Let Me Tell You Something: Why DJ Reader Is the Missing Piece in Gannon's Defense
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal from Peshtigo is screaming at the ceiling fan, and Pac Nation, this one is keeping him up at night. The Giants just fumbled the bag on DJ Reader, and Brian Gutekunst's phone should already be lighting up.
In this fired-up rant, Sal lays out exactly why Green Bay's defensive line is missing its foundation:
🔨 Three 3-techs and zero true base down nose tackles on the roster — Wyatt, Hargrave, McClellan all the same body type 🚜 The pickup truck with no tailgate analogy that explains everything wrong with this D-line 🧊 Why the dirty work nobody sees on the stat sheet wins championships in Gannon's scheme
Forget the PFF grade. Forget the zero sacks. Sal makes the case for the 335-pound, 17-games-played, double-team-eating cinder block this defense is screaming for. With $21 million in cap space and a one-year team-friendly deal sitting right there, Sal has one message for Gutey: sign the man before the Giants come to their senses.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you something, Pac Nation, DJ Rita is sitting at home right now. |
| 0:15.4 | Still, 11 days after the draft, the phone is not ringing, the agent is not blowing up, and somewhere, |
| 0:22.5 | somewhere, Brian Woodycoons is holding his cell phone and he is thinking about it. |
| 0:28.4 | He is staring at it. |
| 0:29.8 | And I am up being Pestigo screaming at the television like it is third and one in the playoffs. |
| 0:35.3 | Pick it up, Brian. |
| 0:36.9 | Pick up the phone. Are you hearing me |
| 0:38.9 | on this one? You hearing me? Because Pac Nation, I have been losing sleep over this. I am not |
| 0:44.9 | making this up. I have laid awake. I have stood at the ceiling. I have had entire conversations |
| 0:50.7 | with my ceiling fan about DJ Reader. Let me lay it out for you. |
| 0:55.4 | 2025 season. DJ Reader plays 17 games for the Detroit Lions. 17. The man is 31 years old, |
| 1:04.9 | 335 pounds, suited up every single Sunday and played the fourth most A-gap snaps in the entire NFL. |
| 1:14.2 | The fourth out of every defensive tackle on every roster in this league. |
| 1:19.7 | Fort, and this is not some flash in the pan, one good season meatball. |
| 1:24.9 | This guy replaced Vince Wilfork as the nose tackling Houston. |
| 1:29.3 | Wilfork. Then he goes to Cincinnati, helps him get to a Super Bowl. Then he goes to |
| 1:34.4 | Detroit on a two-year deal, plays 16 games his first season, plays 17 last year. He is durable. |
| 1:42.3 | He is a leader. He was a Walter Payton man of the year nominee on two |
| 1:46.9 | different teams. The man is a pillar. And the giants, those Jaglobs and East Rutherford, they had |
| 1:54.6 | them on the line. They were rumored to be the team. Everybody and their grandmother said Rita |
| 2:00.3 | was going to New York. And what did |
| 2:02.1 | those clowns do? They signed two other tackles. They drafted another nose. They had the bag |
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