Linebackers

[OceanPanther]

Does anyone else have concerns with the talent level at starting linebackers.  ??  

S Thompson has never been as advertised for a first round draft pick

D Perryman,  I just think he's average at best.  Not very big and gets lost in the scrums

H Reddick ,  had 12 sacks last season. 

 Seems like our weakest corp   

[Moo Daeng]

8 minutes ago, OceanPanther said:

Does anyone else have concerns with the talent level at starting linebackers.  ??  

S Thompson has never been as advertised for a first round draft pick

D Perryman,  I just think he's average at best.  Not very big and gets lost in the scrums

H Reddick ,  had 12 sacks last season. 

 Seems like our weakest corp   

Not at all. I was just thinking last night about how it's a pretty nice unit.

Perryman if healthy is rather stout and physical. I'm quite optimistic about the group. 

Edited June 11, 2021 by Moo Daeng

[pantherclaw]

20 minutes ago, OceanPanther said:

Does anyone else have concerns with the talent level at starting linebackers.  ??  

S Thompson has never been as advertised for a first round draft pick

D Perryman,  I just think he's average at best.  Not very big and gets lost in the scrums

H Reddick ,  had 12 sacks last season. 

 Seems like our weakest corp   

I can't wrap my mind around these untruths. 

So sorry that Shaq wasn't another Davis.  VERY FEW men can say they are. 

Perryman is a very good, smart MLB.  A significant upgrade over last year. 

Reddick is a pass rush specialist.  

Not sure whom is going to round out the 3rd LB spot.  Considering that we don't keep 3 on the field every snap, it's not as important as it use to be. 

Either way we are much improved over last year just with having Perryman.  I pray he remains healthy this year. 

Difficult to stay healthy as a good Linebacker.  

[Moo Daeng]

Carter is no slouch

[SBBlue]

20 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

Not at all. I was just thinking last night about how it's a pretty nice unit.

Perryman if healthy is rather stout and physical. I'm quite optimistic about the group. 

We were spoiled by Luke and Davis. 

On paper, what we have now is a huge improvement over last year.  Even Luvu has double the pff of Whitehead, for what its worth.

[CanadianCat]

I actually had the opposite thought. I mean this unit is not Luke and TD, but Shaq is a high level LB and Im actually really excited about Perryman in the middle.

 

This is a big improvement from last season. 

[SBBlue]

Just now, CanadianCat said:

I actually had the opposite thought. I mean this unit is not Luke and TD, but Shaq is a high level LB and Im actually really excited about Perryman in the middle.

 

This is a big improvement from last season. 

Yes, even our depth looks better, on paper.  We don't have the stars but we've focused on adding quality with depth.

[CanadianCat]

Exactly. Perryman can never replace Luke, and I doubt anyone ever will, but he is a solid MLB in this league. 

 

Is Reddick expected to line up as a LB or is he on the line?

[iamhubby1]

I'm sorry but...IMO the Safety position is in worse shape at this point in time.

 

At Safety, we have Chinn, and ...???

 

At least at LB we have Shaq, above average. Perryman, above avg.. And Riddick, a way above avg. rusher. And we have depth.

 

So no, LB is not our worse position.

[Madwolf]

Not thrilled with the LBer corp, and that's mostly because we've always had an amazing MLB, and a Pro Bowl guy next to him.

I think they're serviceable, but if the injury bug bites we're in big trouble. I think fixing the defensive line will help out a lot here though.

[Captain Morgan]

honestly, between the DL, the LBs and Secondary....if the LBs are our weakest unit, I'm ok with that.  

We do need to draft some young talent next year, but I love what we have this year.  Everything is set up for Reddick and Burns to eat well.

[Michael G]

I know we have Perryman slated to start at the MIKE most likely, but does anyone think Shaq adding weight means more reps inside? I guess added weight is a plus either way if your speed and conditioning aren't negatively affected though.

Also Christian Miller is be projected as a LB- he was taking snaps as a SAM (at least I think I heard that in an interview).

[Moo Daeng]

I think we are going to see multiple alignments and groups. Possibly with Perryman and Thompson being kind of like the core traditional linebackers with lots of things pivoting around that.

[LinvilleGorge]

We'll see. I was surprised we didn't draft a LB at some point. But without going back and looking at the complete draft order I can't say where or of I would've taken a LB over the pick that we actually made. If we're somewhat deemphasizing the position I'm definitely okay with that. We've historically way over-prioritized IMO. I would've just preferred to see some effort made to potentially backfill Shaq's spot to set ourselves up to part with that contract.