Dhani Jones tackles Ogbuehi

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(10-18-2016, 07:16 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Smart player who was below average physically. He replaced Caleb Miller, thus looked better by default. Dhani was on the street for 18 days after he was cut by the Saints during final roster cuts. That was the 2nd time he'd been cut in 5 months (he was released earlier by the Eagles). He wasn't getting interest and was mulling retirement when we came calling. I'd say he did a serviceable job overall for us and was a good mentor for Maualuga. Certainly nothing special though.

As a person, he seemed like a good guy though. Very likable.

There is a tendency on this forum to overrate physicality and underrate football smarts. That's why both Dhani and Crocker get dissed a lot. The simplest way to get the value of both to the D is that before Zimmer basically made Dhani the QB of the front 7 we had major problems with getting snookered by misdirection, taking bad angles and just broken plays and after he did it those issues almost totally disappeared. Ditto Crocker in the secondary. Both of them set the alignments of their respective units and both were excellent at getting players positioned properly for the play.

Part of our issue this season is that while Burflict had taken over that role in the front seven his suspension meant we did not have him for a while and he is rusty. Meanwhile there is no one doing that in the secondary.