10-23-2019, 05:54 PM
(10-21-2019, 04:59 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't know what to think about our defense. Guys who have played well before like Jackson, Kirkpatrick, and Bates really bad at times.
I never thought Brown was a great player, but he may not be as bad as he looks playing in this system for these coaches. Like our DBs, both Vigil and Brown have seemed slow to react and out of position. I don't know if they are really that bad or if they are just being given bad reads/keys our are lined up out of position to begin with.
If coaching is about putting players in a position to excel and maximize their talents then someone is letting Brown down.
I was probably a bigger supporter of Rey Mauluga then most and he was a better LB .vs. run than Brown ever has been IMHO...and when we had Tez and the likes of Lamur, Thomas Howard he could come off the field in passing situations so he was less exposed.
Towards the end of his career at the bengals he drew a lot of board angst for not covering TE and RBs in the flat - but that was never his game - that was not his fault.
Why we were/are are running brown out there in a 2 LB system is beyond me.
