I was/am still hesitate about heaping tons of praise towards Kris Richard, since I don't see much improvement in our safeties (I mean, yeah...not much to work with but they aren't one bit better than last year with whatever scrub safety coach we had..even with Xavier having more experience), but he got it right by immediately recognizing that Bryon is a corner. We all kind of figured out after the 2017 season that safety wasn't his thing and that we wasted a 1st rd. pick on an apparent "work-out warrior" (at least, I will admit to thinking that). At corner, with a simplified role, his athleticism is now on display and he has the size/wingspan to make smart OC's to attack the opposite side (path of least resistence). Now, if Chido can just get a little less "unlucky" on his targets, we'd really have both sides of the field equally level. As it is, I think Chido's side is going to get attack more and more until he's able to put up a better resume to counter that. He's good...it'll come.
Now, as far as playing Anthony Brown more than Jourdan, I got a problem with that. Lewis is a gamer. Sure, he uncharacteristically whiffed on a tackle in his one snap of the game on Sunday, but by and large, he's a more talent DB/surer tackler than Anthony Brown. Brown is no scrub and it's a luxury to have a log jam at two DB's that can play outside/slot, but Lewis is greener than Brown and needs some snaps to show us what we've got. We know for the most part what Brown is now: A more than decent, versatile CB that can get handsy at the wrong times, good tackler. Teams would kill for that in a 5th rd. draft pick. Jourdan, IMO, is that and more. /rant
