Who we keeping at LBer ?

[fredtoast]

(01-16-2019, 10:29 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: A good example of a Bengal that would make mistakes but played fast and hard is Odell Thurman.  He wasn't the classic Thumper, but at 6'0", 230 lbs, that guy was a menace.  He had 5 INTs and 5 FF in his rookie season.  Sure, he had tons of issues off the field, sadly, that ended his career, but I remember Marv would always be on him to play more disciplined and I was thinking "Shut up, Marv! Take a page our of Jimmy Johnson's playbook!" He wanted guys to be playmakers and play fast, not timid.

Thurman made 10 plays to force turnovers, but the fact that he was out of position so often on the other 900 plays was a big reason we had the 28th ranked defense in the league.  Just look at what happened in the playoff game when Odell did not force any turnovers.  I think the Steelers score on every drive in the second half.

Being out of position has zero to do with being timid.  Both Jimmy Johnson and Marvin Lewis want guys to play with aggression but also to do their job.  Johnson would never have said "I don't care if you ignore your assignment as long as you are running around like crazy."