Hungry To Get To Double-Digit Sacks

To say that Bucs exterior linebacker YaYa Diaby has exceeded expectations can be an understatement. If we had been all advised {that a} rookie third-round draft choose by Tampa Bay would lead the Bucs with 7.5 sacks this 12 months, not many many would have purchased it.

What made the 7.5 sacks from Diaby even that rather more spectacular was that he wasn’t a starter on the sting till Week 11 when he acquired extra taking part in time. Meaning YaYa Diaby began in simply seven video games this 12 months and averaged a sack per begin.

There’s extra to Diaby’s sport than simply attending to the quarterback. He was second on the Bucs with 12 tackles for loss, trailing solely stud linebacker Lavonte David. Diaby has pitched in for the protection in lots of areas with 39 tackles, a pressured fumble and two fumble receivers.

This Is Solely The Starting For YaYa Diaby

Bucs OLB YaYa Diaby – Photograph by: USA Right this moment

As a lot of an entertaining shock it’s been to see YaYa Diaby hit the bottom working so fast along with his alternative, he doesn’t even really feel he’s scratched the floor but.

“Despite the fact that I had this common season (that) I had, I nonetheless really feel like I left so much on the desk,” YaYa Diaby mentioned while appearing on the Pewter Report Podcast. “For me, I get comfortable, however on the identical time I’m by no means a man who will get glad with stuff like that as a result of I do know I left so much out this 12 months and I do know I can enhance.

“That’s what I’ll do. I’ll enhance and I’ll preserve getting higher to have the ability to get in that double-digit sack 12 months. And as I at all times say, do what I can to assist this staff out to maintain wining our division and preserve getting these alternatives and to have these alternatives to get to the Tremendous Bowl.”

Double-digit sack seasons don’t come round as typically as they as soon as did for the Bucs. Jason Pierre-Paul recorded 12.5 sacks in 2018 and broke a really lengthy drought by changing into the primary Bucs’ defender to perform a double-digit sack season since 2005 when Simeon Rice tallied 14.

Extra just lately Shaq Barrett had a historic 2019 season breaking the Bucs’ single-season sack report with 19.5 sacks, and two years later hit 10. In every of these years Barrett made the Professional Bowl. The Bucs are two years faraway from having a double-digit sacker, however YaYa Diaby might be subsequent in line and it’s on his thoughts as the following objective.

The Bucs’ Subsequent Participant With 10-Plus Sacks?

Bucs OLB YaYa Diaby and 49ers QB Brock Purdy – Photograph by: USA Right this moment

“In fact, in fact,” YaYa Diaby mentioned when requested a couple of 10-plus sack season in his future. “This 12 months, similar to I’ve mentioned, it’s been a great 12 months. However I’m hungry to get to double-digit sacks. This offseason I’m going to have a look at what I can, look over movie and take a look at what I wanted to work on and what I can do additionally take a look at different go rushers and attempt to emulate the greats.

“Like proper now the T.J.s (Watt), the Myles Garretts – all the blokes that I look as much as proper now. So I really feel like that’s what I want to do that offseason to have the ability to attain these double digits.”

Diaby’s season isn’t executed but both. The Bucs host the reeling Eagles in the first round of the playoffs at Raymond James Stadium on Monday evening, and who is aware of what this run might appear to be.  This might be one other alternative to placed on a present in a public setting to assist folks acknowledge that Diaby is a professional go speeding risk.

YaYa Diaby Tells Pewter Report The Key To Defeating The Eagles

Bucs OLBs YaYa Diaby and Anthony Nelson – Photograph by: USA Right this moment

On the newest episode of the Pewter Report Podcast, YaYa Diaby gave Scott Reynolds and Matt Matera an early breakdown on what it’s going to take for the Bucs to beat the Eagles and transfer on to the second spherical of the playoffs.

“What we’ve been specializing in, (is) stopping the run,” Diaby mentioned. “That’s what we lacked once we performed them final time was stopping the run. I do know they’re going to have a look at their movie, we’re going to have a look at our movie, they’re going to see what harm us and so they’re going to attempt to do it once more.

“This time we received to be prepared and put our large boy pants on. Talking for the entrance line, we received to place our large boy pants on and get the job executed.”

Try the complete interview with Diaby on the Pewter Report Podcast on our PewterReportTV Youtube channel by clicking the hyperlink beneath.