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Originally Posted by JPH83
I'm kinda 50-50 on this. It does feel like Reid and to some extent Thornhll have improved significantly at the same time, I just can't tell if it's connected. If I'm honest I don't know about sitting Sneed on someone like Chase. In principle I like the idea of bracketing him and leaving a guy on Higgins but I think Sneed's strengths are in his versatility rather than being a true lockdown CB. He can tackle, blitz, has amazing closing speed, reads the game pretty well. He's decent in coverage but I don't know if he's "stay with Chase good" - maybe no-one is. If we tried it and he got torched for a quarter you'd hope there's a Plan B. either way we need something new against the Bengals
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It's all connected. All of it.
Spags doesn't really have a 'scheme' in the way a Fangio has a 'scheme'. Other than generally showing one thing pre-snap and doing something else post-snap and creative blitzes. One of the reasons he doesn't just lock a specific corner up on a specific receiver all that much is because that's one easy read for the QB.
I think the idea is that the QB theoretically should have to instantly read the defense post snap as we don't show them any truth beforehand.
We can debate the merits of that, but I find the concept solid.