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By D'Marco Farr
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I love Chance Warmack. I love the belly, I love the way he plays. He is a smart guy, he plays with attitude. People don’t like to spend premium picks on guards, but in my experience, lining up against a first round guard hurts. Those guys can play and they change your offense. The downside is guards come in all forms and shapes. You can get an elite one at any time in the draft.
If I were the Rams, I would go with a safety with one of the first round picks. I would go with a guy that would shake up that room quite a bit. If I am a defensive backs coach or Jeff Fisher, I am proud of the work that my safeties did this past year. Playing safety in this defense is fun. You have a chance to make a lot of plays, you are going to be going towards the quarterback, they are going to put you in a position to make some big hits. It is a good time if you can do it.
But what I mean by change the room is throw a couple of world class athletes in that group of safeties. Then see what this defense can do with those guys in it. Make people go “WOW!’ Nothing against Quintin Mikell, nothing against Craig Dahl, those guys did work last year. Dahl hit people in the tackle box as hard as anyone in the league. Mikell made as many plays as any safety in the league. If you add a more athletic and bigger specimen of an athlete to that position, who knows what the defense can look like with that in the backfield. I would add some spice to that position.
When you are playing or coaching you are getting the most out of your talent but you don’t know how far that position can go unless you add talent to it. I think with the safety position can make the defense go from top 15 to top 10 if you can add another athlete at that position. If you have Finnegan, Trumaine Johnson, Janoris Jenkins and another athletic safety for the offense to think about, that is another half second for your defensive end to get to the quarterback.
Let me put you in the shoes of Aaron Rodgers. You are playing against the Rams and it is a third and long situation. You spread the field with four receivers. You look to the left and there is Jenkins. You look to the right and there is Finnegan on your best receiver. On the inside you have Mikell on a slot guy and Dahl on the other slot. What is your decision? How fast is that decision coming? Add an athlete to that mix and the answer to that question gets a lot tougher.
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I love Chance Warmack. I love the belly, I love the way he plays. He is a smart guy, he plays with attitude. People don’t like to spend premium picks on guards, but in my experience, lining up against a first round guard hurts. Those guys can play and they change your offense. The downside is guards come in all forms and shapes. You can get an elite one at any time in the draft.
If I were the Rams, I would go with a safety with one of the first round picks. I would go with a guy that would shake up that room quite a bit. If I am a defensive backs coach or Jeff Fisher, I am proud of the work that my safeties did this past year. Playing safety in this defense is fun. You have a chance to make a lot of plays, you are going to be going towards the quarterback, they are going to put you in a position to make some big hits. It is a good time if you can do it.
But what I mean by change the room is throw a couple of world class athletes in that group of safeties. Then see what this defense can do with those guys in it. Make people go “WOW!’ Nothing against Quintin Mikell, nothing against Craig Dahl, those guys did work last year. Dahl hit people in the tackle box as hard as anyone in the league. Mikell made as many plays as any safety in the league. If you add a more athletic and bigger specimen of an athlete to that position, who knows what the defense can look like with that in the backfield. I would add some spice to that position.
When you are playing or coaching you are getting the most out of your talent but you don’t know how far that position can go unless you add talent to it. I think with the safety position can make the defense go from top 15 to top 10 if you can add another athlete at that position. If you have Finnegan, Trumaine Johnson, Janoris Jenkins and another athletic safety for the offense to think about, that is another half second for your defensive end to get to the quarterback.
Let me put you in the shoes of Aaron Rodgers. You are playing against the Rams and it is a third and long situation. You spread the field with four receivers. You look to the left and there is Jenkins. You look to the right and there is Finnegan on your best receiver. On the inside you have Mikell on a slot guy and Dahl on the other slot. What is your decision? How fast is that decision coming? Add an athlete to that mix and the answer to that question gets a lot tougher.
