JBlood
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Thank you, Sir. Totally agree with "it ALL starts at the line of scrimmage".Great stats, JBlood.
Thank you, Sir. Totally agree with "it ALL starts at the line of scrimmage".Great stats, JBlood.
Yes, the defense has improved. But not enough, not yet anyway.Currently, FO has us as the 18th ranked defense in the league--23rd against the run, 15th against the pass. At the end of last year the defense ranked 31st--30th against the run, 28th against the pass.
I kind of liked the "Nascar" line of Matthews,Neal, Peppers and Perry. It would be even more interesting to see those 4 as linebackers behind 3 d linemen. Neal and Peppers can move better than Hawk and others in coverage; and they could get pressure up the middle as well. Wouldn't hurt to try it. They are our best 4 linebackers.
That very well may be true, but none of the other weird schemes Capers comes up with seem to work so what the hay, give it a try.While I like the NASCAR package as well on obvious passing downs there´s no way the Packers could line up those four guys at LB. While it´s possible to drop one of them into coverage in some packages from the OLB position they would get exposed by TEs or RBs if they line up inside constantly.
That very well may be true, but none of the other weird schemes Capers comes up with seem to work so what the hay, give it a try.
...they would get exposed by TEs or RBs if they line up inside constantly.
I don't' disagree with what you're saying, but we don't have middle linebackers able to cover RBs or TEs; making them the weakest part of our pass defense.
Yeah, Borland is a tackling machine, which we could use. TT has swung and missed on his top draft picks the last few years. Kind of ironic that linebackers are our weakness in view of TT being a former linebacker himself.The 49ers love Borland right now, he really has shown promise as a rookie