OmerV
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Here's some cut-ups of Jaylon against the Bears and Bills last season. Couple of things:
- Jaylon doesn't play with any base; he is lifted and moved out of lanes at will because he doesn't sink his hips and hops into blocks;
- Jaylon does not stack and shed (look at the first gif below) at all; there is no resistance from him maintaining his gap which allows for open running lanes;
- His play balance is all out of whack; plays way too high and hops rather shift his weight fluidly.
Here (above), Jaylon gets moved 10-yards down the field backwards.
Jaylon here (above) just gets bowled over playing too upright.
Piling up those "tackle" totals.
Stack and shed is completely non-existent; guesses at which lane the RB will take and runs himself out the play.
This is 195 lbs Eric Weddle against 255 lbs Tyler Eifert showing how you stack and shed.
Some of these are pretty bad, and demonstrate why I don't think Jaylon is best suited to being an interior LB. He is not the tough, take on the block in traffic kind of guy. He needs to be on the outside where he has more room to run and maneuver.
But a few of these are decent plays. On the second one, for example, he saw the interior running lane was clogged up, and he jumped to the outside to prevent the RB from cutting around the edge. He didn't make the tackle, but the job isn't always to make the tackle. Sometimes it's to prevent running lanes so others can make the tackle. On another he shed a block and was in position for the tackle and got a little piece of it.