(04-26-2020, 04:54 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(04-26-2020, 04:47 PM)jj82284 Wrote: IIRC the jags view the two safety spots as more interchangeable.  There are very few true centerfielder FS anymore.  Players with that kind of size nd athleticism get pushed to corner in the college system to matchup with the bigger receivers.   If the were a prospect that ticked all of the ED Reed boxes they would have drafted him. But I haven't seen that player in a long time.

They keep saying they'll play them more interchangeably the past two or three offseasons -- but they still call an awful lot of coverages with a single high safety and Wilson showed some pretty ugly angles to the ball from those coverages last year. That's why I'm being a bit harp-ish on the topic. 

I wonder if that's more of an indictment on the team's dissatisfaction, or lack of excitement, towards Wilson's skill-level than anything else. Wasn't the talk most last off-season about Harrison being the FS and Wilson being the SS, even though most pegged Harrison as a more-traditional SS? I know Harrison showed some ballhawk skills, but I seem to remember most of this board, at least, thinking Wash was using Harrison and Wilson in reverse. I wonder if they "stopped" that "experiment" not because Wilson was better as the FS, or as a single-high safety than Harrison, but because Wilson didn't hold up in-the-box or against the run as well as Harrison manned the single-high spot (in other words: the dropoff from Harrison to Wilson at SS was significantly more drastic than the dropoff from Wilson to Harrison at FS).

Perhaps we see the team try to move Harrison back over to FS, where they seemed to like him, and one of the newcomers take Harrison's spot as the more-traditional SS?

(Note: I used "SS" and "FS" for convenience purposes. I realize that the team, at least, tries to use the two roles more interchangeably than say in the days of Darius and Grant. But for purposes of this post, it seemed easier to distinguish by just using the two commonly accepted names for their roles.)

(Unrelated, but necessary aside: your new signature is filthy NYC. I can't tell you how many times I've planned to respond to a post in a thread, saw your sig, watched it about 10 times, and just felt too giddy to bother putting any thought into a response after.)

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