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Wide-body defensive tackles present potholes for blockers.(trends in player drafting in professional football)
Bigger, broader and bulkier defensive tackles are all the rage this offseason. Dude, if your team doesn't have a wide body or two, it is like so five minutes ago. Stella McCartney has never sewn anything for a Paris runway that is more in.
Ten 300-pound tackles were selected in the first three rounds of the draft. Ten!
Former Whopper pitchman Gilbert Brown wasn't good enough to play in the league last year, but he's making a comeback with the Packers. Two new Bears acquisitions, veterans Ted Washington and Keith Traylor, checked in during minicamp at a combined weight of 717 pounds. How would you like to be in the middle seat in an airplane row between those two?
"The wider the tackle, the better," Dolphins middle linebacker Zach Thomas says.
"You're seeing more and more teams going to the big tackles," Titans offensive line coach Mike Munchak says. "And the technique of what these guys do--keeping the offensive linemen off the linebackers--is being taught more and with more effectiveness."
Just because you have two defensive tackles who couldn't fit in a two-car garage doesn't mean you'll win the Super Bowl, however. Take it from the guy who won the Super Bowl with the mammoth tandem of Tony Siragusa and Sam Adams.
"It's been overplayed," Ravens coach Brian Billick says. "If you think all you need to have a great defense is two fat guys in the middle of the line, you're mistaken. It's not just two wide bodies. For us, it's two guys who play very intelligently, and Adams is one of the most athletic, explosive tackles in the league."
- SEAHAWKS HOPE TO CATCH BREAK FROM TOP 10 TEAMS IN NFL DRAFTTHREE DEFENSIVE...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Farnsworth, Clare April 22, 2003 700+ words
...to land one of the premier defensive tackles Saturday in the first round...landing one of the top two defensive tackles available. The worst-case...and help them make it to the Super Bowl, and hopefully make the Pro...
- Rams' defensive tackles avoid scrap heap to play major roles.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Korte, Steve February 2, 2002 700+ words
...Tyoka Jackson last spring in their search for two starting defensive tackles. What they didn't realize is that they already had two...said back then, `Do you feel that you could go to the Super Bowl with those two guys being your starters?' I would have...
- Birds have loaded up tackle box: The signing of Colts veteran Montae Reagor...
- Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) March 22, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Steve Patton Mar. 22--Montae Reagor was at the Super Bowl earlier this year, but the veteran defensive tackle could only watch as his Indianapolis Colts teammates rolled to a championship...
- NFL rules throw Vegas' Super Bowl parties for a loss.
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) December 27, 2004 700+ words
...re fearsome linebackers, defensive tackles and safeties intent on keeping...biggest casinos. Those Super Bowl parties that had become a...forced to piece together Super Bowl soirees that won't draw...considering going to Vegas for the Super Bowl on Feb. 6 is, well, ...
- Handicapping the Super Bowl race. (Kickoff).
- Magazine article from: Football Digest Wagner, William February 1, 2002 700+ words
...Orleans, the site of Super Bowl 36. Here's a rundown...Rams have returned to Super Bowl form this year because...safety Mike Brown, and defensive tackles Ted Washington and Keith...count out the defending Super Bowl-champion Baltimore...
- Super Bowl Colts forced back into business as usual.
- Newspaper article from: News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) February 23, 2007 700+ words
...downside to winning the Super Bowl. Time won't stand...the party's over, Super Bowl Champions baseball caps...there have been 40 other Super Bowl winners and only eight...players, specifically defensive tackles Corey Simon and Montae...
- Super Bowl Ravens study '06 team picture.
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 10, 2007 700+ words
...2000 squad that won the Super Bowl . Ravens coach Brian...our team that won the Super Bowl except they have a better...impressed with the play of defensive tackles Kelly Gregg and Haloti...probably win in the Super Bowl, but they have to get...
- Buccaneers' Christy at the center of protection for Super Bowl.
- Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) January 22, 2003 700+ words
...his teammates of the Super Bowl. He wondered if he...he will play in the Super Bowl. "It's unbelievable...to get a team to the Super Bowl, and it's been able...handle the Raiders' XXXL defensive tackles, Sam Adams and John...
