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Then why are you arguing a safety is a linebacker???All based on the player and scheme fit. That is my point.
Let me put it a different way. Most positions have responsibilities that overlap with other positions. On a running play every defender is a run defender for instance.
Some are better than others.
Chung is a good run playing safety. Harmon is not, for example. That doesn’t make Chung a lb it makes him a safety who is good in run support.
That is not unique at all to the patriots.
If you want to run a nickel base it makes your safety run defense more important to your success. It doesnt make your safety a lb.
Our nickel base is not a case of removing a lb and putting Chung in his spot playing like a lb. that would serve no purpose. It’s removing a lb and adding a safety, creating more liability up front that a good run defending safety is very worthwhile having.