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2008 Every Down Linebackers (2 Viewers)
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Jene Bramel
Footballguy
A number of minor injury changes over the past two weeks, but the major news is the Cardinals pulling Gerald Hayes from many of their 3-3-5 nickel looks over the past two weeks. Also close to adding Zach Thomas to this list again.
duece2626
Footballguy
He was already starting on the weakside. Bentley likely takes over at SLB.
Gators
Footballguy
Nickel is what I meant.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Possibly, but it's not a lock. I'd think Bentley could end up taking every down snaps. He was getting looks in training camp there. Greenwood got the snaps a few weeks back with Diles was dinged late in a game, so he's probably the favorite for now.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
I've seen Tyjuan Hagler in for part of a series now and then, presumably due to Keiaho's multiple dings, but I don't think it's seriously impacting his playing time.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Still some situations up in the air early in the week (GB, JAX, HOU), but bumping for the W10 update.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Oops. Corrected now. Thanks.
Jack Johnson
Footballguy
Maybe this was brought up earlier, but is Leroy Hill an every down player?
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
He was earlier in the season. I took him off this week (or last) after seeing the Seahawks begin running a lot of dime formations against spread sets. Hill had dropped down to playing just over 70% of the defensive snaps in Weeks 8 and 9 after playing 90%+ earlier in the season.Hard to know if that was Kerney related (Seahawks wanting more coverage with a weaker pass rush) or matchup related (both SF and PHI frequently use multiWR sets).
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
There was a note in one of the other threads that quoted Kubiak as strongly suggesting Adibi would be getting a lot of nickel snaps.
Biabreakable
Footballguy
Good info here. Thanks.
Jack Johnson
Footballguy
I noticed Hawk comes off the field when they go to the dime set. Brandon Chillar is the LB. Has this always been the case even when Hawk was at the WILL?
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Yes, although it was Barnett as the dime backer when healthy. The Packers only go to the dime against four WRs, however, so except against teams like Detroit or New Orleans, it's not a major issue as it's probably 1-2 snaps out of ten even then.
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Jack Johnson
Footballguy
Is Greenwood expected to see any action in nickel or dime this week, or is Adibi now an every down player? I am considering starting Adibi against Jacksonville this week, but want to confirm he will be on the field in all sets.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Adibi is an every-down player. Greenwood is a reserve right now.
Jack Johnson
Footballguy
Is Bowens or Barton considered the MIKE in the Jets 3-4?
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
The Jets call their SILB the Mike, though that's not consistent for all 3-4 teams. When Barton and Bowens are on the field together in the base 3-4, Bowens has taken the majority of snaps as the SILB. When Bowens leaves the field, I've seen Barton move over to the strong side, with Cody Spencer playing a WILB role.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
First post updated with expectations/speculations of what may happen after this week's LB shuffle around the league.
Expecting Winborn and Williams to be the every-down players (assuming Williams plays), likely Woodyard in Williams place if not. Keiaho may be the only every-down linebacker in Indy this week, with Hagler a possible nickel backer if he plays. If Hagler is out, lean to the more experienced Session. Boiman looks likely to stay on the field in the nickel with Johnson after the position swap. David Harris may not bump Eric Barton from snaps, yet, but it's worth watching. Pisa Tinoisamoa looks like the only every-down backer in St. Louis, but Witherspoon didn't play in every nickel package last week and Chris Draft may get more time than the usual base defensive only backer.
Expecting Winborn and Williams to be the every-down players (assuming Williams plays), likely Woodyard in Williams place if not. Keiaho may be the only every-down linebacker in Indy this week, with Hagler a possible nickel backer if he plays. If Hagler is out, lean to the more experienced Session. Boiman looks likely to stay on the field in the nickel with Johnson after the position swap. David Harris may not bump Eric Barton from snaps, yet, but it's worth watching. Pisa Tinoisamoa looks like the only every-down backer in St. Louis, but Witherspoon didn't play in every nickel package last week and Chris Draft may get more time than the usual base defensive only backer.
Jack Johnson
Footballguy
-Bruschi possibly to IR
Was Bruschi taking any snaps away from Mayo? Sometimes I would see him in on goalline in the middle and Mayo on the sidelines.
Also, I did not want to waste starting a new thread for this but wanted to know about the decline in the production of Stephen Cooper in recent weeks. His solo tackle numbers the last 3 weeks are 2, 4, & 4 and the 2 picks he had against the Raiders really made up for his low tackle output. What I have noticed, is ever since I have seen him wearing some type of sleeve on I think his left arm, his production tackle wise is down. With that said, I am considering starting him against the Chiefs, who in my league are 21st in points allowed to the LB position, so the matchup is not favorable from that angle. So any thoughts?
Was Bruschi taking any snaps away from Mayo? Sometimes I would see him in on goalline in the middle and Mayo on the sidelines.
Also, I did not want to waste starting a new thread for this but wanted to know about the decline in the production of Stephen Cooper in recent weeks. His solo tackle numbers the last 3 weeks are 2, 4, & 4 and the 2 picks he had against the Raiders really made up for his low tackle output. What I have noticed, is ever since I have seen him wearing some type of sleeve on I think his left arm, his production tackle wise is down. With that said, I am considering starting him against the Chiefs, who in my league are 21st in points allowed to the LB position, so the matchup is not favorable from that angle. So any thoughts?
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Jene Bramel
Footballguy
I've seen Mayo playing in short yardage in prior weeks and those situations are usually a smaller percentage than nickel snaps, thus I usually don't consider them for the purposes of this thread. Guyton (in the dime) was a bigger threat to Mayo's playing time than Bruschi. Guyton is a favorite to become an every-down backer this week.Cooper's elbow injury hasn't kept him out of games but has definitely affected his tackling. He looked better last week, but had relatively limited opportunity against Oakland. The same should be the case against KC, though the ten day break should benefit him overall. He's still a LB2 tier starter to me.I've yet to finish my research this week, but I'll probably be adding Session and Bishop to the initial post by midweek.Jack Johnson said:
Jack Johnson
Footballguy
So the only set Mayo will still come out on is the dime?
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Didn't see the game, but Mike Reiss has Mayo on the field for 47 of 57 snaps against Seattle. Sounds like some of those may have been short yardage, but I'd be willing to be the rest came in the dime packages against spread offensive sets.Still a work in progress here, but Junior Seau may have something to say about Bruschi's base defensive snaps as well.I'll try to get a full update together by tomorrow morning.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
I have not kept the communicator information current since the season started. The teams probably have to declare who wears the communicator to the league before each game, but I'm not aware of any outlet that reports that information regularly.The first post has a date/time stamp of the most recent edit. I usually try to edit the post midweek after fallout from the previous week's games.
