09-07-2024, 04:49 PM
(09-07-2024, 02:50 PM)samhain Wrote: How many AFCN teams did we play in preseason? Not a great vindication of the run game. What happened there is zero indication of what we will face when games begin to matter.
The Reader issue is less about him being gone and more about the fact that he was not replaced. There's not currently a NT on this roster. Not great for the kind of division we play in.
We did not need to replace him with a NT, we now have Rankins, who is admittedly more of a 3T, but is very good against the run and much much better in getting penetration into the backfield. While Reader may have been a stone wall at the line of scrimmage, I hope to see Rankins making the tackles behind the line of scrimmage.
Here are clips of him working against Cappa, who is no slouch....
