He's a weakside DE for the most part. Remember the play where UNC ran to the QB's left and Demetrius tipped the ball away from an open receiver? That play came from the WDE.
He backs up J. Jackson, plays inside on some downs, and is extremely smart and sound in his assignments.
It's a big loss. Garvin is more talented, but not physically developed, nor does he have the experience to make some of the heady plays that D. Jax makes. You might end up getting enough splash plays from Garvin to make it nearly a wash though.
DJ Johnson has had trouble getting the RB to the ground thus far. He's been in position a few times, only to miss the tackle.
I’m a little surprised by this analysis.
Obviously you watch film with a closer and more well trained eye, but from what I saw watching DJax’s game, I think he will take Chads spot next year.
Didn’t Trent Harris play WDE his fresh, soon and jr years? (I’m asking - that may be inaccurate.) This year Trent backed up Chad at SDE and took his spots on passing downs. I think that was in part to get joe Jackson on the field and maximize his snaps. And JJ played a lot on passing and rushing downs.
When I look at DJax game, I think he might be our strongest DE physically. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him move over to SDE and keep JJ and Garvin at WDE.
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If you look at the date stamp, that was analysis on what he was doing at that point-in-time for us. He
mostly was playing WDE at the time. As for next year, I absolutely agree he moves to the SDE position and will probably even start for us. Joe Jackson/Garvin get most of the snaps at WDE, with Rousseau maybe seeing some time there. D Jax/Patchan/Recruits see a lot of snaps at the SDE spot.
The good thing is a lot of our DL can move around quite a bit and are versatile. It shows we could use another DE though.
I kinda agree, but I don't think Demetrius will be getting all that many more snaps at DE than Garvin will. Obviously he will continue to slide down to 3tech in pass situations like we did last year as well
I think Joe Jackson and Jon Garvin will be on the field a whole lot together which would put Joe Jackson at SDE. He is 6'5" 250lbs, and could put on another 5-10 this offseason.
It's entirely possible that J Jackson plays SDE for the majority of snaps and that gets our two best pass rushers on the field at the same time, but it's really important to stop the run first and foremost on early downs. If J Jackson shows he can do that- while also learning opposite handed techniques- then it's great for us. It's not always easy for every player to just flip to the other side and be as effective, but J Jackson is a freak, so maybe he'll do it without incident.
My guess is they try to get as much mileage as they can out of J Jackson and Garvin by playing them in all passing situations and finding ways to play other players on more traditional running plays. We will move our DE's inside to DT on a lot of passing downs as well (as you stated), and that's something we have done a bunch with both D Jax and J Jackson in the past.
I've always been a bigger fan of Scott Patchan than many on this board, so I believe if he's healthy he can help us at SDE. His length, quickness, and tenacity were big assets before the knee injury. If he still has the quicks to go with the length and tenacity, he will surprise.
