03-05-2020, 10:38 AM
(03-05-2020, 10:07 AM)fredtoast Wrote: The NFL is a copycat league. Whenever somoen has a good new idea other teams immediately start doing the same.
So anyone see any other teams using 5 D-linemen like Lou did at the start of last season?
I am afraid Anarumo is in over his head. No telling what he menas by "hybrid" when he talks about a "3-4 hybrid". Last year fans were making jokes about dropping Hubbard into coverage, now they seem to think it is a great idea.
I'm not an X's and O's guy by any means, but when I saw Lou putting 5 DLmen out there, my only thought was he was just trying to get our best players on the field after realizing in training camp and preseason that we had no competent LB's to run any type of legit scheme around. Preston Brown was terrible, like literally embarrassingly awful. Vigil is decent with good LBs around him, and Pratt was totally green. It hurt the entire defense. Honestly when we let Brown go, I felt like there was a little bit of improvement just with that alone. As Pratt started playing better, Vigil even started looking better and so did the rest of the guys. Hardy Nickerson played way better than Brown, thats how bad Brown was.
I dont think we will know the real verdict on Lou until he has a complete roster on defense. I felt like our defensive roster was incomplete last year, with the LB situation. Its hard to judge a coach who was brought into that situation and had little time to fix it after he was hired. The lack of talent at LB had nothing to do with Lou or Taylor. That was all Marvin the LB whisperer.
