Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Stephen Tulloch replaced David Thornton in the Titan nickel packages late in the first half last night and continued to play in the nickel throughout the second half. I saw David Thornton on the field on the rare second half base defensive snaps, so I'm not aware of an injury.
Still trying to find the transcript of Jeff Fisher's press conference last night and I'll follow up on the day after pressers today, but barring some sort of Thornton injury, this is big news for Tulloch. Get him rostered if you can.
Still trying to find the transcript of Jeff Fisher's press conference last night and I'll follow up on the day after pressers today, but barring some sort of Thornton injury, this is big news for Tulloch. Get him rostered if you can.
Not trying to be a hater because there is tons of valuable information here and the commentary on Tulloch is valuabel, but picking up on the guy after he gets 12 tackles is not a marvelous find.
I think the note would've been valuable regardless of the stat line. It's not the 8-4 line score that's important here. It's the mid-game, unexpected change in his responsibility from his prior base defensive only role to every-down player. It's certainly easy to start the thread after the eight solo night, but I may have started the thread (it would've been noted in the W2 RTD regardless) if he had finished with only three solos.Curtis Lofton had five games with six or more solos last year. Those five games projected over a full season would've projected to over 95 solos. Had one decided to reach for him on waivers and started him looking for those numbers in a redraft league, they would have been disappointed with his four or fewer solos on ten other occasions last year (when he played less than 50% of the snaps as a base defensive player only).Tulloch himself has had six games with more than seven solos in his last two seasons (not including last night's effort). My argument here is that, if the role he played last night holds, he's much more likely to produce the stats he did last night than his inconsistent game-by-game effort over the past two seasons.Finally, I would be shocked if there's not another linebacker this week with a 8-12 total tackle line whose outlook will be the polar opposite of Tulloch's.
Not trying to be a hater because there is tons of valuable information here and the commentary on Tulloch is valuabel, but picking up on the guy after he gets 12 tackles is not a marvelous find.
I think the note would've been valuable regardless of the stat line. It's not the 8-4 line score that's important here. It's the mid-game, unexpected change in his responsibility from his prior base defensive only role to every-down player. It's certainly easy to start the thread after the eight solo night, but I may have started the thread (it would've been noted in the W2 RTD regardless) if he had finished with only three solos.Curtis Lofton had five games with six or more solos last year. Those five games projected over a full season would've projected to over 95 solos. Had one decided to reach for him on waivers and started him looking for those numbers in a redraft league, they would have been disappointed with his four or fewer solos on ten other occasions last year (when he played less than 50% of the snaps as a base defensive player only).Tulloch himself has had six games with more than seven solos in his last two seasons (not including last night's effort). My argument here is that, if the role he played last night holds, he's much more likely to produce the stats he did last night than his inconsistent game-by-game effort over the past two seasons.Finally, I would be shocked if there's not another linebacker this week with a 8-12 total tackle line whose outlook will be the polar opposite of Tulloch's.
