What I find interesting, how I'm reading it is there's a risk, this here...
“So to me, when you look at this defense, you’re going to lose a little bit of your multiplicity. It’s going to be a lot harder for you to play in that dime look that a lot of people want to do.”
When you talk about stopping the Rams you can include the 49ers. They both basically run the same offense. I take it he's saying the focus is on stopping the 12 personal stuff of the Rams at the risk of being less adaptable to the rest of the league. I just find this stuff interesting. How it's all about stopping the Rams. The rest of the league doesn't concern us lol.
https://www.fieldgulls.com/seahawks-pod ... 26-defense“I think it would be losing Riq Woolen, who I thought was kind of inevitable. He just didn’t fit in the fact that those corners need to be really physical. They want to play a lot of Cover 2. They need you to be around the ball when they run, especially against the—I mean, let’s be honest, it’s wide zone central in the in the [NFC] West at this point, right? I mean, everybody’s basically doing the same offense. So, you need those physical corners. That just wasn’t part of of what Woolen wanted to do, which I wasn’t shocked. He goes to the Eagles. They ran the most man last year, probably going to do the same this year.
“So to me, when you look at this defense, you’re going to lose a little bit of your multiplicity. It’s going to be a lot harder for you to play in that dime look that a lot of people want to do, especially—‘Hey, we get 11 personnel. Hey, let’s get into some dime now. We really kill your passing game. And if you want to run on us, do it. We’ve got Witherspoon and [Nick] Emmanwori right there. You’re not going to be running in into the box.’
And so to me, I think that is the biggest one right there is that losing Woolen doesn’t allow you to always kick in [Devon] Witherspoon. Now, if Julian Neal comes in and he’s great, maybe Nehemiah Pritchett in his third year, you feel really good about him and hey, ‘I think he can survive over by himself to the field,’ then that changes it a little bit. But that to me is the biggest one.
