LVE and JS will play all 3 spots ... is that miss developmental? or position flex? ... depends on if it works
about 75% of 2019 culd be in their base 4-2, so on 2nd or 3rd and 6 your taking 5y away from the WLB
I'd also note the job f these LB at any spot is not to wrestle with OL but read and run ... we have decent DTs now
and how good a play caller is LVE?
it's not that Lee can't cover, he just can't cover deep w/o pulling up, under 15ys he's rather good, he still has real burst to the ball
he also gets targeted as the slowest LB on the field, welcome to the NFL
the Boys are well aware of this
think of this as JS and LVE, backed up by Lee, and a big "?"
that 4th LB will matter big time and right now I don't know who that is[/QUOTE]
I think that's it's Joe Thomas....and I'm ok w/ that. I guess the biggest beef I have moving J. Smith out of the Sam...is he probably is your best rusher of all the LBers. Your really taking away something he's really good @ if you move him.
If you go back to 2018...when LVE was playing his best ball...he was in the middle...just destroying teams RBs. Then we got cute....and started to move him around....and he just wasn't having the same impact.
Time will tell how this works out...I just don't have much confidence in this defensive staff after the playoff debacle. That should have been the writting on the wall.