremendously..so they don't know where the fu%$ he is coming from, and they can't iso him..Let the Kracken loose, I mean seriously..