This is the point plain and simple. There's a reason the Suh's, McCoy's and Ngata's of the world get 12+ million dollars a year and the Harrison's get $4 or $5 million. He virtually ends up at a stand still with his offensive lineman on a pass. He has no burst and doesn't play with great leverage although not terrible, and can't disengage for shit. For as strong and big of a guy as he is you'd think if he gets into a 290 pound centers pads he should be able to Kris Jenkins style throw him to the ground. He doesn't do this, thus making him a more expendable piece than the other assets we have. I don't know what his conditioning is like but 350 pound guys don't have a very long shelf life in the NFL, as Wilfork is an anomaly.
What Snacks says, and it makes some sense, is that he wasn't allowed to rush the passer heavily. He was responsible for watching two gaps on his downs and could not rush one of them and leave the other one unmanned. We have no idea what he's good for if the Jets actually let him apply pressure. We've seen him break into the backfield and make Brady fold when the Pats were inside their own 5. That's one of the few situations where the other team is almost never going to apply pressure on the 2 gaps Snacks has to cover. They can't afford to setup the back 3 yards deep in the end zone and hand him the ball at the 1. That's a disaster in the making.
I haven't seen Snacks really display the hand technique required to rush the passer, but I hope more reps shows his potential, because he never displayed it in the opportunities he's had.
