SI Most Disappointing - Star

[beastson]

Down year compared to last year and KK definitely stepped up this year so no worries for us. If Kony continues to develop, we have a nice future

[pantherclaw]

Tough one. He isn't playing as well as last season but opposing offenses are dealing with our front different....

cause our front is different.

[pantherclaw]

Star hasn't had rhe year he did last year, but i also don't consider him having a down year.

The roles he plays isn't going to lead to him making big spash plays. Especially when the line doesn't have two elite DE's for olines to focus on.

[FearTheCats]

Sophomore slump?

[PandaPancake]

Sophomore slump?

Does that end with the regular season or does it keep going into post season?

[The Huddler]

people need to understand that we didnt draft star to be a stat and tackilg machine.. we have one of those behind him in Luke.

His main job is to keep mother fugers off of our tackling machine. Wth Hardy gone and CJ injured Star was left to man the front on his own sometimes

[KendrickPanther]

He's made fewer splash plays. Also early in the season our secondary was so leaky he couldn't stay on the field. Teams would spread us out and pass.

[General_Purr]

He played great against the Browns.. that ankle injury is hard on a big guy like him. Star will always be underrated because he is a run stopper.. He can hang onto a blocker and shrug him off with one arm and clog the RB. Plus 

 

DID YOU GUYS SEE HIM CHASE JOHNNY FOOTBALL out of bounds?! Luke went freaking nuts when he saw that. Star and Short will be beast here for a long time... unless they have sacks on sacks and we have to pay them then the huddle vote will say walk.

[Hammerin'Cameron34]

He's been good since coming back from injury

[Frizzy350]

Honestly I can't disagree, Star HAS underperformed all year compared to last year.

 

He has been doing better as of late and he might have set the bar too high as a rookie (of course most of that success can be attributed to how complete our dline was last year).

 

I watched a hard breakdown on Star (as in every snap from coach film with a lineman expert commentating) from last year.  General consensus was that the guy has freakish athletic ability but a long way to go in technique and play recognition.

 

Star's biggest issue is he allows linemen to "reset".  What this means is that Star gets a great initial burst on the olineman, knocking him off balance, but creates enough distance in doing so that it allows the lineman enough time to get back into a proper stance to block effectively again.  Against lower talent olinemen he is able to follow up with another dominant amount of force to finish the job, but the craftier guys have methods to keep him at bay JUST long enough to allow the play to develop.

Kid has got a great future if he works at it and could become as disruptive as Ngata.

[CatMan72]

Rivera said Star and KK are playing both DT positions this year and it's a much bigger adjustment for Star since he was used to just playing the nose. Add some nagging injuries on top of that and it's easy to understand why his production is down.

[cardiackat88.]

My old high school coach would often say on big defensive plays "he didn't make the tackle, but he made the play".

Guys plowing a center to disrupt a handoff or guy flowing so well with a runningback that it made him juke for a loss etc.

[Bj-Monster23]

Star does his job like he suppose to do. Getting sacks is a achievement playing nose tackle you don't get them too often. He is no Suh but he is a damn good defensive lineman and I expect him to turn up Sunday.

[camycamcan]

Kk ballin