Just going off perception, but it seems to me that the majority of your "impact" players will come from either the ends or LB's. I just don't recall a huge number of guys on the interior line that could really take over a game or be game changers. Nick Fairley and N'DummyKong Shoe are the two obvious ones that come to mind. Special players who could flat out beat the guy in front of them and destroy a QB or RB.
I assume it's because as a DT, you're normally caught inside, trying to get past guys who are on the average, a good bit bigger than you, while a DE is usually much faster than the tackle with much more space in which to use that quickness. Honestly, if our tackles could play close to guys we've had in the past like, Josh Thompson, DeMarco McNeil and...oh shift...Tommy? Played at Opelika I think. Went to the Falcons....Tommy...? (Maybe it wasn't Tommy....TJ?) Damn it....brain fart. Anyway, guys who could make a big play every now and then but for the most part, you just weren't coming between the tackles.
I'd be cool with that. But last year, our tackles were playing on skates.