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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1094772" data-attributes="member: 13032">Thanks HE, much appreciated.  Seems like there are two types of Edge players - guys like Parsons and Garrett, tall, lean, fast, and incredibly strong - and nothing like the "older" edge rushers, thinking of Reggie White - and these much lighter, faster LBs like Cooper.I'm guessing Cooper plays a little heavier than 229#, but not much.And I'm not knocking Reggie White.  He was the best edge rusher of his generation (I don't think they called them Edge Rushers then), and I loved that swim move where he would seem to shrink his body and swim through offensive tackles and guards.  they guy was a wonder to watch (RIP Reggie).But the sport has changed and now favors younger, lighter, and faster guys at all levels of the defense (with the exception of the iDL guys, who still play around 300#s, but are much faster than iDLs of the past).I might be wrong here.  Just seems like the NFL looks a whole lot different than it did when guys like Reggie played.  I guess that's not a big surprise.  The OL guys of the Lombardi era probably played at 250# and were considered massive.</blockquote>

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