(03-16-2019, 03:02 PM)B2hibry Wrote:

(03-16-2019, 12:27 PM)JackCity Wrote: What do you mean by a more traditional look? More base? Or just a bigger run stopper playing inside on base? 

Jack and Telvin are still the LBs 70% of the time and the guy playing inside on base still needs to be good at coverage or you'll get schemed to pieces by good OCs. I guess I'd be more inclined to leave Jack there

Yes, in a traditional 4/3 base formation. Schemed to pieces? What, like now? If I'm being honest, there is a lot of scheming on our part to gloss over Telvin's weaknesses like not getting off of blocks and lack of recovery when biting on play action. Teams are now exposing those weaknesses. Last year the Jags gave up a ton of explosive plays, both in run and pass.

Find the weakness and exploit it: Teams got out of 11 personnel which we match really well, to more 12, 21, and 22 which we don't match well because TEs kill Telvin and lighter CBs.

Anyways, with depth shrinking on the back end and LB play falling off, it would be rediculous to keep rolling with a 60%+ nickle and not address the heavier side. If you can get a big body ILB with above average speed, all the better (there are a few in this draft).

The amount of base we play is totally dependent on what the opponent uses though. So as long as we face 3 WR we'll have to counter most of the time with nickel or dime. So whatever happens it's Telvin and Jack as the backers for the vast majority of the time.

  Also, I don't have stats for  how well we did in specific personnel groupings but we had one of the best first down defenses in run and pass for most of the year i.e where our base defense is played the most

Agree Telvin was a mess last year , so much so that you'd question if he can even get back to being above average in coverage like he was in 2017, Jacks floor seems pretty high there thankfully. 

Having a new base Mike is fine but it's a tiny part of the defense so i wouldn't use much assets at all to fix it (Ryan may be a guy we pegged for that very role).

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