Chavis Gets It

I'm liking DC Chavis already. He says he's bringing his SAM strongside LB position to our defense, where he uses safety-sized LB's, including ex-safeties, at the strongside LB position.

This to me is the first step in improving our defense against the spread offenses. The spread has turned ordinary LBs into dinosaurs. Look at the LSU-Florida game. Our LBs were too slow to fill the gaps that Raines was hitting, too slow to cover RBs out of the backfield and slot receivers and TE's dragging across the middle, too slow on blitzes and no where to be found on the option.

Against spread teams I'd like to see The Chief go one step further and replace all the LBs with hybrid safety types. You don't need 240 lb LB to stop a power running game, that's not what the spread does.