Quote:Since Jalen came forward with his criticism of the scheme (i.e. don't get beat deep, give up the short stuff), is it possible that Prince may have been affected by the same defensive game plan?


It's entirely within the realm of possibility he might excel in a scheme where he can be more aggressive by design.

 

I do indeed believe that both Prince and Jalen would benefit by playing more press/man and less zone.  

(Though Jalen started to show more and more awareness in zone as the year progressed,  Amukamara wasn't as quick to adjust - and he also got beat in man coverage a bit too often for my taste as well. He was worlds better than House or Gratz though!)

 

They did both play a pretty solid amount of man coverage in 2016 however. It's not like they were constantly in zone, it was just frustrating to watch Wash take his foot off of the gas defensively sometimes -  and if was frustrating to me it must have been 100x more so to those guys. 

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