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Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic
The defense has been much better the last 3 games, but the opposing teams have had a lot of near misses that had nothing to do with our defense.
Is it just me, or do our outside corners seem to never turn their heads to locate the ball when they are running down field with a receiver? It seems like we are often right with the receiver, but we never look back to try and locate the ball, which results in too many DPI penalties.
I remember watching Albert Lewis, Kevin Ross, Dale Carter, James Hasty, etc. play CB, and in my memories they would turn their heads so they could make a play on the ball.
I also remembered William Bartee and his inability to turn his head, and getting burnt like toast game after game.
Does this coaching staff teach the DBs to focus on the receiver, instead of playing the ball?
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well, you're right of course.
But, to be fair, some of that is the change in PI rules. Those guys could run into receivers and it wasn't a penalty, it was 'incidental contact'...and they'd do it on purpose sometimes and claim it was an accident to disrupt the play.
You get called on that now, so you kind of have to keep your eyes on the reciever when you're in man until the last second and then try to locate the ball.
It's tougher to play CB in this NFL than those guys' version.
Still, yeah, definitely room for improvement although they're all better than Steven Nelson.
