Yep. Especially with the amount of subs that we do and the other cover/ballhawk safety we have on the field. Collins makes some mental mistakes from time to time (See Hester TD), but overall, he's a solid player and someone who can play cover one.
Like said before, you build your defense to your strengths, not the other way around. Bigby and Rouse both aren't great in coverage. They are pretty decent in run support, though. Asuming Rouse can actually tackle. You'll see that incorporated into the playbook some more.
Next to that, if he has to play deep zone, Collins will usually be there to back him up. And if he is alone out there, that usually means that we're blitzing and there shouldn't be any time to exploit one safety.
"Rockmolder" wrote:
I'll take the few mistakes Collins makes any day of the week for the big plays he makes. He was downright awesome last year. If he gave up 3 TDs, so what? He gave us 3 TDs. Plus 7 INTs, which means he ended 7 drives right then and there. So yeah, we both like Collins. :thumbright:
And completely agreed you build your D to your strengths. Actually in real life, you build pretty much everything to your strengths. You work in the career field you're good at. You walk into the bar and hit on the best of the girls who's interested in you. If you got long fingers, you play the guitar, short fingers, the violin.
Our strengths on D appear to be disruption and confusion. It wasn't bend, but don't break like the crap we were doing last year.
I'm severely looking forward to Sunday's trouncing of the Bengals. I think game 2, we see what this D can really do.
As for Rouse and Bigby, both are solid when it comes to run support. Their only weaknesses are coverage, but with the amount of disruptive blitzing Capers does, I'm not too worried about them getting exploited back there.
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