Duane Brown's replacement?

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Originally Posted by mussop

I keep hearing this but havent seen any stats to back it up. Does anyone have the sacks allowed by game?

If we are going to use this draft to finish the line then I would go

Oher, Pitts, Mack, Winston, Brown

I can't find anywhere that breaks them down game by game. If you look at the schedule though we played Pitt, Tenn, and Indy in the first four weeks. Those are all teams that can get to the QB. I specifically remember Brown getting abused in the Pitt game. Harrison had three sacks in that game alone and I think there were like five total.

The next week Vanden Bosch and Kearse each had one.

Freeny had one in the first Indy game.

I don't know how many of these were credited to Brown, and that's the big problem with the sacks allowed stat. Only the team knows what the protection scheme was, so it might look like a T got beat badly, but the TE might have blow his assignement to help. That being said it's likely Brown could be credited with 5 sacks allowed in just these first three games.

I seem to remember him struggling the second time around against Freeney as well, but the eyeball test tells me that he improved in both pass protection and run blocking. One thing to remember is that Brown was a TE for his first couple years of college...and I think only had one year at LT before going to the NFL. It's hard to imagine him not getting better as he has more time at the position.