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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I noticed it about 5 weeks ago when I was trying to do a deep dive on how inexplicably bad our run D is.
Jones does that a LOT. He splits when his job is to engage and force a gap for the ILB to fill in. When he splits, the ILB has to guess or, more often, he simply waits. And by then the RB has a head of steam, is dictating the run and drives the tackler backwards.
Williams does it quite a bit as well. Nnadi is the best we have there and he's getting better. His only real issue is that sometimes he just gets beat by technique. That's happening less and less often.
The DL does the ILBs no favors quite often.
Ultimately this is 4-3 personnel based on both their talent and their tendencies. I just don't see a way to switch it up in-season.
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Once I heard jones say he wanted to lead the league in sacks, you kind of knew what was coming.
When I look at the players they've brought in the last year or so, I really think they're gonna transition away from the 34. I just can't imagine they've done this bad of a job at it.