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Hope he transfers in as our starter next year when Mario or another bigtime HC takes over.

Not bad, though. Meanwhile, last year Jennings had 39, Brooks 37, McCloud 27, Steed and Flagg 15 (and Flagg had only 1 solo). No argument with you that scheme is unfriendly for LB (and not good against decent offenses in general). But I also think Manny's (and Baker's and Patke's) recruiting...

They were tweeners who had already shown they knew ow to play LB, and who could both rush and cover. Abdullah less so, but the kid had wheels. He was a no brainer. It was criminal passing on them given the guys we took

As far as those who like to point out D$ and some of the CIS gurus liked most of the LBs on our roster, I would say that's revisionist history. Guys like Steed or Joyner or Huff or Cave are absolutely Miami caliber athletes and takes. But most of us were higher on Bonito, Abdullah, Jones, ***ot...

Agree on your first point. He's bottom of the barrel in evals. Patrick Joyner was his #1 target at LB. Derrick Smith was his hidden gem at Safety. Guy is ******* clueless. On scheme, Shaq had over 100 tackles one year. I don't like the scheme either. But talented LBs would do just fine here.