Bobby Taylor at Safety

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Originally Posted by jacobyfan

I'm tired of people dinging Bowen. There are reasons that GW puts in a 3rd corner a lot of the time and one of them is so that a safety can play close to the line or blitz if needed. Bowen is one of the most hard-nosed players on our team. You need to remember that GW is a Buddy Ryan acolyte. Buddy Ryan disdained worrying about fancy coverages and instead used fairly simple coverages and innovative blitzes to get to QBs and make them throw into those simple coverages. GW is of course more advanced than that (as are most league D corrdinators nowadays), but he has that same mentality and I'd have to say that he probably really likes Bowen's toughness and wants him on the field unless it's an obvious passing situation and he's not blitzing Bowen. Just remember that especially with Arrington and Bowen back, you don't have to worry much about deep pass coverage if the QB is on his ass or falling backwards. I simply prefer to have a defense chock full of guys who will knock you the f*ck out. Just imagine if Barrow comes back at full speed and Rodgers picks up on the mentality of GW. EVERYONE at LB and DB would basically be a headhunter.

As far as BobbyT, I think he'd be nice to have at nickel in case someone gets hurt.

I agree completley about Bowen. I'm a huge Bowen fan, and he has blown a few plays and is not amazing in coverage. However, he is a hard nosed type guy, and I was really excited to see what he would do last season after he started out strong. Its ashame he got hurt. I expect some good things from him this season.