You don't have to be a Coughlin/Cashman playmaker type with 10 sacks and 15 TFL's a year to be a difference maker. You just have to do your job, be responsible for your gap, take blockers on with your outside shoulder instead of inside etc. Plus he has over 100 tackles and 10 TFls the last two years.
I'd like to think that if Kamal were in the game instead of Rush at 3:37 of the video, the first play of the game where we gave up a 25 yard run, he would have taken the outside shoulder of the lineman and kept contain allowing for Howden to clean the play up. Instead he breaks contain, tries to make the big play and goes underneath the blocker, gets pancaked by the second guy and there is no one outside of him to hold the edge.
I'd like to think that Kamal at 39:28 would have been more patient and let the RB out of the backfield come to him instead of biting so hard on the run like Oliver did.
I'd like to think that Kamal at 28:30 would have lined up in his gap that the play came through all along instead of originally lining up on the WR and sprinting to where you are suppose to be.
I'd like to think that Kamal at 45:04 would have realized the TE was his guy to cover sooner instead of being too late.
Of course Kamal hasn't been a huge playmaker so far but its little things like the one's above where maybe a senior LB who has played in 37 career games and started 13 picks up on. Of course maybe he doesn't and we'll never know for sure I'd like to think that on at least some of those plays, Kamal doesn't make the same mistake as a guy who's getting his very first LB snaps in college.
