A couple of days after Curry was allegedly being floated around in trade talks, Billy and Jerry decided to award Curry with his highest snap total of the year. 34 (36% of defensive snaps) by Sheil and Tim's count . If you are into this kind of thing, PFF graded Curry with 1 sack and 5 hurries on 25 pass rushing opportunities for a pass rusher rating of +2.6 .

While those ones might be a little more fun to watch on the surface, those were more of the reckless Vinny Curry days where he was playing a lot of aggressive one-gap football exploding off the LOS. However, as I noted in those previous posts, while that might be fun to watch, it might not have been exactly what Billy Davis was looking for. Sometimes it was what Billy was looking for, but it made Curry somewhat one-dimensional and his snaps were limited because he was only getting to play on more obvious passing downs.

This past week, we are starting to see the evolution of Vinny Curry's game. A couple notable things to point out. Billy Davis is finding different ways to get him on the field. In the Raiders game alone, Vinny played LDE, RDE, and NT in the 3-4. He also played DT in 4-3 alignments. As a result, he isn't really competing for snaps as much against guys like Fletcher Cox and Ced Thornton who are playing great this year. Sometimes he is playing with them, and Billy and Azz are doing a great job of rotating that DL often.

So what I saw this week which was most encouraging was Vinny buying into the technique and gameplan. No longer is this a guy who is only exploding through a gap and trying to get pressure on the QB. You see in the video below how Vinny is showing improving technique when he is playing 2-gap, you can also see him executing the gameplan on some plays where the Eagles were employing the mush rush, and of course we also get some one-gap explosion from Vinny as well. In the end, overall he was a pretty active pass rusher for us on Sunday. It's always difficult when you are playing against a mobile QB who doesn't tend to sit in the pocket. I think all and all this an encouraging sign for more playing time for Vinny Curry moving forward: