Quick 3 round mock

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(01-24-2019, 08:54 PM)Au165 Wrote: Looking at the game by game logs it appears the Chargers added the third safety beyond 20% a game or so once Perryman got hurt. Reading back to articles it sounds like it was a bit of necessity due to coverage concerns with their Lbs.

My point was you claimed they “ran it all year” and they really didnt. They ran a little more big nickle than most but again it’s skewed a bit when they  lost Perryman injury. To my point teams will run over light personnel like the patriots did. Part of the issue at times is people like to do what they Do vs what teams give them versus the Pats who attack your weaknesses. I’d imagine if they show a ton of dime personnel next year they will get attacked.

Again, the Cards are ready to punt on the Buccanon experiment same with the Burnett thing in Pitt. Chargers got away with it a to an extent I wouldn’t go chasing it, especially as colleges are producing more smaller LBs who can run but already know how to stack and shed.

As a side note football outsiders does a really good analysis of this every off season. I’ll be interested to see how the break down their personnel groupings week by week and see how it matches with what I see looking at individual game logs.

That still doesn't explain away the vast snap count differences.  While they did rely on it more after the Perryman injury, they used it quite a bit before, depending on the opponent.  For example, look at the snap counts from their week 6 win over Cleveland...


James, FS 100%
Addai, SS 92%
Hayward, CB 91%
Phillips, SS 88%
King, CB 85%
Williams, CB 80%
Perryman, LB 66%
Jenkins, FS 34%
Davis, CB 30%
Emmanuel, LB 20%
Nwoso, LB, 15%
Facyson, CB 3%

Only 3 LB's saw defensive snaps the entire game, playing 66, 20, and 15% of the snaps, respectively.  Meanwhile, 3 CB's and 3 S's all played over 80% of the snaps.  The total percentage by group looks like...

S-314%
CB-289%
LB-101%

That would make their statistical average personnel grouping 3 S's, 3 CB's, and 1 LB.

The Chargers and Steelers both had top 10 defenses incorporating this concept.  The Steelers aren't giving up on it, per say.  Burnette just doesn't want to play the position.  They also toyed with using Polamalu in this fashion at the end of his career.