(08-28-2023, 11:15 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(08-28-2023, 09:45 AM)Mikey Wrote: This is the single strangest beef I can remember on this board. It's like this guy ran over your cat or something.

If you want a partial explanation, it is partly because he is not able to differentiate the bad play from Herndon while he was playing outside CB from the games when he played nickel. 

He sucked in coverage at nickel also - but percentage wise played better there. 

All of those references you've seen CJB make about Herndon "burned down the sideline" were mostly while Herndon played outside for a few games after Shaq Griffin was injured/demoted - but before the staff got wise and moved Williams outside and kicked Herndon inside. 

It is unfavorably coloring his opinion. 

If Herndon is our best option at nickel outside of the big nickel packages and any other clever zone stuff Caldwell implements, then it just is what it is. We'll get by the best we can. 

I think we'll simply be seeing a weekly shift in back seven packages according to the personnel and scheme we face in order to mitigate the lack of talent at slot defender. Not ideal - but we've long had much worse problems.