Chris Simms’ All-22 Team for NFL Week 9

November 9, 2016   ·   Chris Simms   ·   Jump to comments

My teammates and I ribbed Jon Gruden all week about his pet project.
Never in a million years did we expect him to actually roll out the "Sapp Formation." And never in a billion years did we think we’d see our All-Pro defensive tackle dancing like Beyonce in the end zone.
It happened—and Gruden is a genius for it. He suspected the Falcons would view the big guy as either a distraction or a lead blocker. Atlanta didn’t know what we all knew; Sapp might’ve been an average-sized tackle, but he was a world-class athlete with receiver’s hands. Brad Johnson could throw a dart his way, and he’d catch it.
Sapp would’ve thrived in today’s NFL, where positional mobility is the rule and not the exception. So in his honor, I’ve placed five equally freakish interior pass-rushers on my latest All-22 team—including a guy who plays exactly like my old Hall of Fame teammate. They’re all athletes who happen to play defensiv...

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