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You should start Dqwell every week, the guy is a playmaker and has potential to make plays forcing/recovery fumbles, interceptions, and sacks.
I'll likely do that as he was my top LB last year, however it just struck me as odd that he was ranked low. I figured I'd ask the informed ones on this board if there was something going on with him or the team in general (scheme, etc.)
Thanks Jene and Diamond for the additional input. I'll start him with confidence this week and hope for the best.
Add another interception and its still only the third quarter.He's raking up the IDP points and seems to be making reservations to Hawaii early.3 sacks today for D'Qwell now. Well on his way to surpassing his career-high of 3.5 on the season. Perhaps I misspoke about his big-play capability.
Im very concerned.
He seems to be dropping back more than he used to, but he also misplayed at least 3-4 run plays, chose the wrong gap and Law Firm broke loose. Mostly held him in check, but DQ missing a couple of assignments was a net positive for Green-Ellis. The talent around him is much improved too.Thinking downgrade him to a strong #2.
Guys.In the first game Andy Ried called 56 passing plays.He kept calling passing plays even though his QB had thrown 4 interceptions, one a pick-six to D'Qwell. Add he had been, sacked, knocked-down, hurried-pressured, and even lost a fumble on one of his sacks (once again D'Qwell).Yesterday the Browns had starting CB Joe Haden out suspended and their other starting CB, Sheldon Brown was out with an injury. The replacement CBs were awful and Andy Dalton had his first three TD passing game of his career and only his third 300 yard passing game of his career. They only ran for 80 total yards on the ground all game.If the Browns had both of their starting corners and if the Bengals had a run heavy game plan then D'Qwell would not have been blizting up the middle and dropping back in coverage but since the Bengals game plan was obviously to attack the weakness and go after those corners then the Browns would counter that game plan by moving their chess pieces and the most talent play that defensive coordinator **** Juron has to move around to counter the game plan by the opposition is D'Qwell Jackson.That is why he was dropping in coverage and rushing the passer against the Eagles and that is why he was doing so against the Bengals.I would imagine other teams will also try to attack the Browns via the air until Haden is back so look for more of the same but I would not panic over low tackle numbers. Sure it is chancey to count on big plays but Juron konws when to dial up the blitzes for D'Qwell and Jackson knows how to time his rush.I'm sure opposing offensive coordinators will try to counter pressure up the gut but right now the Browns defense has a formidable pass rush up the gut and D'Qwell is a big part of it. I'd sit back and enjoy the ride if I had D'Q instead of complaining but that's just me.
Good insight. Thanks.
Better players around him in the front 7, scheme changes so the play doesn't have to funnel to DQ all the time. The overall defense is a mess right now in large part because of the secondary play. If anyone gets through the front 7 it's open season. Knew the loss of Haden would hurt, but this has been worse than I expected.
I don't agree that he has better players around him in the front 7 right now but I do agree with the rest that the overall defense is a mess.My link
Right now the Browns have no stability on the defense. DT Phil Taylor, OUT with a torn pec. CB Joe Haden, OUT suspended. FS Eric Haag, REPLACED due to ineffectiveness. CB Sheldon Brown, REMOVED from his starting CB spot and relegated to slot cover duties. LB Chris Gocong, OUT injured. LB Scott Fujita, LIMITED due to pending suspension and him being rusty and old. Three starters OUT, three others who are playing bad or aren't up to speed. The mess means that the triangle of DT Ahtyba Rubin and DT Phil Taylor along with two reliable veteran LBers on each side that D'Q had last year has been removed. That means no tight defensive fits where he can slide to a spot to make a tackle.
I don't think Winn has been much of a step back at all from Taylor and Hughes has been serviceable as a rotation player too. Rucker and Parker have been big steps up from the garbage at DE last year. Fort and Robertson are being asked to do too much given all of the other problems, but they're flying around and doing more than Fujita did - not much of a step back from Gocong either. The problems are behind them, big time domino effect from Haden - Ward's being asked to do too much and the rest are completely lost.'Bracie Smathers said:
That's why I think the talent around him is better, schemes are calling for the play to funnel to others instead of relying on him to constantly make the play like years past.
That makes sense I suppose, but I'm curious to know what that does to D'Qwell's fantasy value going forward.
I don't agree the talent around him is better.I do like both Billy Wynn and John Hughes but I do not believe they are better or equal to Phil Taylor.
He's not a stud anymore, he's still a #2 though. Good every down MIKE's are still good IDP players.
According to the posts before, he has less talent around him. Everyone is injured or out.
I'd like to, i really would. I'm cautiously optimistic though....
Jackson looked good last night (in real football). The entire Browns D played hard and limited the Raven's ability to move the ball. He could have easily had 8 solos with a sack. Rice made his usual ankle breaking moves to avoid a couple sure fire Jackson tackles and Flaco got rid of the ball 0.5 seconds before Jackson drove him to the ground.With the Browns struggling offence, Jackson will have plenty of opportunities to be a top 3 LB.'Abspara said:
You keep saying this so could you explain something to me.Last year, when the talent on the Browns would have been worse according to you, the Cleveland Browns defense finished 5th in the entire NFL but this year they currently rank 27th?
Because our Haden-less secondary was torched vs. the Bengals and the Bills until Spiller went down. The front 7 is not the problem and I think you'll see that in the stats once Haden comes back and especially when Taylor comes back. DQ is competing with front 6-7 guys for tackles, not the back 4-5.
Haden is awesome but in the only game he played this year the team gave up more yards than in any other game.1. PHI (With Joe Haden) the defense gave up - 456 yards
Did it look bad?
Looked like the dreaded concussion.
Oh no....Looked like the dreaded concussion.
I feel differently. I think the problems are in the secondary, not as much up front.
