re: Taylor Hamm & Billy Liucci make SWEET LOVE in 2019 + Football Recruiting Thread

One Linebacker commit / signing will address depth chart issues?

Otaro Alaka - Senior, Tyrel Dodson - Jr, Anthony Hines - Soph, Buddy Johnson - Soph. Everyone else is a walkon and Johnson is more of a hybrid / transition to LB'er.

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it's been a good while since I can remember the Ags signing as natural a cover man, maybe dating back to Sammy Davis coming out of Humble nearly 20 years ago.

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he was saying this about devante harris too

Can we take all of these...or what about any other potential prospects:

Wydermyer, Harris, Stripling, Ugwoegbu, Wright? That makes 28 plus there seems to be another dark horse up Fisher's sleeve.

Jimbo had to really scramble to try to put together last year's class due to the early signing date. I wonder if he came away from that experience with a resolve to lock up as much of his next class as the earliest date possible.

I suppose if the players are gonna sign early, then the coach has to adjust and assemble his class early.

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Because he doesn't play linebacker

Go watch Elko's ND defense last year, the rover is essentially a box safety who blitzes more often.

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I’ve coached the 4-2-5. Calling Buddy Johnson a safety is misleading. That position plays much more like a traditional OLB than a traditional safety.

Again, if you refuse to a knowledge that Buddy Johnson is a LBer, then you’re essentially saying that only Inside LBers are “true LBers,” and I think that’s silly.

Elko doesn't run a traditional 4-2-5. A good example of that is Patterson's defense at TCU which utilizes a base formation with 4 down-linemen the majority of the time.

What Elko runs is more similar to the 3-3-5 that WVU ran in the mid-2000s, with one of the three "LBs" being a standup DE and one of the 5 "DBs" being a hybrid player. He'll only have three down lineman in a traditional stance >50% of the time and almost always on passing downs.

Johnson won't be filling gaps most of the time, he'll be responsible for edge contain and be brought on edge blitzes. He'll be in coverage A LOT more than a traditional OLB and slightly more than his equivalent player in a traditional 4-2-5. He'll also be moving around the formation far kore than any OLD would ever be asked to do.

My point is that if any of our actual linebackers gets hurt, we won't be able to rely on Buddy Johnson to fill that void. Thus talking about him in the context of LB depth is, IMO, not appropriate.

trill

That’s out of nowhere

could see it being stripling even though he everyone is saying he wants to take visits

perroni is inferring harris or stripling