FuzzyLumpkins
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TEK2000;1426949 said:Personally, I felt like the opposing offenses found a flaw in the way Bradie plays zone coverage. The problem I noticed is that he runs down the field for a while and once the TE gets passed him... he loses track of him completely. Well, then the TE would slip into a hole between Bradie James and Roy Williams. Roy is deep playing the cover 2 and Bradie loses track of the TE that's behind him and it winds up leaving the TE open in deep middle of the field. This started with the Saints and was still apparent against the Seahawks.
The other thing was that opposing offenses used Bradie's "bailing out" coverage against us.... meaning that they'd run TE/Reciever routes to get Bradie going deep into zone coverage and then throw a short screen to the RB outta the backfield that wound up going for longer gains than they should.
Bradie is good against the run... but needs work in coverage. I also think we were UNABLE to use him the way he needs to be used because we ran a Tampa 2 style coverage scheme. Imagine a larger, run stopping LBer like Bradie James trying to play deep coverage zones and you get the exact results we saw... James having trouble in coverage. If we could have given him shorter, smaller zones to cover I think he would have done just fine.
It might be best to have Carp and Burnett as our Nickel LBers because both of them have shown good skills in coverage... Ayodele is not too bad either.
Good stuff. That was what so frustrating last year. Bradie's limitations were exposed and the coaching staff did nothing to adjust for it. Burnett played OLB in the Tampa 2 and both Carp and Ayodele have experience covering backs and TEs in the 4-3. They could do no worse than James did.