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I would be shocked if anyone who’s ever played Safety at any level where skill position players run under a 5.0 40 says they prefer being rotated out.
You straight up see the game totally differently from the sideline. A lot of your keys show tendencies over the course of the game. That lazy, oversized TE starts setting up his stance differently from Q1 to Q3 and you’re able to notice when he’s going to block down or go vert even before the ball is snapped. That overanxious slot tells you when it’s a running play and when he’s more likely to run a pattern. RBs give away a ton just from their stance or depth.
And, sure, some of that can be picked up when you’re on the sideline, but a lot of it happens from a combination of film and flow of the game.
I understand their logic in ‘building depth’ via guys getting live snaps. Yet, I find it freakin’ weird we use this rationale for Safeties, but when we were paper thin at LB last year, it was immediately apparent our LBs - even a guy like Shaq who’d been here for 53 years - weren’t cross-trained enough that we had to play a walk-on (last year, anyway) in critical times. Does each position group just decide on its own ‘yeah, we’re gonna roll out whoever the f, whenever the f, Bc depth.’
Let the primary Safeties get the overwhelming # of defensive snaps, please. You want to roll some other guys out there? Create sub-packages or wait till we’re up by 35, if that happens. You want to rotate DEs? I’m in. For analytical positions, let the players feel out the game. Maybe if we did Amari would have lined up on the correct hash when UF went bombs away to the field side last season. Maybe not, who knows.
You straight up see the game totally differently from the sideline. A lot of your keys show tendencies over the course of the game. That lazy, oversized TE starts setting up his stance differently from Q1 to Q3 and you’re able to notice when he’s going to block down or go vert even before the ball is snapped. That overanxious slot tells you when it’s a running play and when he’s more likely to run a pattern. RBs give away a ton just from their stance or depth.
And, sure, some of that can be picked up when you’re on the sideline, but a lot of it happens from a combination of film and flow of the game.
I understand their logic in ‘building depth’ via guys getting live snaps. Yet, I find it freakin’ weird we use this rationale for Safeties, but when we were paper thin at LB last year, it was immediately apparent our LBs - even a guy like Shaq who’d been here for 53 years - weren’t cross-trained enough that we had to play a walk-on (last year, anyway) in critical times. Does each position group just decide on its own ‘yeah, we’re gonna roll out whoever the f, whenever the f, Bc depth.’
Let the primary Safeties get the overwhelming # of defensive snaps, please. You want to roll some other guys out there? Create sub-packages or wait till we’re up by 35, if that happens. You want to rotate DEs? I’m in. For analytical positions, let the players feel out the game. Maybe if we did Amari would have lined up on the correct hash when UF went bombs away to the field side last season. Maybe not, who knows.
