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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Ridiculous assertion........since when do the Pats play a Tampa 2 defense?....Does Meriweather play only on one side?........maybe in Indy.....not in any 3-4 defense,that I know of.
Also,you might want to change the nomenclature of the "free" safety to "enslaved"......However,I'm sticking with the terminology of "strong" or "tight"
Safety.........Why?........think......answer....The TE side of the formation.
I agree that Belichick will mix up the coverages and does not play only two safeties throught the game in the nice clean positions of FS and SS.
However, one of the safeties on the field has the responsibility for calling the plays in the secondary. That has been Sanders.
Also, the safety playing with Meriweather (who plays almost always; 94% last year) need to have coverage skills.
Someone in the backfield need to be able to play centerfield when the other safety blitzes. Perhaps you want Meriweather to perform that function?
One thing that came to mind from earlier in this thread was comments about Sanders calling the plays, and comparing Chung to Sanders (and Harrison also.) Then there were also assertions that if Chung isn't starting week one then he would be considered a bust. Well guess what, neither Sanders nor Harrison became a starter till each of their third seasons.
Hopefully Chung progresses in his ability to make proper pre and post snap reads, but it wouldn't be shocking at all if he is not a starter until 2011.
That's true, you are correct. I was looking at it from the perspective of who started the season as a starter as some here seem to be ready to consider Chung a bust if he is not starting in week one. I was also looking at who started the majority of games, (5 out of 16 regular season games and 8 out of 19 total.) Sanders was starting only due to Rodney Harrison's injury and would not have been starting if Harrison could have played at the end of that season; I consider Harrison and Hawkins to be the starting safeties in 2006.Sanders took over the starting job in his second season, starting 8 of the team's last 10 games, including all 3 games in the playoffs.