Yeah I don't know about you guys but I thought moving a lock down corner like jenkins who also is so physical to saftey was the dumbest thing I've seen outta our dcoordinators last year. When jenkins plays his natural position it makes the other offenses very predictable to which side of the field theyr'e going to go (away from him). Now I understand that putting him in the middle they were hoping they couldn't avoid him, but that just made jenkins less effective because he was covering a ton more ground. jenkins can essentially, when playing corner, shut down 1/4 of the field. which is a lot easier to do that rather than having so much backfield to cover as a saftey.
I'd love to see both moeller/hines grab that starting nickle position. With Clifford maybe being out for the year, and chikwa moving into a starting roll with washington maybe being out for the year that really opens up the door for them. There was 5 possible nickle backs in that article ( o'neal, chikwa, clifford, moeller, and hines) with two maybe beign suspended and the other moving into a starting role the nickle spot has over night gone to a two man race between #26 and #7. I like the idea of having a very fast LB at the nickle spot. This way we can add more size to our secondary so in any case of someone running against our nickle defense will now be a lot harder to do. On a personal note i hope tyler wins the job because of how people talk of his speed and the motor that he has. It'd be great to see his hard work finally get rewarded here..
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