I know we’ve experimented with a 3-3-5 plenty in the past. I’m wondering if that would be our best alignment this year. DE is not strong this year and Woods is probably more suited to play on the edge with three down linemen rather than four.
With our personnel it would look something like:
Woods-Cape-Parker with frequent subbing in of Page, Tre, Green, etc.
Woodaz-Brown-Carter. You could probably line Brown up on the edge and have him playing more as a blitzing, downhill ‘backer to minimize his lack of knowledge and experience still.
Terrell-Barnes-Mickens-Hampton-Lewis.
This is where it gets dicey as I’m not sure we have the DB depth to consistently play this way as I only really trust Lukus off the bench. Venables is too slow, Covil and Griffin often seem out of position and haven’t seen much from Strozier, Feagin or Gipson to believe they’re ready for tons of snaps.
So maybe it wouldn’t be a long-term solution but at least an alignment we should consider employing with more frequency as Sammy Brown continues to emerge?
With our personnel it would look something like:
Woods-Cape-Parker with frequent subbing in of Page, Tre, Green, etc.
Woodaz-Brown-Carter. You could probably line Brown up on the edge and have him playing more as a blitzing, downhill ‘backer to minimize his lack of knowledge and experience still.
Terrell-Barnes-Mickens-Hampton-Lewis.
This is where it gets dicey as I’m not sure we have the DB depth to consistently play this way as I only really trust Lukus off the bench. Venables is too slow, Covil and Griffin often seem out of position and haven’t seen much from Strozier, Feagin or Gipson to believe they’re ready for tons of snaps.
So maybe it wouldn’t be a long-term solution but at least an alignment we should consider employing with more frequency as Sammy Brown continues to emerge?
