05-06-2024, 02:50 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.
I think it means something
Wilson and Pratt both seemed to fall off a tiny bit last year. Idk if that was them or a total lack of trust in the safeties to do their part so they did things differently.
When you know your SS is gonna come down into the gaps and stop shit you may operate differently after the snap than you would if you had no faith your safeties could make a tackle. You’d take different angles and you’d be way more aggressive as you think you are the only one that will make a play.
-Housh
