How will you judge the defense?

[papabear]

Originally Posted by Bigtinylittle

Concerning Amobi, Kubiak says he is improved, but what troubles me is that last year his production went way down during the last half of the season. People say "he hit the wall", but frankly, I'm at a loss for what caused it. The thing that bothers me is how do we know he isn't going to hit that same wall all season this year? Very puzzling to me.

Most rookies hit it in one way or the other. I think it was more pronounced because he started off so well that it made it seem that much worse later.

The kid was 19-20 years old and had probably never played more than 10-12 games a year. Then he has to go through 20 games+ training camp+OTA's playing just about every down in the majority of the games at one of the most physically brutal positions. The normal DT takes a couple year to grow into the position. If he didn't hit the wall last year I would have been surprised.

His body will adjust, and he'll be better mentally prepared. Like I said most Rookies hit a wall.