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Cravens is not an ideal Safety. He's actually and Ideal Outside LB in a 4-3. We will never run a 4-3 though. Most scouts pegged him as an LB. I actually think our two best linebackers on the team for this defense are Sua Cravens and Garvin. If we could run the 4-3 it would be...

OLB Garvin
MLB Compton or Foster
OLB Cravens

Yet again, I doubt we go to a 4-3.

Biggest issue with moving Cravens to safety in Joe Barry defense is he requires his safeties to be interchangeable. So there really is no "strong safety" and "free safety"

Cravens is a liability when it comes to using his hips and lateral movement. I actually like how he's being used right now in our 4-2-5 package. Only issue with this package is we don't have the beef on the line to stop the runs from shotgun and pistol. Compton is terribly slow as well and his speed from sideline to sideline is below average.

This defense right now is built for turnovers and for us to obtain leads, force teams to pass, and play catch up. Yet, we seem to only throw up points when we are falling behind and fail in the redzone early.

If we want to focus on this type of fast offense in the future. We need to get faster on defense too.