01-24-2019, 10:55 AM
(01-23-2019, 11:01 PM)Whatever Wrote: Morgan Burnett has been playing nickel LB for the Steelers. He's requested his release as a result. The Chargers played 7 DB's for 58 of 59 defensive snaps in their WC win over the Ravens, using S's as LB's. They didn't put a single LB on the field 2/3 of the time.
Chargers then tried it again the next week and got run over in embarrassing fashion. The reason it was ran against Baltimore was they needed to match Jackson's speed. The reason it wasn't exposed against Baltimore is that the Raven never attacked it with a power running game instead choosing to run more finesse concepts. The gimmick of the Safety at LB was short lived across the league after popping up a bit a few years back. Buchanon has kind of washed out with rumors Arizona wants to move on from him. An occasional sub package isn't bad but trying to play a safety at LB long term won't work because those guys have never had to stack and shed playing the secondary really. There only real engagement with linemen in the secondary is sealing the edge and when they want to seal the edge they will normally cut the offensive linemen. LB's have to use their hands to get off blocks and it something that is often why LB's fail but just hoping a safety can learn it is wishful thinking in most cases.
In terms of Adderly I see they are playing him at CB a bit at the senior bowl. That interests me a bit with versatility wise of CB/S. We can go with a big nickle package, so a 2nd round pick for him I'd be open to.
