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<blockquote data-quote="mradtke66" data-source="post: 926820" data-attributes="member: 4199"><p>As an ILB, meh at best.</p><p></p><p>Yes he continued to get sacks when he moved there, but </p><p></p><p>a: Rushing the passer as an ILB is a tertiary benefit. </p><p>b: He still got plenty of snaps at EDGE when the Packers played dime.</p><p></p><p>He was okay dropping into zone coverage, but to my eye, he was doing stuff on instinct, not necessarily to scheme. On one hand, it shows his football IQ. On the other, if he's not where he is "supposed" to be, teams will pick on him. I suspect this is what happened. He got that early pick against the Bears and then did little else. </p><p></p><p>For man coverage, nope. He didn't have the right kind of athletic talents for that. 1-2 times a game to keep them honest, sure. Little more than that.</p><p></p><p>IMHO, they rushed him so much from ILB because he was bad enough in coverage that rushing 5 was seen as the least-bad option.</p><p></p><p>For the running game, he was kind of lost. He made good plays because he was fast, but if you watch recordings of his time at ILB, there was a lot of false steps, picking the wrong hole to fill, etc. He made it work because of how athletic he was, but he had terrible fundamentals for an Off The Ball Linebacker. Which lead to the 2 games w/o a tackle.</p><p></p><p>My second **: People we just happy to have someone with a pulse at ILB that year. We were sufficiently bad that as bad as Clay was, he was still head and shoulders better than everyone else we trotted out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mradtke66, post: 926820, member: 4199"] As an ILB, meh at best. Yes he continued to get sacks when he moved there, but a: Rushing the passer as an ILB is a tertiary benefit. b: He still got plenty of snaps at EDGE when the Packers played dime. He was okay dropping into zone coverage, but to my eye, he was doing stuff on instinct, not necessarily to scheme. On one hand, it shows his football IQ. On the other, if he's not where he is "supposed" to be, teams will pick on him. I suspect this is what happened. He got that early pick against the Bears and then did little else. For man coverage, nope. He didn't have the right kind of athletic talents for that. 1-2 times a game to keep them honest, sure. Little more than that. IMHO, they rushed him so much from ILB because he was bad enough in coverage that rushing 5 was seen as the least-bad option. For the running game, he was kind of lost. He made good plays because he was fast, but if you watch recordings of his time at ILB, there was a lot of false steps, picking the wrong hole to fill, etc. He made it work because of how athletic he was, but he had terrible fundamentals for an Off The Ball Linebacker. Which lead to the 2 games w/o a tackle. My second **: People we just happy to have someone with a pulse at ILB that year. We were sufficiently bad that as bad as Clay was, he was still head and shoulders better than everyone else we trotted out. [/QUOTE]
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