Plenty of tackle opportunities to go around in AZ, but thats not what makes DWASH special. Dansby has no sacks this year, and only 3 TFLS, and hasnt had a significant total in years.
Im hopin Arians lets him loose, and from everything Ive read thus far, im expecting good things
yeah, I just read an arians quote about him being such a great blitzer, but I'm always hesitant to play guys back to last year's stats when you get coaching changes since a lot of production is scheme dependent --- you won't get many blitzing sacks if you don't blitz much, and I think that interior lb blitz was something horton was aggressive with, as he probably brought it from pitt.
do we have any reason to believe bowles will be running the same aggressive inside blitz packages?
demeco ryans and kendricks combined for one sack with bowles as dc in philly last year, although they had already established a different scheme.
just to underscore this, I looked up some numbers on timmons --- from 2008-12 timmons posted 23 sacks, and he only started a couple games in '08.
that year, his second in the league, he combined with foote and farrior for 10 total sacks.
here are the ilb sack leaders by year
2012
washington 10,
timmons 6
2011 bishop, harris,
washington 5
2010
farrior (PIT), willis 6
2009
timmons 7
so, you can see timmons averaging nearly 5/yr over 5 years is pretty exceptional, and you can see the lebeau/horton guys littered throughout there.