Interesting run defense observation

A one gap NT, using his strongest attribute of getting in the backfield. He was neuter for awhile playing a hog trying to keep washouts at ILB covered up.   No coincidence Gurley showed up after Raji was hurt. 

Exactly, the biggest change in Raji is that he is being allowed to use his biggest attribute, his first step quickness. All the way back to when he was drafted, many thought he was a better fit for tackle in a 4-3 scheme, not for what all NTs were doing at that time, which was just trying to eat up blocks. Raji never liked that role because it did not fit his skill set, knowing his strengths were going to be used has, IMHO, made him more motivated to get into better condition and consistently play hard. 

Groin injury, not good.  They need him for the long haul. 

People will look at the boxscore and say the GB run defense wasn't good yesterday, but I thought they did well. Rams kept feeding Gurley and GB bottled him up for the most part. Gave up that one bad long run...obviously want to eliminate those altogether but by that point it was middle of the 4th quarter and GB had a 2 score lead. They held him to under 4 YPC on the day prior to that one big play. Prior to that run, he had something like 89 yards on 26 carries

prevent d + noraji + noperry = gurleyards.