Seahawk fan here. I've been following news of your team since the Jags hiring of Gus Bradley. I'm sure i'm not the only one.

 

I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed i, and many of my fellow Hawk fans were, to learn that we had release Big Red. He was an absolute leader both on and off the field and one of the fan favorites to emerge from our new regime under Pete Carrol and John Schneider.

 

Bryant started out as a DT and almost flunked out of the league. In a weird experiment he was moved to DE and emerged as an absolute beast of a run stuffer.

Let be clear, even though he is a DE, he is not a pass rusher. You should not expect him to be. What you can expect is for him to be a monster space eater against the run and instant improvement in this regard. He is exremely strong and able to eat up multiple blockers like a DT, only he does from the end position.

 

The other on field area he excells at is blocking kicks. I've seen him two it many times with great success.

 

He is not an elephant, or a leo. Those are two names for the same position that are a primarly super athletic pass rushers from the weak-side DE positition.

Elephant was the original name and was called this solely to distinguish it as a "Special End" position to avoid confusion. On chalkboards it was noted as "EL". Pete Caroll (Or an influence on him),switched the name to LE or LEO. Its stictly a shorthand way of speaking. It's not an abbreviation as far as i know. It's similar to the linebacker names of

 

SAM - Stongside Linebacker

MIKE- Middle Linebacker

WILL - Weakside Linebacker

 

So you add in:

LEO - Weakside DE Pass Rushing Specialist

 

Here is Pete talking about the Elephant:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9tZO223Khk

 

Here is a little bit more about the LEO when it was introduced to Seahawk Fans. My understanding is that Gus is running a very similar system to what Seattle had from 2010 to 2012. We now have Dan Quinn, who is a bit more aggressive in the pass rush than Gus but still adheres to Pete Carroll's defense.

 

http://www.seahawks.com/news/articles/ar...6c2c813322

 

And here is a bit more about the Hawks Base Defense as a whole. I think you'll notice many similarities. Good luck to you guys:

 

http://www.fieldgulls.com/2011/5/31/2191...troduction

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