Quick 3 round mock

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(01-24-2019, 03:17 PM)Au165 Wrote: This is where stats without context get you in trouble. Perryman got hurt mid year which is why he only played 37% of TOTAL SNAPS, however before he got hurt he played on average around 70% of the snaps in each game with most far beyond 70%. When you take into account the commonly held understanding that nickle is the new base the fact you have two backers who averaged about 70% playing time then sprinkled in another 3 or 4 guys with significant playing time you can discern that they played a lot of nickle with occasional base. They also used James as a sub LB at times, especially after Perryman went down.

Playing nickle or even dime is a far cry from NO BACKERS, which is what they ran in the playoffs. It's a gimmick and it got exposed and would have gotten exposed by any decent O coordinator. 

I don't think anyone is advocating no backers for a base defense.

I'm also not sure where you are arriving at your conclusions about the Chargers from.

Let's look at the snap count % by position group for a team we all watch a lot, the Bengals.

DL-402.38%
LB-228.70%
CB-262.44%
S-206.37%

No big surprises here.  The Bengals are almost always running 4 DL and 2 S's, and we know they run 3 CB nickel base over 2/3 of the time.  

Look at SD's

DL-382.82%
LB-159.28%
CB-275.87%
S-273.36%

Statistically speaking, the Chargers are running only 1 LB more often than the Bengals are running 3. They are running a 3rd S almost as much as a 3rd CB and more often than a 2nd LB, and they run a 3rd CB more than the Bengals do.