DMoney27
Rookie
I noticed on many occasions that we only have two cornerbacks in even during nickle and dime packages. Filling in to cover the other receivers are safeties and line backers. After disecting the first Boldin touchdown, you will see Bolding lined up in the slot being covered by Crowder. Crowder blitzes on the play and then Ayodele is left to try and cover Boldin from his middle line backer position. A quote from Crocker about this play was that half the defense was lined up in one defense and the other half in another. The missed assignment does not bother me as much as the personnel used at that time. Either way a linebacker was covering Boldin whether it was Crowder or Ayodele, while on the same side Crocker is covering Steve Breaston and Goodman was covering the TE Pope. First of all Crocker should not be on a receiver at the line trying to cover on the play, he is a safety not a corner. A line backer should never be covering Boldin at the line period. I believe Crowder missed something here and should of audibled. This was a nickle situation and where was Lehan. I know he has been hurt but we need to stop putting safties on receivers at the line of scrimmage. There were times that Bell, our best playmaking saftey was lined up on a wide receiver at the line of scrimmage. I don't remember seeing Lehan till the second half. So are nickle and dime packages consist of W. Allen and Goodman as our corners and the rest of the secondary consists of safeties.
This topic has been brought up multiple times but it was embarrasing watching this group yesterday. I know secondary was not the main focus this off season, but it has been said time after time that the bottom of this roster will be turned over by people who can play. Well we have a problem in the secondary if we can only field two corners with safeties filling in on multiple receiver sets. There were players out there that we could have got like Deltha O'neil to atleast give us some help in a shortened position. Lehan needs to be out there, if he is healthy enough to be activated for the game he needs to be in on nickle and dime packages covering a receiver from the line of scrimmage. Nate Jones is special teams only and we sign a guy like Culver who will not see any action but STs. I think it is important to find a corner, not to be our savior but someone who can come in and help us at that position.
This topic has been brought up multiple times but it was embarrasing watching this group yesterday. I know secondary was not the main focus this off season, but it has been said time after time that the bottom of this roster will be turned over by people who can play. Well we have a problem in the secondary if we can only field two corners with safeties filling in on multiple receiver sets. There were players out there that we could have got like Deltha O'neil to atleast give us some help in a shortened position. Lehan needs to be out there, if he is healthy enough to be activated for the game he needs to be in on nickle and dime packages covering a receiver from the line of scrimmage. Nate Jones is special teams only and we sign a guy like Culver who will not see any action but STs. I think it is important to find a corner, not to be our savior but someone who can come in and help us at that position.
