articles n vidz on that SUH signing thing

Agamemnon wrote:

We probably lose a comp pick in 2019. But gain it back for the year 2020 when Suh signs with another club

No. He was cut. So he doesn’t alter comp picks.

Five Things to Know about Rams DT Ndamukong Suh

Kristen Lago

http://www.therams.com/news-and-events/article-1/Five-Things-to-Know-about-Rams-DT-Ndamukong-Suh/2ef62cce-d589-4a8a-b6d6-be92d1f76016

The Rams have added yet another dynamic playmaker to their defense in defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh. The five-time Pro Bowler and three-time All Pro will join 2017 AP Defensive Player of the Year, Aaron Donald, as a core member of the Rams defensive front next season.

Here are five things to know about the newest Ram:

1) He is a first-generation American

Suh was born and raised in Portland, Oregon but he is the first of his family to be born in the United States. His father, Michael, is from Cameroon and played semi-professional soccer in Germany, while his mother, Bernadette, was born in Jamaica.

He was named after his paternal great-grandfather. In the Ngemba language of Cameroon, Ndamukong means “House of Spears.” Suh has visited both Cameroon and Jamaica and was even named an ambassador in Ntankah — the town where his dad grew up.

2) Suh is friends with billionaire investor Warren Buffett

In his spare time, Suh seeks business advice from former athletes like Roger Staubach or Magic Johnson and has been very vocal about his desire to pursue a business career post-football.

As such, the defensive tackle has formed a few unlikely friendships with business moguls — like billionaire investor Warren Buffett. The pair first became acquainted at a meeting in Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway office in Omaha, Nebraska.

The self-made billionaire and Suh both attended the University of Nebraska and as Buffett told the Sun Sentinel, “We hit it off right away.” Since that first meeting, Suh has shadowed Buffett multiple times and the two remain in close contact.

3) He has appeared on several reality TV shows

Suh is no stranger to the small screen.

In total, he has appeared on three different reality TV shows — as a contestant on the Fox celebrity dating show “The Choice,” plus as a participant in both the ABC celebrity diving show “Splash” and an episode of the Discovery Channel’s “American Muscle.”

4) Suh has donated over $2 Million to his alma mater

On April 17, 2010, at the annual Husker Spring Game, Suh announced a $2.6 million donation to the University of Nebraska. Two million dollars would go to Nebraska Athletics, while the remaining $600,000 created an endowed scholarship for the UNL College of Engineering.

His gift was the largest, single charitable contribution to the University by any former player and occurred several weeks before Suh was selected as the second overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft.

5) He was the first collegiate defensive player to win the AP Player of the Year

Suh’s college career was one for the record books. Through four years at the University of Nebraska, the defensive tackle led the Huskers to a Big 12 Championship and their first ever shutout win in the 2009 Holiday Bowl.

In his senior season, Suh earned unanimous first-team All-Big 12 honors and the Big-12 Defensive Player of the Year Award. He was also named a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, took home the Lombardi Trophy — for the top collegiate lineman or linebacker — and was the first ever defensive player to receive the AP Player of the Year Award.

Rams make yet another offseason splash, add Ndamukong Suh to loaded roster

Frank Schwab

link: https://sports.yahoo.com/rams-make-yet-another-offseason-splash-add-ndamukong-suh-loaded-roster-222319812.html

The Los Angeles Rams aren’t messing around in 2018.

The Rams could have decided to comfortably ride the wave of a surprising 2017 NFC West title into 2018, but they’re clearly trying to make a run at a Super Bowl this season. The Rams landed one of the best free agents to change teams this offseason when they signed defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, one of their many high-profile moves since last season ended. Suh was free after he was cut by the Miami Dolphins, and the Rams beat out other teams to land him. The Rams announced Monday evening that Suh had agreed to terms. Suh’s deal was one year for $14 million according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

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The Rams are taking advantage of the biggest edge any NFL team can have, which is having a good starting quarterback on a rookie deal. Jared Goff counts just $7.6 million against the salary cap this season, a fraction of what many top quarterbacks cost. The Rams can invest the extra cap space into players like Suh, and also cornerbacks Marcus Peters and Aqib Talib, two other big-time offseason additions. Having Suh on a one-year deal allows the Rams to continue to have cap flexibility in the future. Suh also “took less” to go to Los Angeles according to Schefter, a sign that he believes they’re ready to push for a Super Bowl.

It’s possible the Rams now have the best defensive tackle duo in NFL history. Perhaps Joe Greene and L.C. Greenwood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers or a couple other tandems would argue, but at very least Donald and Suh are in the conversation. Donald is the reigning NFL defensive player of the year. Suh is a three-time first-team All-Pro. They’re going to be impossible to block.

Suh has been a force in the middle since the Detroit Lions made him the second pick of the 2010 NFL draft. He is great against the run and able to get a pass rush up the middle. He should be even better in Los Angeles. In Detroit and Miami he was the focus of opponents’ blocking schemes on the interior. That won’t be the case playing next to Donald. Both great tackles will benefit from the presence of the other.

The Rams surprised everyone last season when they went 11-5. Their offseason has been eye-opening as well.

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— D-Ware (@DeMarcusWare) March 26, 2018

Ndamukong Suh a Strong Addition for the Rams’ Star-Powered Defense, But Questions Still Remain

ANDY BENOIT

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/03/26/ndamukong-suh-rams-defensive-line-aaron-donald?utm_campaign=themmqb&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&__twitter_impression=true

Here are the concerns–

The bad—or, more accurately, the caveat—is that this dynamic defensive tackle duo doesn’t suddenly make Los Angeles a surefire top-10 defense. Two big questions remain. First, with both men being classic first-and second-down 3-techniques, who moves to 1-technique on running downs, and how will that go? And second, can a defense afford to have TWO linemen who take as many risks as Donald and Suh? When they penetrate and make the play, it’s beautiful. But when they penetrate and don’t make the play, the defense gets gashed.

Even more aggressive are Los Angeles’s cornerbacks. Only one corner plays a riskier brand of coverage than new Ram Aqib Talib, and that’s fellow new Ram Marcus Peters. These are two of the game’s best playmakers, but they also give up many plays. Some defensive coaches would not be comfortable with that at one outside corner spot, let alone both.

With corners like these, it’s imperative a defense’s pass rush gets home and makes a quarterback throw early, because that’s how route-jumpers like Talib and Peters do damage. If that pass rush fails to get home, the route-jumpers can be liabilities. This undoubtedly factored into the Rams shelling out $14 million for Suh. What’s still missing, though, is a dominant edge rusher. Last year’s top end, Robert Quinn, washed up, so he and his $11.4 million cap number got dealt to Miami. That leaves Matt Longacre and Samson Ebukam as the only true edge rushers; offenses won’t be installing any extra chip-blocking protections for L.A.

The Rams need an edge rusher, but few are available. Free agency has none left, and this year’s rookie edge-rushing crop is light. Perhaps that stoked L.A.’s fervor for Suh. Knowing no outside rusher was out there, the next best play was to become super dominant inside. Nevertheless, this front seven is still not great on the edges, which is something that’s been said of few top-shelf defenses before.

InvaderRam wrote:

the run defense. i don’t know. i hope suh can play nose.

i wonder what there ultimate plan is for and edge rusher. they can’t be done yet.

You would think they weren’t done. But here’s the problem (I’ve said this before): rookie pass rushers rarely get much production. In 2016 out of 30 pass rushers with 8 or more sacks, 1 was a rookie. In 2017, it was 1 out of 35.

Here’s the good news.

Last year they were 4th in sacks and sack percentage without an edge rusher. Quinn wasn’t himself most of the season and got only 3 sacks in the first 10 games. Still, they ranked 4th in the end. That was largely cause of Donald…and scheming… and… scheming Donald (I did that on purpose. Yuck yuck.) Now they have a double interior rush with Suh added on. They are going to be doing the same as last year, just with double the interior DL pressure and with 2 great corners.

So they could get by. I mean all they have to do is find someone who can get more than 3 sacks in the first 10 games, and they are already better off than last year. That’s not longterm great but it’s something they could pull off. IF Ebukam has anything maybe he gets them 8 or more?

Also the good news is, you can find good pass rushing OLBs in the 3rd and 4th rounds. So they might not pay off right away but they’re there to be had.

Maybe they take 2 or 3. You never know.

With Ndamukong Suh joining Aaron Donald, the Rams’ defense is going to be terrifying

Austin Gayle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fancy-stats/wp/2018/03/27/with-ndamukong-suh-joining-aaron-donald-the-rams-defense-is-going-to-be-terrifying/?utm_term=.9e3362eb11c2

The Los Angeles Rams continue to win the offseason, as former Miami Dolphins interior defender Ndamukong Suh has ended his well-documented free agency tour and joined what has quickly become a star-studded defense in Hollywood. And now quarterbacks facing the Rams will tremble at the prospect of facing a defensive line that includes another of the NFL’s best interior defenders in Aaron Donald.

Pro Football Focus’s No. 1 overall ranked player in two of the past three seasons, Donald has become a household name now just four years into his career, dominating his opposition with elite consistency both as a pass-rusher and in run defense. In 2017, he recorded an NFL-high 91 total pressures en route to a career-high 99.7 overall grade.

Now paired together, Suh’s and Donald’s respective ceilings skyrocket.

Suh has earned overall grades of 89.3 or higher in each of the past three seasons in Miami, eclipsing his previous career-high with the Detroit Lions (89.1, 2013) in all three years. He’s also earned an overall grade below 81.0 just once (78.4, 2011) in his eight-year NFL career.

The 6-foot-4, 307-pounder has recorded 160 total pressures over the past three seasons, ranking sixth among all interior defenders. He also amassed 247 total impact plays (factoring in quarterback hits, quarterback hurries and all defensive stops) in those three years, tying for fourth among the same group of interior defenders. His three-year pass-rush productivity, a PFF-born efficiency metric that measures pressure created on a per-snap basis with weighting toward sacks, ranks 11th among interior defenders with at least 1,000 pass-rush snaps 2015-17.

In 2017, Suh amassed 43 total pressures across 495 pass-rush snaps, including 30 quarterback hurries, eight hits and five sacks. He ranked 21st in pass-rush productivity (6.8) among qualifying interior defenders.

Suh’s new partner in crime, Donald, led all qualifying interior defenders in pass-rush productivity (14.8), as he logged 66 quarterback hurries, 13 hits and 12 sacks across 483 pass-rush snaps. Donald will complement Suh’s bruising approach with quickness off the snap and high-end athleticism, as he has flourished attacking both the outside and inside edge of opposing offensive linemen with his speedy first step and technical hand usage.

Though explosive off the snap, Suh opts for physicality over finesse when attacking the passer, instilling fear in his opposition via aggressive hand usage and bull-rush techniques. In Suh’s three-year tenure with the Dolphins, he recorded 58 bull-rush pressures, which accounted for 36.25 percent of his total pressures in that span.

In defensive coordinator Wade Phillips’s scheme, Suh will work opposite of Donald at 3-4 defensive end with six-year veteran Michael Brockers manning the middle at nose tackle on early downs. However, with Donald and now Suh at his disposal, Phillips should tap into his creative side on passing downs and move his two premier interior defenders up and down the line of scrimmage to attack mismatches and counter offensive adjustments.

Unlike a majority of interior defenders, Suh offers positional versatility as a pass-rusher. During his time in Miami, he played 63.7 percent of his pass-rush snaps either head up or shaded on the opposing guard and 25.3 percent opposite of the tackle, where he has recorded strong 7.66 and 9.89 pressure percentages, respectively. However, when lined up outside of the offensive tackle, he has more than doubled both his high marks, pressuring the quarterback on 27.27 percent of his pass-rush snaps along the edge.

On top of that, Suh is no one-trick pony, as evidenced by his strong run-defense grades in each of the past three seasons. After earning 88.6 and 88.2 run-defense grades in 2015 and 2016, respectively, Suh earned a career-high 92.4 in 2017, which ranked second among qualifying interior defenders, behind the New York Giants’ Damon Harrison.

However, despite his favorable grades, Suh’s impact in the ground game isn’t fully reflected in the box score. He ranks just tied for 18th in PFF’s run-stop percentage (7.71 percent) among interior defenders with 500-plus run-defense snaps from 2015 to 2017. As such, Suh’s positive impact in run defense is better identified through film study rather than stat sheets.

Suh earned positive grades on 92 of his 361 run-defense snaps (25.48 percent) in 2017, ranking ninth among qualifying interior defenders. And a majority of his positive grades weren’t awarded for making tackles near the line of scrimmage but rather disrupting the line of scrimmage and forcing opposing ball carriers away from intended rushing lanes, which, in turn, allowed his teammates to rally to the ball and steal the box-score glory.

Brockers, who has already proven dominant against the run throughout his career, will be the beneficiary of this component of Suh’s game. A former first-round pick in 2012, Brockers has often taken advantage of one-on-one situations while Donald drew double teams in run defense, allowing him to practically live behind the line of scrimmage. In 2017, he ranked fifth among qualifying interior defenders in run-stop percentage (11.7) and earned the 10th-best run-defense grade (88.0).

Suh’s presence in the trenches, along with Donald’s, will give opposing offensive lines no choice but to dial their focus away from Brockers, leaving him to reap the benefits in the backfield.

A testament to his ability to stay healthy and contribute on all three downs with admirable consistency, Suh has also played 281 more defensive snaps than any other interior defender over the past three seasons.

Adding Suh to their consummate list of offseason signings (including Marcus Peters, Aqib Talib and Nickell Robey-Coleman), Los Angeles has planted its flag as one of the teams to beat in the NFL in 2018.