Originally posted by jonnydel:
ILB - This is gonna be a rough situation for the remainder of the season. Hodges was already benched. Considering I said last week that he played one of the worst games from a LB I'd seen in a while - not surprised one bit. Wilhoite played a little better, but he's still Wilhoite. He's almost like a Blaine Gabbert of LB's. He can do a few things from time to time to make you start to believe, but in the end is just, "meh". Doesn't make the big plays when they're there and plays too passively. Bellore got taken advantage of when he came in as well. The very first play after Bow went down the Cowboys ran right at Bellore for 20+.
DB - I thought our DB's played fairly well. The biggest problem we had in the passing game was that we couldn't stop the run game consistently. Because we were struggling with gap integrity JoN had to rely on a lot of run blitzes to fill the gaps, which exposed the secondary.
Very true about Wilhoite. He didn't look quite as out-of-place as Hodges. I hope Skov can offer a little something, despite his lack of speed.
What are your thoughts about Bethea? IMO he seems to go to the right place, but isn't fast enough or strong enough to make a timely play. I assume that he's O'Neil's safety blanket, but it feels like a weak or poorly placed blanket.
