Quote:Regardless of anyone's feelings or evaluation of Poz, that first bolded statement is a gross over-simplification of the issue.  Your point is still valid, it's just not as all-encompassing and widespread as you suggest.  Poz was  not able to affect completions to TEs in his zone as frequently as you would like to see happen from a highly paid MLB.  That was true on at least a dozen occasions over the past two seasons by my estimation.  And it is an issue. However- 

"Many of the big gains happening right over the middle" is way too broad a stroke and includes many more players screwing up.  Especially the safeties. 

 

In regard to the second bolded statement (well,both statements really) -  Did you notice where New England targeted the Seahawks defense heavily in their Super Bowl win?  

Right over the middle. It's a weakness in this Bradley/Carroll scheme.  The teams that have played Seattle well in the past couple of years have figured that out -  and last year we saw more teams at least try to do it. Dallas did it very well also. 

Obviously - it's easier to capitalize upon such a weakness when facing the '14  Jags LB rotation and safeties than Seattles finely tuned machine.  

 

Poz isn't going to pass cover like Bobby Wagner, but he can do a good job for the Jags until they find their own Bobby Wagner. Lord knows they don't grow on trees. 

Poz led the LBs in ints and pass defenses, so he was obviously more effective in coverage than our other LBs.

 

When you MLB is getting stuck covering TEs, that means either a S or OLB has blown his assignment or the other team is exploiting a flaw in the scheme.

 

What happened to the good ole days when the board was blaming our Safeties or OLBs for not covering TEs? Poz comes along and it's suddenly all his fault. Oh yeah, it's because Alfie said so.

 

The reality is that people on this board have no clue as to who is responsible for covering what. If they did, you wouldn't keep hearing the coaching staff gushing over Poz and he wouldn't be getting an extension, he would be getting replaced.

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