it was great to see Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson come down with a sack on the first drive. It couldn’t have been scripted any better. Here you had Patterson seeing his first action of the season after suffering a seizure at training camp and being diagnosed with AVM.
One good thing about the Eagles adding Cullen Jenkins to the defensive line, he’s going to draw attention away from Trent Cole, Jason Babin and Patterson. One thing for sure is that Patterson is going to be single-blocked. When the teams look at the Eagles defensive front, they’re going to make sure to pay attention to Cole, Babin and Jenkins before they worry about Patterson.
I think this is going to allow fans to see how good of a football player Patterson is. He’s not the Superstar caliber player, who can get double-teamed and still get to the quarterback, but he is good enough to get pressure on the quarterbacks against one-on-one blocking. This is going to greatly improve the Eagles pass rush.
In the first series, we saw what happens when Patterson gets the chance to work one-on-one. He got matched up with Browns guard Eric Steinbach. Patterson got his hands on Steinbach’s shoulder pads, then gave him a swim-over with his right arm, which forced Steinbach to hold him.
Despite the holding which Steinbach was doing, Patterson got himself free and registered the sack on Browns quarterback Colt McCoy.
“I was a little bit nervous at first, I had to get that feeling back”, Patterson said. “But, it felt pretty good and I felt pretty happy to get a hit on him.”
After the sack, it was great to hear Eagles fans give him a major ovation. That gesture says a lot about Patterson and Eagles fans who know what Patterson has been through and how thrilled he is to be back on the field doing what he loves to do.
“It feels good being out here with the fellas, feeding off the energy”, Big Mike said at halftime of last night’s game. “The fans came out strong and it just felt so good to be out here.”
Coach Washburn thinks Patterson will be a stud in his scheme… he mentioned his former player DT Tony Williams who had a career year playing in Wash’s scheme and said Patterson is much more talented and dont be surprised to see double digit sacks from him.
Double digit sacks out of any DT is a ridiculous expectation, especially out of Patterson. He’ll have a carear year. I’ll give you that, but don’t get ahead of yourself.
Just to put it in perspective, there were only 3 DTs in the league last season that had over 6 sacks.
jott – that’s impossible, Paulman clearly stated otherwise OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND….
so it just cannot be
Double digit sacks from “no push patterson”?
Sacks
2010 – 2.0
2009 – 1.5
2008 – 0.5
4 sacks in 3 years??
If he is so talented, what the heck has he been doing for the past few years?
@bsmvideos, to his Patterson’s defense, he hasn’t been coached since joining the league. Segrest wasn’t a line coach. He was some intern assistant, turned special teams coordinator, turned D-line coach. He never knew what he was doing there. Before that, was a similar situation, but that D-line coach’s name is escaping me at the moment.
bsm – do you understand context at all?
Before Washburn Patterson was NOT told to rush the passer on everyplay. We’ve seen him play once, and not for a whole game even, since washburn is here. And the results are (terrible sample size notwithstanding) success!
So you are evaluating him in a context where his goal was NOT to rush the passer. Maybe you were unaware, but the big change from JJ and McD’s defense to Washburn’s style is that the front 4 were NOT told to rush upfield each play before, but now they are.
I’m not sure if you didn’t know that or you were ignoring it, but it makes your comment obsolete.