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Tenacious
Footballguy
I believe Weatherspoon is a WLB, no?
He's definitely a 3/4 OLB, and I think he lines up on the weak, and plays nickel.
Having said that, I wouldn't drop Tulloch. I think Weatherspoon's stats will be hit or miss depending on the matchup. Tulloch is a LB1/2. Weatherspoon is like a LB2/3.
He's definitely a 3/4 OLB, and I think he lines up on the weak, and plays nickel.
Having said that, I wouldn't drop Tulloch. I think Weatherspoon's stats will be hit or miss depending on the matchup. Tulloch is a LB1/2. Weatherspoon is like a LB2/3.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Weatherspoon is playing on the weak side in the base packages. I'm not yet comfortable projecting him to 95+ solo/LB1 territory yet, but he's certainly in the conversation as one of the few 4-3 OLBs with that kind of upside.
Mr. Know-It-All
Footballguy
For what it is worth I think he is top 20 potential this year and potentail op 10 down the road. Disclaimer: huge Mizzou fan - but I think his talent speaks for itself.
I am considering dropping Morrison for him since Morrison has been a dud. I'll give it two more weeks and hope no one else snatches him up.
I am considering dropping Morrison for him since Morrison has been a dud. I'll give it two more weeks and hope no one else snatches him up.
I watched the entire ATL / ARI game.. and watched it on replay as well.. IMO Weatherspoon looked alot more aggressive and quicker than Lofton does.. I'm not sure of the nickel packages or base defense, but I DID see him lineup on BOTH the right and left side at various times. Seems like he switches back and forth alot during the game.
Mr. Know-It-All
Footballguy
Plus Weatherspoon is smarter...he went to Mizzou.Lofton went to that second rate academic slophouse known as Oklahoma.
I'm pretty sure he's been playing the WLB.
cr8f
Footballguy
Gamebook just has them listed as OLB so he could be right. He is good in coverage so that does make sense.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
John and I talked about this mid-week.The Falcons have been one of those teams that sometimes anchor their OLBs and sometimes play the under-over front game where the "WLB" plays over the TE, etc.
Weatherspoon has lined up over the TE at times. But he's been to the weak side the significant majority of his base defensive snaps and I think he's rightly called the WLB here. There may not be many base snaps against the Saints today, but we'll both have our eye on this again today.
The underlying point here is a good one, though. I made the argument in a Fifth Down post this summer that MLB > WLB > SLB should not be the first step in the IDP Value Default Algorithm. Instead, you should first determine every down or not every down. Almost every player that you put in the every-down category should go ahead of the rest before you consider the MLB > WLB > SLB default.
There will be a handful of Dan Connor, Andra Davis, etc that belong ahead of an every-down OLB now and then, but those are the exceptions to train yourself to find, not the every-down SLB.
Posts like this are going to cost me a great deal of time! This is my first year playing IDP, and I've been trying to read as much as I can. I read this thread because I draft Weatherspoon in a dynasty rookie draft. Wouldn't have read this post otherwise. Now that I know Jene posts tidbits like this in these threads, I'm going to have to read them all, or find a way to read all of Jene's posts on IDP on this forum. Thanks, man!
