Finnegan Playing Nickle?

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I noticed yesterday that it was mostly (From when i was paying attention to it) Tru was on White, Jenkins was on Jones and Finnegan was taking the slot man. And got burned a couple times. I don't know if it was because that day we felt that White was still slowed enough to be handled by Tru (Who i think could and will be a starter for us soon) and they wanted the experience on Douglas....Just wondered if anyone else noticed it. Like i said it was just spots that i was paying attention, this was the case.
 
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I think we are gonna see a lot of Finnegan play a lot more nickel didn't he play that more in Tennessee?
 
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IDK, i didnt watch many games, but i do know he shadowed Andre Johnson...and paid for it with an ass whoopin lol
 
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what the hell is up with finnegan...

he hasn't played well since his thigh injury last season...
 
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I think he played a lot of nickel in Tennessee... he was comfortable with it and it allowed him also the option to blitz
 

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He hasn't been effective in a minute. His role in this defense is that of a JOKER, But he isn't being used to roam around free or Blitz.
He's being asked to stuff that leaves him out of place.
 
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In my experience, playing nickle corner is harder than playing outside when you have a good slot receiver (which Douglas is.)

Think about it. An outside coner takes away the inside routes and you basically have to make your catches against the sideline. If a nickle corner is taking away the routes over the middle all game they call an out route and now the receiver has two yards on the corner.

I think this Finny was the perfect person to match up with Douglas; however, him playing 5 yards deep allowed Douglas to basically have his way with him.
 
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Finnegan has been moving to the inside on 3 WR sets since last season...and probably did before in Tennessee...nothing new there.

But I think his play has been pretty awful this year. Might be time to start taking snaps away from him.
 
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