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A few interesting reads by SI

He was a 2nd round draft pick by the Bills in '94 but only lasted a year with them. He's served as a scout for the Seahawks as well and I think I've seen him on NFL Network a couple of times recently.

I got his card in Indy but until those pieces I can't recall any of his work. Pretty good stuff though. I completely agree with all the offensive ones.

What is interesting about his defensive trends is that #1 and #4/#5 would seem to directly contradict one another. One of the characteristics of the Tampa 2 is that you don't need great man-on cover CBs, and that you have to have very good safeties. If the latter two were truly a prevailing trend it would seem that more teams would use the Tampa 2 defense, not less. Can you say "hybrid"?

Trends tend to flip flop....

As soon as all the offenses start to tailor their systems to beating the 3-4, the NFL will start to move towards 4-3 for example.

Interesting read, good stuff.

Eh...

I think for all of us that have posted on this thread...these are the things that we already know about ....

But it's good that it's finally appearing on mainstream media outlets....


Also... as for the TE prominence, anybody else think that this will end up making the OLB position evolve in its duties and the physical characteristics of the position?

J.Kim wrote:Eh...

I think for all of us that have posted on this thread...these are the things that we already know about ....

But it's good that it's finally appearing on mainstream media outlets....


Also... as for the TE prominence, anybody else think that this will end up making the OLB position evolve in its duties and the physical characteristics of the position?

I think we will see a hell of a lot more athletic LB's going early.