05-15-2019, 11:07 AM
(05-14-2019, 09:48 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Michael Johnson had 467 snaps last season and a large portion of the was at RDE a tad over 41% of our plays on defense and he was largely ineffective.
Hardy Nickerson had 538 snaps at LBer almost 48% of the defensive snaps and he was very, very bad.
Vontaze Burfict had 298 snaps, over 26% of the defensive plays and he wasn't even a shadow of his former self.
Just replacing these threes snaps with even average players improves our D, a lot !
Ya see one thing people tend to not give enough weight to is the domino effect. You have one guy on D not getting it done it makes it tough on the remaining ten. You have two guys it's a herculean task to overcome. You have three, forget it ! There's just no way 8 guys can play D facing 11.
To your last paragraph... You could literally see it on Dumlap and Geno's faces last season. It's hard to give 100% when the QB can just dump it off over your head at will.
Poo Dey
