12-21-2018, 07:32 PM
(12-21-2018, 07:25 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Bengals can't even field 3 good LBs, so lets field 4? No thanks.
Finally found a decent DE in Hubbard to go opposite Dunlap, and now you want the 270lb Hubbard to play in coverage? That is a Atkins-dropping-into-coverage level of bad idea. All around the league LBs are getting smaller and faster to cover RBs and TEs, and here is 270lb Hubbard who didn't even run a 40 at the Combine. Pass. Hard pass.
Sign a good FA LB, and draft two more in the first four rounds. Nobody in the current group is worth keeping around. (Assuming we are calling Lawson a DE, not a LB.)
All linebackers aren’t created equal when it comes to scheme.
No, not really Atkins esque at all. 3-4 OLB are anywhere from 245-270. They tend to not be asked to do what your inside guys get asked to to do. They do a lot of spot coverage with an occasional HB out the backfield. It’s why a lot of teams will draft DE from college to play as 3-4 OLB and same thing the other way.
