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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 538446" data-attributes="member: 7277">The rushing stats?  Forte was over 100 yards and over 5 YPC.  Raji made 2 tackles in each game.  I suppose this is "emerging" by his standards.  There was an article post 49ers game about how Pickett stepped up and the lone man on the D line who didn't was Raji.If either of these games was Raji's "emergence", then indeed our expectations of him have fallen on hard times.How can I put this eloquently?  BJ Raji is not a good football player.  He hasn't been since 2010.  He gets highly overrated because our scheme requires nothing from him, stat wise, and in that sense he has it made.Can't provide any interior pass rush for 3 years?  Can't shed a block and take down a ball carrier more than once a game?  Can't even draw a double team anymore?  No worries, its just the scheme.  Was this scheme different in 2010 when he actually was making impact plays?Raji offers absolutely nothing in improving either the pass or rush defense.  Jolly had a bigger impact than Raji turning around the run D in the first half.  Raji's most useful plays are made when he lead blocks on the goal line.  Paying him would be a tremendous waste of financial resources.</blockquote>

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