Those are indeed the duties Muck but I still say that the difference between a starter who is "good" at defending the run, and a starter who is "bad" at defending the run (notice I say starters...there's a "within reason" clause involved)...in terms of how much a teams run defense can improve, is just not that big. Like say we allowed 100 yards rushing per game with Kenny Mixon in at LDE. If we switched him out with like, Simeon Rice, its not like we'd blow up to 115 yards rushing per game IMO. MAYBE it'd go up to like 105 or somethin. Meanwhile, if we had a healthy DG in at DT we'd average like 85 yards rushing per game, then he comes out of the game and Ernest Grant comes in and immediately that would run up to like 115 yards. So like I said, you get the most bang for your buck by improving the DT rotation...so its worth it to me economically speaking to have another passrusher coming from the other side of JT to blow up plays...rather than having a guy who cant rush the passer just "holding up at the point of attack" at LDE in order to help our run defense a teensy bit. Now if we were talking about the LDT position.....well....the opposite is true which is why we kept Romero over Taylor.
I've been calling him the Nigerian Bad Dream. O-Gun is just easy, I mean I find myself about to type "ogunleye" and then I say ahh screw it I can pull up short with just 4 letters. He goes by Wallay.