Unleash the Hammer

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(10-02-2024, 05:12 PM)jj22 Wrote: What did Burfict run again? Rey M? You don't have to be fast to do what we need a LB to do this game. You need to be physical and have no regards for your body. Charge downhill and blowup a full back, guard etc making sure the D don't get beat up the gut. Let them bounce outside. Leave the run stopping defensive ends and Wilson, Pratt, and the Safeties to defend the edge.

Pratt and Wilson while we praise them, can not and have not been able to stop the run. At all.

Neither were great in coverage to begin with, and neither would be able to be trusted with Lamar Jackson on the field. (Also Burfict ran his high and out of shape.)

Burfict was only around for 1 Lamar game and Lamar ran the ball 26 of the Ravens 53 times that game. As soon as running QBs commonly became a thing and the proliferation of fast RBs and TEs catching the ball became a thing, slow 250-260lb LBs stopped being a thing.

I still remember the Texans throwing to a RB that was running across the field on like 7 straight plays with Maualuga distantly trailing in coverage trying to keep up. They both would have been great LBs a decade before they entered the NFL.

Njongmeta isn't even a big slow 250-260lb bruising LB, he's just a slow 229lb LB. Would love to be wrong about him, but not holding my breath on him being some secret weapon/answer.