lamafist
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Idk if adding another average LB helps. Valentine is a boost and so would be Mitchell. Either way I hate our LB lol.
McClellin might be "another average LB" overall, but in terms of relative strengths and weaknesses, he has the athleticism and speed to cover RB's out of the backfield and and run with TE's on crossers and in the short-to-medium areas a high safety can't close on.
Without someone like that, it's tough to play the type of true press man coverage that best suits our secondary, which is why we saw the ill-fated Richards-at-LB experiment in week 1.
Unless Patricia and BB think they can turn career special-teamer Marquis Flowers ready for primetime defensive snaps , health permitting, I think McClellin is the #1 priority to bring back from IR.