12-03-2018, 03:27 PM
(12-03-2018, 02:31 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Could this be because he (now) knows he's under a microscope and will get flagged for any ounce of aggressiveness and therefore has become extremely timid?
Not in this case. This is strictly talking about how he takes on blockers, which he has never been fined for hitting an oncoming blocker too hard. He gets to easily blocked and doesn't stack and shed at all anymore he just kind of lets them take him out of the play. To the tackling point, the guy has never been a good tackler he is a good hitter. We saw that on display this weekend when he laid himself out hitting the TE. When he is asked to wrap up and make a tackle in space he simply can't, he just dives at legs.
Honestly I think his big hits along with a better defense around him just did a good job of disguising his inadequacies in the past. I will say that he did know the defense front and back early on and that probably helped in be in better positions to start when he first got here.
