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Message: <blockquote data-quote="easyk83" data-source="post: 568829" data-attributes="member: 8895">Well the plan to play a hybrid nickel doesn't strike me as a bad one with this defense. Peppers is an OLB who also has the size and length to be a legit 34 DE. The trouble is that when you have an NT getting pushed around like Guion was on reach blocks it's going to be tough to execute. I do suspect that Raji playing would have made our run defense look a lot better. I like the hybrid nickel and think it's a very flexible defense, but last night we didn't have the personnel to counter Seattle when they went big and ran over us. Whether youre running 24 nickel or 25 nickel you need at least one solid NT.In the past we played a lot of 24 nickel with basically two Nose tackles clogging the interior of the opponents O-line. This has worked in the past as long as we'd gotten great production from the NTs. Against Seattle we went smaller along the DL and bigger along the rest of our defense. Except for when we tried to counter their 2 tight end sets with a nickle defense they simply shoved us around.I like the idea of using Daniels at NT, with Pennell and Guion working in. I still like Datone Jones as a player but he has no business being on the field unless A) its part of the base defense or B) its an obvious passing down. Datone Jones trying to play 24 nickel on a run down, not going to be pretty.</blockquote>

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