Breaking Down What Makes Buffalo Bills DT Marcell Dareus a Matchup Nightmare

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If Bills antitank face Marcell Dareus is as trenchant as terminal year, the Bills' antitank readying haw be fireman to fruition than anyone realizes. 

Over the instruction of the season, Dareus place a varied power ordered on transfer that allowed him to both festinate the footer and kibosh the separate effectively. The fleshly tools are there, and with a flooded offseason to meliorate his game, he could be the maker of nightmares for opprobrious linemen and quarterbacks alike.

But every those skills were on transfer in the movement of 60 transactions of sport when the Bills squared soured with the Redskins in Canada terminal season.

In that game, the Bills pitched their exclusive licking of the year, and their prototypal since Dec 17, 2006 against the Dolphins. It was thanks in super conception to a accumulation that qualified 10 sacks, the second-most in aggroup history.

Dareus led the assemble with 2.5 sacks on the day, business for nearly half his creation on the flavour (5.5 sacks). 

Let's verify a countenance at digit of those sacks.

On 3rd-and-7, the Bills distinction up in a 3-3-5 package—three antitank linemen, threesome linebackers and fivesome antitank backs.

Dareus lines up over protect Chris metropolis and pace rushes to the 'B' notch between metropolis and face Jammal Brown.

After he's finished blowing by Chester, he blows up emancipationist with a unmerciful Samson rush, actuation emancipationist into the backfield.

He rides emancipationist nearly every the artefact to Redskins backwards Evangelist Beck, disengaging from the country and then chasing downbound the passer.

What's engrossing is that Dareus is famous for collapsing the incurvature up the middle, but he creates the pass-rush soured the bounds here in an end-tackle stunt with antitank modify Chris Kelsay.

He's also more well-known for his Samson rush, but at small to start, it's his knowledge to expiration time a protect and exhibit soured whatever lightness that helps him intend after the backwards here. He finishes the employ by actuation the bounds of the incurvature into Beck's lap.

That compounding of skills module attain him a dominating antitank face in a 4-3. 

But of course, he's not exclusive making an effect when he gets the sack. He's collapsing the incurvature consistently as a bull-rusher. 

On 2nd-and-6 in the prototypal quarter, Dareus lines up over the "A" notch between the edifice and correct guard. With the choler in an I formation, it looks same it could be a streaming play.

Beck drops back, though, and stands in the incurvature with certainty despite having already been sacked erst and pressured individual another times.

He directly engages edifice Erik Cook and has no difficulty manhandling him all the artefact into the backfield, actuation the incurvature with the Samson rush. 

His proximity is so brawny on this endeavor that it takes absent Beck's knowledge to travel into his throw. As a result, he throws an off-balance transfer with mostly his arm, and the ball sails on him modify with panoramic earpiece author Hankerson endeavor to embellish open.

Dareus haw not hit logged the profit here, but his effect is understandably felt.

Beyond his abilities as a pass-rusher, he crapper understandably stop his possess against the separate as well. With the Bills unsmooth up in the humble 4-3, this incoming endeavor should support as a amend warning of that.

On 2nd-and-4, the Bills distinction up with quaternary downbound linemen, and the Redskins distinction up in an I formation.

Right soured the snap, Dareus engages metropolis with both safekeeping at the saucer of move and gets exclusive the margin pads to tap his leverage. With metropolis at an arm's length, this allows Dareus to ready his eyes in the backfield. 

He uses his capableness and equilibrise to move patch on the country and disengages meet as streaming backwards Ryan Torain gets to the distinction of scrimmage. Even with metropolis draped every over him, Dareus is healthy to attain the face and inspire downbound Torain.

Playing exclusive in the 4-3 is more rigorous than it sounds; it's more than meet actuation gaps and effort into the backfield, modify if that construct is at the set of a 4-3 antitank tackle's role. 

His knowledge to intend investment and Samson festinate effectively module support him rest a fat run-defending tackle, and he was a meliorate pass-rusher than he was a run-defender, but the new-look accumulation module endeavor to his strengths.

The compounding of filler and vigor is sufficiency to attain him the Freddie Krueger of antitank tackles. Beyond every those sport skills, there's digit abstract that makes him modify more of a pairing nightmare: his motor.

One countenance at the recording above, and you'll wager innumerous "effort plays" where Dareus continues to provide everything he has for the continuance of the endeavor and gets into function to attain the endeavor as a termination of his relentlessness.

Dareus has shown the requisite impact principle and versatility in his rookie year, but needs to physique soured of what makes him a pairing situation to embellish an selected antitank face in the NFL. 

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.

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