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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 662240"><p>Highlight tapes do provide one benefit with respect to all of these ILB candidates. Presumably at their best in those tapes you don't even see the smaller ones with better 40 times making plays on the ball in the passing game. I've watched ILB tape on the guys with range at #27 until I'm blue in the face and all you see from these guys is zone drops. The occasional INT comes on underthrown balls. The only one of these guys who showed a pass defense that made me sit up was Jaylon Smith, and we know what happened to him.</p><p></p><p>Can these smaller, speedier college ILBs fill role at the NFL level? It's a crap shoot. Maybe one or the other can or can't, but nobody knows because nobody has seen them try it.</p><p></p><p>Now look at the NFL. Who are the notable safety/ILB tweeners? They're ex-safeties. In fact, this new age ILB stuff is just another take on the box safety...the only difference is the frequency, or some cases regularity, with which they are positioned in that way. And you'd want to couple that guy with a stout run stuffer.</p><p></p><p>The general answer to the coverage ILB issue appears to lie with the ex-safeties. The Packers already have the answer on the roster if Capers were inclined to go this route in the form of Burnett, with Dix moved to SS coupled with a true coverage safety, which I do not find Dix to be. This will not happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 662240"] Highlight tapes do provide one benefit with respect to all of these ILB candidates. Presumably at their best in those tapes you don't even see the smaller ones with better 40 times making plays on the ball in the passing game. I've watched ILB tape on the guys with range at #27 until I'm blue in the face and all you see from these guys is zone drops. The occasional INT comes on underthrown balls. The only one of these guys who showed a pass defense that made me sit up was Jaylon Smith, and we know what happened to him. Can these smaller, speedier college ILBs fill role at the NFL level? It's a crap shoot. Maybe one or the other can or can't, but nobody knows because nobody has seen them try it. Now look at the NFL. Who are the notable safety/ILB tweeners? They're ex-safeties. In fact, this new age ILB stuff is just another take on the box safety...the only difference is the frequency, or some cases regularity, with which they are positioned in that way. And you'd want to couple that guy with a stout run stuffer. The general answer to the coverage ILB issue appears to lie with the ex-safeties. The Packers already have the answer on the roster if Capers were inclined to go this route in the form of Burnett, with Dix moved to SS coupled with a true coverage safety, which I do not find Dix to be. This will not happen. [/QUOTE]
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