+10000 Size is overrated at LB, just like "homerun speed" is overrated at RB. If you had 3 "undersized" Spences running your LB unit, you'd have the best LB unit in the country.
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lol. Yes.
Linebackers need to be able to get off blocks. I don't care how speedy your linebackers are, if I can get a body on them at the second level and they are too weak to shed the block or are forced to run around the block due to smallness, I can kill you with inside runs and little screen passes all day long.
The only reason it worked in the past is we had Jerome brown, Cortez Kennedy, russel Maryland, Vince wilfork, etc demanding double teams and holing blockers at that first level, allowing our linebackers to roam free w all that speed.
Well, south Florida doesn't produce tackles like that. That's why golden and co are going to bigger linebackers that fit the kinds of kids we can recruit in south Florida.
lol no. Your DT argument makes no sense. No matter how big your LBs are, if your DTs stink so much that OL are constantly getting to your LBs, your LBs are going to get steamrolled by the 300lb OL on inside runs. It dont matter if your LB is 240lb Leon Williams or 210lb Perryman. They're both gonna suffer the same fate.
LB is all about diagnosing plays in an instant, taking proper pursuit angles to the ball carrier, and great tackling technique and ability. Sure, you need a certain minimum threshold size to take the punishment of tackles and collisions. But after that, its all about other characteristics. If Golden thinks Grace is going to remain at 196lb and wont develop physically, that is the ONLY reason not to take him. Otherwise, he'd be a mindboggling ****** to think a "light" 6'1 220-225lbish Grace wouldnt have outstanding potential to be yet another shutdown LB in Miami's proud lineage. lol. Just like the myth about "homerun speed" being some kind of critical standard for RBs, "size" is also overrated. A LB corps of 3 Spences would beat the shi* out of every other LB corps in the country.
