05-03-2024, 02:24 PM
(05-02-2024, 06:19 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Should be happy.
The first two LBs drafted this year were Edgerrin Cooper and Junior Colson.
Just so happens both of those guys got to play behind our two new DTs, Jackson at Texas a&m with Cooper and Jenkins at Michigan with Colson.
Am I right to think those first two LBs got drafted early thanks in part to our two rookie DTs doing the dirty work and keeping them clean? Sure they are awesome players on their own, but I don’t know if they get a chance to shine so bright without big time DT play helping them.
An excellent point. Sure helps Linebackers when the D-line can take up blocks so they don't have to shed so many. Both Jenkins
and Jackson were excellent at doing this at the very least. Communication should be much better this year with Bell back, Stone
and Rankins added and the youth in the Secondary having a year in the system.
Like I have said before, players like Logan Wilson and Germaine Pratt just didn't forget how to play football. They will be watching
their tape and learning from what they did wrong last year. Angles and tackling were poor on their part. Logan was hurt and it
showed big time. Don't know what Germaine's excuses are though...
