The writing is on the wall. Tyrique Stevenson is a big corner with solid movement skills who wins at the line of scrimmage but struggles with ball awareness and breaking on throws. You don't bring him in with Blades and Couch and run a bunch of spot drop zone. I think Manny is positioning the defense - with TRob and taking back the playcalling - to return to a lot of man and man pressure. Baker and Ivey are the losers in this scenario.
All of this would seem very positive, correct? I don't remember if it was you who said it, but Jess teaching gap integrity helps the LB play as well?
He was quoted at USCe saying we run bump and run man coverage X% of the time. I compared it to an article I saw on us recently and that number was higher than Manny’s highest in his 3 years here as DC (which was significantly higher than it has been since Baker got here)
I'm a big fan of Simpson and was one of, if not the first to proclaim him an upgrade over Kuligowski. I think it's a reach to expect him to fix the LBs though. Miami needs to play the right guys and if the right guys aren't prepared then that falls on the LB coach (who just happens to be the target of this thread's complaint).
