croxeye
Cheesehead
IMO this man stands the most to gain from the switch to the 3-4 than most of our defenders.
If you watch film on him on primarily running plays (any 3rd/4th and short pretty much) you can see him getting pushed around by RT's and/OR letting RT's just blaze by him and kill poppinga/chillar which was pretty much any zone away from his side, OR any regular running play they would run right at him because they know he's undersized and he doesn't do to well in keeping OT's out of the 2nd level, and believe me, these guys can WREAK HAVOC when they reach the LB'ers. However I do give him his credit because he is a very sound tackler and doesn't let a lot of plays just bounce off of his chest (*cough*montgomery*cough*) and he sometimes saves the plays that he almost busted with the coverage (or in this case noncoverage) of the OT's.
Now with the switch to the 3-4, he's an OLB and he doesn't need to worry about lining up off of OT's and trying to keep them off the LB'ers behind him, in this case, since he's a sound tackler, he just needs to focus on not overpersuing plays and play the cutback lane. Oh yeah, living in the opponents backfield helps too.
IMO he's a great sack artist, I'm not denying that, however his run game needed some work, and now that he's a OLB he can get a little coaching from my man Kevine Greene and put fear in those backfields.
If you watch film on him on primarily running plays (any 3rd/4th and short pretty much) you can see him getting pushed around by RT's and/OR letting RT's just blaze by him and kill poppinga/chillar which was pretty much any zone away from his side, OR any regular running play they would run right at him because they know he's undersized and he doesn't do to well in keeping OT's out of the 2nd level, and believe me, these guys can WREAK HAVOC when they reach the LB'ers. However I do give him his credit because he is a very sound tackler and doesn't let a lot of plays just bounce off of his chest (*cough*montgomery*cough*) and he sometimes saves the plays that he almost busted with the coverage (or in this case noncoverage) of the OT's.
Now with the switch to the 3-4, he's an OLB and he doesn't need to worry about lining up off of OT's and trying to keep them off the LB'ers behind him, in this case, since he's a sound tackler, he just needs to focus on not overpersuing plays and play the cutback lane. Oh yeah, living in the opponents backfield helps too.
IMO he's a great sack artist, I'm not denying that, however his run game needed some work, and now that he's a OLB he can get a little coaching from my man Kevine Greene and put fear in those backfields.