Jurrell Casey is playing out of his mind

[Alcibiades]

In three games, he has 3 sacks, two forced fumbles, 9 solo tackles, and 5 assists. This guy is on fire right now, and he's also disrupting plays that don't show up on stat sheets. Casey is having a hell of a start. 

[Supdawg]

Thanks Honor! 

[Alcibiades]

Having that outside pass rush helps, no doubt. But Casey is splitting double teams and blowing things up in the middle. Our front 7 is fun to watch. 

[Starkiller]

What, without eating animal proteins?!?!

 

Casey has always been a great interior rusher. Pees playing him way more as a 3-technique than LeBeau did has been a big part of it I’d guess. It lets him play to his strengths. 

[AvgJoe]

Casey slimmed down and went for more speed in 2017. He changed and focused on power this offseason according to an interview he did with the media (Wyatt?). That looks like a good decision.

[wiscotitansfan]

31 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

Casey has always been a great interior rusher. Pees playing him way more as a 3-technique than LeBeau did has been a big part of it I’d guess. It lets him play to his strengths. 

Lebeau was so overrated for the Titans, to a comical amount. If you want to talk about a stubborn coordinator he's someone people for some reason haven't been pointing their finger at.

[Justafan]

37 minutes ago, wiscotitansfan said:

Lebeau was so overrated for the Titans, to a comical amount. If you want to talk about a stubborn coordinator he's someone people for some reason haven't been pointing their finger at.

The difference in the defense from last year to this year is pretty drastic.  I remember large stretches where teams would just move the ball at will on this defense and 3rd and 20 seemed like a 3 and 5 for most teams.  

 

DP has been a huge upgrade over DLB so far.

[wiscotitansfan]

7 minutes ago, Justafan said:

The difference in the defense from last year to this year is pretty drastic.  I remember large stretches where teams would just move the ball at will on this defense and 3rd and 20 seemed like a 3 and 5 for most teams.  

 

DP has been a huge upgrade over DLB so far.

We do have more talent on defense than with DLB but as you said, the change is pretty drastic. More than what Butler and Honor have solely accounted for.

[WVTITAN]

DLB designed the d to not allow for big plays and couldn’t stop anything underneath.  

[Mythos27]

It's crazy how he's so damn good that I often forget about him until he's splitting a double team or stuffing a RB in the back-field. Dude is a total stud and Landry's pressure is making our defense look like a funnel above a meat grinder.

[Former_Fan]

Casey is a beast! If he can continue this production and Get Landry and Evans at full strength, this will be a very exciting and productive defense.

[pamo9]

And now a new daddy. Missed practice today because wife delivered new baby. Congrats to them!

[Huston]

On 9/24/2018 at 10:43 AM, Mythos27 said:

It's crazy how he's so damn good that I often forget about him until he's splitting a double team or stuffing a RB in the back-field. Dude is a total stud and Landry's pressure is making our defense look like a funnel above a meat grinder.

They are just getting started this year, watch what they do to Philly, Evans,Vaccaro, Butler and Landry make this defense so much better then last year not even considering Pees more updated and sound schemes.

[GLinks]

Butler, Vaccaro and Landry, maybe, but Evans has yet to do anything.

 

Hoping Correa gets to where he was before the back injury quickly. 

 

But I agree, and this defense is sneaking up on people. 

[TitanLegend]

3 minutes ago, JakePA_Titan said:

Last year ppl praised Casey.

 

I said he should be playing better. 

 

Like usual, called a "hater" and "not a real fan".

 

Now he's playing how he should have always been...

 

Now, if we can just have other players actually playing to their potential.

Casey played just as well, if not better last year(not by much or anything) than he's started out this year. Just being used differently.

 

This year through 3 games he's at 8 hurries, 1 QB hit, 3 sacks, 7 stops.

 

Last year through 3 games he had 7 hurries, 3 hits and 7 stops despite the fact that the Oakland game is included in that, which was maybe the worst game of his career(and an obvious outlier). If you look at weeks 2-4 instead of 1-3 his 3 game totals were 11 hurries, 3 hits, 1 sack, 10 stops.

 

But because people only look at the stats on his nfl.com page to judge how well he's playing, this is the kind of commentary you get.

 

Casey has played at pretty much the exact same level for like the last 6 years. He's a consistently great player, doesn't matter what scheme he's in, even if that scheme doesn't allow him to get sacks the same way Dean Pees' system does, and the fact that the secondary behind him is the best it's ever been in his career(which will, again, help sack numbers).

 

Feels like every season someone on this forum makes a post about Casey saying he's not playing as well as he used to, when that's just stupid.

 

Casey is on pace this year for 42 hurries(would be the most in his career by 2, which he set last year), 5 hits(would be the 3rd worst mark in his career, last year he had 16 which was the most in his career), 16 sacks(would be the best of his career, last year he had 7) and 37 stops(4th most in his career, last year he had 46).

 

The sacks and hit numbers will likely even out some. I mean he'll probably finish with one of the better sack totals in his career because of already having 3, but I doubt he eclipses his career high of 10.5 by much if at all. Hits I expect to end up around the 12ish mark. Stops likely won't end up a ton better than 37 if at all because he doesn't play the same gap in terms of defending the run which gives him less opportunities.