2019 Draft - Interior DL

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by VeveJones007

Thinking about Ballard's comments on wanting an 8 man rotation on the DL and how important it is to him. That just reinforces my belief that he'll invest early picks on the defensive front. This rotation looks pretty darn good on paper and quite the improvement from 2017:

DE:
Houston
Sheard
Turay
#59 (Winovich, Polite, Ximines, etc.)

DT:
Autry
Lewis
Hunt
#26 or #34 (Wilkins, Simmons, etc.)

Why do you leave out Grover Stewart? Mind you...I'm not particularly a fan of Stewart, but it seems like the Colts coaches are. Toward the end of last season he was taking away snaps from Al Woods.

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Why do you leave out Grover Stewart? Mind you...I'm not particularly a fan of Stewart, but it seems like the Colts coaches are. Toward the end of last season he was taking away snaps from Al Woods.

I think Stewart is on the bubble depending on who the rookie is. The telling thing to me was how they started Hunt/Autry on the interior in the playoffs. Still, they need a bigger nose on the roster. Wilkins can play nose if they take him. Simmons would make Stewart’s spot safer for 2019 because of the injury.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by VeveJones007

I think Stewart is on the bubble depending on who the rookie is. The telling thing to me was how they started Hunt/Autry on the interior in the playoffs. Still, they need a bigger nose on the roster. Wilkins can play nose if they take him. Simmons would make Stewart’s spot safer for 2019 because of the injury.

Grover is playing 0 tech. If we draft a DT he will likely be a 3-tech and play next to him.

Unless we draft Dexter Lawrence who would also be a 0-tech. Even then it could be like Al Woods and Stewart last year. Then Hunt and Autry would be 3-techs (even though I saw Hunt listed as a NT) and Stewart and Lawrence the 0-techs.

[FatDT]

Don’t think any of our DTs play much 0 tech, don’t remember seeing anybody head-up on the center often at all.

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by FatDT

Don’t think any of our DTs play much 0 tech, don’t remember seeing anybody head-up on the center often at all.

Yeah, was my fault for bringing “nose” into the conversation. They don’t employ a true NT, but the guy in the A gap is the defacto nose when the other DT is in the B gap. They need someone who has the size/strength to hold up against the G/C double or beat that gap. That’s where I think they would primarily use Wilkins.

[FatDT]

Originally Posted by VeveJones007

Yeah, was my fault for bringing “nose” into the conversation. They don’t employ a true NT, but the guy in the A gap is the defacto nose when the other DT is in the B gap. They need someone who has the size/strength to hold up against the G/C double or beat that gap. That’s where I think they would primarily use Wilkins.

It was you saying 0-tech, which lines up between the A gaps, that I was referring to. Our nose plays mostly 1 tech, like you are saying, in the A gap.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by FatDT

It was you saying 0-tech, which lines up between the A gaps, that I was referring to. Our nose plays mostly 1 tech, like you are saying, in the A gap.

I think I brought up the 0-tech stuff too. But since Woods went down and they moved Hunt to NT, an experiment that largely paid off. Wth both guys in the A gap, do they continue that, or was it a gimmick formation they just employed from the past bc Hunt is a lighter NT than they would like?

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by FatDT

It was you saying 0-tech, which lines up between the A gaps, that I was referring to. Our nose plays mostly 1 tech, like you are saying, in the A gap.

Not that it really matters, but I never said 0-tech. I said nose, even though I meant it as a 1 tech in this scheme.

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

Grover is playing 0 tech. If we draft a DT he will likely be a 3-tech and play next to him.

Unless we draft Dexter Lawrence who would also be a 0-tech. Even then it could be like Al Woods and Stewart last year. Then Hunt and Autry would be 3-techs (even though I saw Hunt listed as a NT) and Stewart and Lawrence the 0-techs.

Eberflus has shown that he will switch things up. Remember the last 3-4 games where he had Hunt and Autry both line up in the A gaps?

Still, I think Eberflus would prefer his “base” 40 front to include one guy in the A gap and one guy at the 3 tech. That double A gap thing was a bit out of necessity since they only had Stewart left when Woods went down. I think Wilkins could absolutely play the A gap and could potentially take Stewart’s spot on the roster.