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I mean how would you even have time to practice something like that? The only way - I mean the ONLY way - I can see that even being a gleam in Spags eyes is if that's a play the Chiefs have seen on tape literally a dozen more more times this season. Like if they KNOW the Pats are going to run that play at some point and are going to run it out of that formation. Then MAYBE you do that. And even then, something tells me that the defensive version of running a screen pass is gonna implode horrifically far more often than it doesn't. The number of guys who would have to simultaneously make the correct call/read on that play is staggering. Nah, I don't think you could ever have an intentionally 'blown' coverage - the risk is just way too high. As for Ragland not being a coverage backer - you're correct, but look at the personnel group. That's their base formation and at that point, you have on the field who you have on the field. Ragland's been playing the SAM well for several weeks and if he's gonna be your SAM backer, well you have to treat him like one. And that means he's gonna have to occasionally cover that short zone, even if it's Edelman running through it. You look at the fact that he'd have had Breeland over top of him, Hitchens crashing the middle and even Thornhill evidently with a shade to the strong side...well you're not actually asking much of Ragland there. You're not really even asking him to break up a pass - just see if the guy cuts in front of you and if he catches it, de-cleat him. That's kinda all you ever ask of a SAM in an underneath zone like that. I don't think it's impossible.
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Not nearly as fun and interesting as the "lunatic genius" idea though. |
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Our corners and safeties have been fantastic. Get Fenton healthy, and we're set in the back end. With our front four playing really well and our linebackers looking better, of course our D is going to look good.
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Fenton is the one guy in this draft that I was like oh great pick, CARL, he's just gonna suck.
What a draft. It's as good as last year's is shitty. Hell even that Illinois center may eventually do something. Amazing. |
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I wonder a lot how much pull the defensive coordinators have in the draft. I mean, Veach did have a bad first draft but a great second draft. Was Bob Sutton pounding the table for Breeland Speaks and Dorian O'Daniel insisting that they would be a boost for his defense? I think that most of the rest of the people involved in the draft were relatively unchanged to the best of my knowledge. Defensive picks were overall bad during the entire Reid era until Sutton was replaced by Spags. Is it a coincidence?
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I haven’t paid enough attention to Edlemans career to know if he’s lost a step, but he hasn’t lost that much. I know he’s been injured and whatever but that ****ing guy is always open. Breeland made him look like a kid out there. Like blocking a 5th graders shot in basketball. Maybe it was more lucky than good but man it looked the part from the couch. I must reiterate, that bastard is always freaking open. And he looked silly there, where there was no slip or bumped off his route or anything. Dude looked silly. |
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Speaks is not a known quantity right now. He was miscast as a 3-4 OLB, but not as a 4-3 down lineman. He's been injured this year, and so we don't know what he is, really. I think Speaks was a pick for the future; for Veach and Andy's move to a 4-3. O'Daniel should've been Sorensen's replacement; basically your big safety/coverage backer. It doesn't seem that he's developed of course. But he's not a better fit in a 3-4 than a 4-3 skillset-wise. I think they were looking at skillsets in a general way in the '18 draft; I think the numbers favor a 4-3 IF half the league is running a 3-4. I don't think they knew exactly WHO yet or what sort of 4-3 they'd go to. This offseason, Spags was in pre-draft, and so I'm sure had some input on the shopping list. So it was a more targeted approach. It makes sense that it would be more successful. In short, I'm saying Sutton was a lame duck, they didn't draft anyone that last season for his 3-4, they drafted in a general way for a switch to the 4-3. |
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Ward, Fenton, Breeland, Claiborne/Fuller
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He was still hurt last year and his foot was clearly bothering him and he did NOT play this well last season.
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Sorenson is one of the better players on this defense. I am glad to have him on this defense
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He's never "sucked"
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So is Breeland just gone? He made so many huge plays down the stretch. I'd really hate to go into next season with what - Ward, Fenton, and some draft pick as our top 3 CBs?
It doesn't seem like Fuller has what it takes anymore to be an edge corner - and Fenton seems pretty solid in the slot CB role. |
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