re: = #1 Defense

Yeah, maybe so. The bottom line is this: You can't have a unit playing its best fundamental ball until you can convince each player to buy into the concept of trusting his teammates to do handle their own business. Hopefully the other DBs can hold their own in their 2nd year under Chavis, so that everybody trusts everyone else enough to just stay within their own responsibilities.

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see julio jones

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I think that was an isolated incident where you had a safety playing up on the line of scrimmage against a great athlete who got a quick screen pass. It's not the typical thing you need a safety for.

As for Hatcher, I don't think he's better than Taylor. I thought it was kind of strange that McCray was still getting starts at safety as late as November, but I guess it just goes to show how much both Hatcher and Taylor still had to learn.

Yea something like that. I mean I would rather have a guy who has experience on the field and practically plays like a LB anyway. Basically a 4-2-5 is what suits our personnel best. You can say you move a safety to LB and call it a 4-3 i dont care. Just put the best players on the field

I could see Hatcher being Chavis' hybrid LB this year... he lays the freaking wood, and he is more than qualified to cover running backs out of the backfield. Francois is just too unproven for me to fully buy into