Sentences with phrase «good middle linebacker»

He is a good middle linebacker, and he makes those plays as a matter of course.

Now, at 220 pounds, he is one of the AFL's better middle linebackers and calls defensive signals for a unit that on occasion is the strongest in the league.

Not exact matches

One of the best 3 - 4 outside pass rushers of our time reduced to being a boring backup middle linebacker for a hated division rival, yuck!

The Buckeyes disguised it well, but it was also a bad read by Darnold, who didn't seem to recognize that the blitz by the middle linebacker didn't mean free candy in the vacated area, but rather an impending safety.

I wouldn't be super upset if we take Nelson at 5, but there is a pretty good reason NFL teams almost never draft guards, or centers, or middle linebackers in the top 5.

Playing a hybrid safety like a Kam Chancelor while in college translates very well to playing a cover 2 middle linebacker.

To help with the transition back to that spot, Bailey has leaned on his younger brother, Boss, a former NFL linebacker who over five years with the Lions and Broncos became well - versed in the challenges of covering wideouts, tailbacks and tight ends coming across the middle.

the Raiders major need is middle linebacker and both Smith and Edmunds could be better suited as outside linebackers.

His best play might have been a block, a wicked shot to Pittsburgh All - Pro middle linebacker Levon Kirkland that helped spring wide receiver Derrick Alexander on a winding, 82 - yard end - around for a third - quarter touchdown that closed all accounts.

Davis is probably a stronger pass rusher than he is a tackler anyway (he might be a rather poor tackler for a linebacker) and suddenly with him, Wagner, and K.J. Wright, Seattle has potentially the best middle of any defense in the league.

MIDDLE MAN: With two years of varsity experience already, senior inside linebacker Ferrin Manuleleua has averaged more than 100 tackles per season, including a team - best 116 in 14 games last year.

Losing Luke Kuechly for any significant period of time to his latest concussion issue will be a big concern for this team, but when he has been in the lineup they have once again had studs at each level of the defense, with maybe the game's best linebacker corps in the middle.

He's got the speed to play as an outside linebacker but is strong and agile enough to play in the middle as well.

Chris Partridge (middle) is a primary recruiter as well as linebackers coach and special teams coordinator for Michigan.

Carson: Well, you know, I got drafted to play here with the Giants and playing middle linebacker, which is at the time, it was a position normally reserved for white guys because white guys, you know, it's a thinking man's position, (laughter); but you know, that's what it was referred to as — a «thinking - man's position», because in essence, you...

I remember thinking, well, it's Hamlet as a middle linebacker instead of a rather esthetic contemplative person, but still, it's much better than I expected it to be.

I hate that Carter is played by frickin» Taylor Kitsch (better Taylor «Shtick,» though I guess «Kitsch» works fine), who can't play a Confederate gentleman any more than Glenn Close could play an English butler, and I don't like that Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins) is suddenly a scientist and I think a middle linebacker.

Credit 4Matic as well as traction control and electronic stability control for ballerina - like maneuvers from a middle linebacker.