Well a fantastic thread so far and there are only two posts. I can't add anything in terms of football acumen but I can ask questions
I'll start up front w/ the line and work backwards. The comments about Daniels looking slow don't surprise one bit cuz I thought the same thing. How worrisome is this? He's 36 and it's his first game in almost two years so can we reasonably hope he gets a bit more agile over the next few games OR is it time to make him a reserve and test the other guys? I really like what i'm seeing/hearing about Zo. The dude lost some weight and really seems to have increased his agility/quickness but still plays around 285 lbs. Sounds like a perfect fit at LDE and since this is one of the easiest positions to learn in Blache's scheme (and maybe overall in the game) I'd like to think he's a real prospect...Jarmon is prolly too inexperienced at this point.
Per the LB corp I see Rocky around the ball way more than I remember last year. I picked up on one of his misses on Bradshaw...three is a pattern so that's worrisome. Anyway the question is if we do go more w/ Cobra packages as suggested it means London and Rocky are the main "tacklers" on the field: working as a twosome are they up to that challenge?
And finally as to the secondary. Eff this is where things get complicated IMO. It sounds like on the one hand Blache expects single coverage of these guys much of the time but simultaneously asks them to play well off the LOS i.e. soft coverage. The two things seem utterly contradictory but that's what I take from it...am I missing something? To dig a little deeper it also sounds like the fact our CBs have differing talents they don't necessarily compliment one another. Namely, Los is a damn good cover corner...just strait up man coverage and that WR is taken out of the play. Meanwhile Hall is better suited in a zone scheme. How can Blache scheme to both their strengths? Or...is it plausible that if Hall stops playing like a pussy he'll actually fair pretty well in man-coverage (hopefully he can learn to jam a WR in the next 4 days LOL)?
My last question is sort of general... what more is there to know about the Cobra package? I ask because we've got some really nice talent among the safeties but it doesn't come wrapped in a bow (tied around one or two guys head). Horton strikes me as the best tackler among the group...and damn he looks stout for a safety. He looks like the WLB in the Tampa 2 defense. I want him on the field. Doughty is the smartest from what I see and therefor the best at reading the offense/play. Landry...Landry has all the GD talent in the friggin world but it doesn't translate into what I would call elite FS work on the field.