One is a MLB expected to make 1001 tackles, the other a DT, a position that notoriously doesn't fill up the stat sheet no matter how great the player may be if a DT had as many tackles as your expected leading tackler, you're in trouble
i had lunch with a scout who said nkemdiche is overrated and was a troublemaker. i cant disclose the details but he was on his way out either way and good riddance. welter was smart, better and carried us anyhow.
1001? Show me that guy. Well, since Welter was so bad and started less that half the games of Robert. But since you asked about just DT, LaCouture had more tackles, and as for Godchaux, only starting 10 games, once again had more tackles.
Good player or great player? Too early for a bust? http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...-nkemdiche-to-go-from-good-to-great/31475919/
BOT: Leadership comes natural for Lewis Neal Sonny Shipp - Aug 10, 12:06 PM (Photo: Sonny Shipp, 247Sports) Lewis Neal came to LSU as what some labeled an undersized defensive end at 6-foot-1, 235 pounds. Now, at 6-foot-2, 264 pounds, it’s hard to label the North Carolina-native as undersized with the way he has transformed his body. Neal was forced to put the weight on when he learned that he would be playing some defensive tackle for the Tigers in 2014 due to a lack of depth. Some would not take that news as well as Neal did. But, then again, not everyone is as unselfish as the rising junior. “Wherever the coach puts me that is where I’m going to play,” said Neal, who logged only three tackles but played in all 13 games. “Wherever they put me I was going to do what I had to do for the team, regardless … I just had to do what was best for the team and you can’t be selfish.” As a result of the move last season, Neal now feels that he is more prepared than ever. He is back at his normal position of coming off the edge and is slated to start opposite of Tashawn Bower. “When you can learn the tackles and ends then you know the defense, you know the concepts,” explained Neal. “So, if you know where everybody goes, the speed of the game is slower for you and you play faster because you know where everybody is going. You know everybody’s assignment and you know your assignment, so that’s a luxury of it.” While Neal and Bower are both juniors, the backups are all freshmen or sophomores. That puts the added responsibility on Neal of also taking the younger guys under his wing. Two of those young pups are a pair of true freshmen in Arden Key and Isaiah Washington, who have made a nice splash early on into camp and are expected to push for playing time on the second team. “They’re going to be ready,” Neal said. “Everybody’s going to be ready. I try to help the younger guys as much as possible. I take them to my room and try to go over as much as possible with them. If they need me, I got them. “I have to make sure they know everything so when the season comes we all can be great. You can’t just think about yourself, you have to think of those guys too because they are looking up to me to help them.” Spoken like a true leader, and that is what Neal has become under new defensive coordinator Kevin Steele and defensive line coach Ed Orgeron.
