Atkins and Dunlap Frustrated with Being Phased Out

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(10-20-2020, 10:20 AM)Hoofhearted Wrote: That and if you lose games in spite of disciplining, that's not really going to win you a lot of respect with these guys. I don't mind him punishing him, but it only looks like the right call when the results are there. What player is going to trust his decision making when he's losing like this? It's just a fine line to walk in the NFL. It's why being a leader of grown ass men that play a violent sport is incredibly difficult. 

Yep.

You expect that if you pay someone $10+ mill a year, you get good production from them.
If you bench them, you are guaranteed to not get production from them.

For Dunlap and Atkins specifically, you have guys getting more snaps over them who have lower ceilings and lower floors, so it doesn't really make sense to play the guys they are playing (Amani Bledsoe, Xavier Williams) over Dunlap and Atkins.

As for Dunlap being frustrated playing OLB...I am surprised he's not playing 3-4 DE given his size. He's almost perfect for that, no?

3-4 lineup could be:
NT = Covington
DEs = Dunlap, Atkins
OLBs = Lawson, Hubbard (Bledsoe or Kareem until Hubbard is back)
ILBs = Bynes, Pratt