Sentences with phrase «when middle linebackers»

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To generate offense against Auburn requires dropping back and making the linebackers worry about covering routes in the middle or attacking the cornerbacks down the sidelines, when they're isolated by coverages that involve the safeties in the run game.

Versatile DBs who can cover different kinds of receivers are everything, the equivalent of the classic middle linebacker in yesteryear, when it was all about hitting the point of attack in the run game.

2nd round you pick an outside linebacker when the Chargers need a stud middle linebacker who will be healthy 16 games a season.

Three times named to All - Pro teams and picked by the Hall of Fame as the outstanding linebacker of the NFL's first 50 years, Nitschke was only the Packers» third - string middle linebacker when he announced, with tears in his eyes, that he was quitting after 15 years in the game.

Al Smith, who played middle linebacker for the Houston Oilers from 1987 through 1996, remembers entering the NFL when African - American middle linebackers were a rarity.

Asking an inside or a middle linebacker to play the Edge and rush the passer 50 % -60 % of the time (something most MLB only do when they blitz) or seal the edge in run support 30 % -40 %, or cover the flat about 10 % of the time is a completely different position.

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.