01-09-2017, 04:01 PM
(01-09-2017, 10:40 AM)Au165 Wrote: Don't want either Adams or Hooker. We have bigger needs in the front 7. When the front is getting pressure and the LB's can cover underneath it makes the back end look a lot better. The back half of the year the defense played better, but we need replacements for Maugham and Johnson, like it or not Williams and Illoka are young and have contracts in hand.
I do agree that we have much bigger needs upfront on both sides of the ball, but were trying to fit a square peg in a round role with putting Illoka or Williams at FS. Both are natural strong safeties and neither have a ton of range like the role of what Reggie Nelson did for us. If you add someone that can play centerfield to this defense, you will see a ton of pressure taken off the CB's.