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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 497574" data-attributes="member: 4300">Ketchman has an interesting article (already linked on this site) on Datone Jones calling him a “new age” defender. Capers plays “sub packages” (nickel and dime usually with 2 down DL) more than the 3-4 but against read-option QBs and teams which emphasize the run like the Vikings, he plays more 3-4. “Okie” refers to one of two versions of the 3-4 Capers uses, the other being “Eagle”. In the Okie, both DEs line up directly over the OTs and the NT is directly over the OC.   Ketchman writes the Packers picked Jones instead of Sly Williams because Williams is a conventional “old age” DE. Ketchman argues Jones is the new prototype: That definitely gives Capers more flexibility and if Jones is as advertised, better pressure on the QB as one of the DL in the sub packages.   It sounds like Jones has a good attitude and was accomplished on the field. I didn’t watch him play at all last season but I like what I’m hearing and reading about him. </blockquote>

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