[stupac2]

I agree BC.  Martinez is still a beast in the middle but sometimes it seems like he's all alone in the middle of the field.  Palma is a good run stopper between the tackles and seems to do well in pass coverage but he lacks the speed to beat RBs to the sidelines.  Perez has the speed but seems to be out of position quite a bit and is not a good tackler.  And Kalambayi seems to have really dropped off compared to last year.  LB was the group I thought would be the bedrock of the defense this year, and it could be argued that it's the weakest of the three.

Is it that the LBs are weak, or that the DL is getting so little done that the LBs are forced to do more than they had to last year and thus aren't creating as much havoc? I tend to think that, given the fact that our DL is thin and undersized (even Shaw used that word to describe them), the rest of our defensive problems can trace back there. Maybe that's wrong, I dunno, but it seems right to me.

[stupac2]

I agree BC.  Martinez is still a beast in the middle but sometimes it seems like he's all alone in the middle of the field.  Palma is a good run stopper between the tackles and seems to do well in pass coverage but he lacks the speed to beat RBs to the sidelines.  Perez has the speed but seems to be out of position quite a bit and is not a good tackler.  And Kalambayi seems to have really dropped off compared to last year.  LB was the group I thought would be the bedrock of the defense this year, and it could be argued that it's the weakest of the three.

Is it that the LBs are weak, or that the DL is getting so little done that the LBs are forced to do more than they had to last year and thus aren't creating as much havoc? I tend to think that, given the fact that our DL is thin and undersized (even Shaw used that word to describe them), the rest of our defensive problems can trace back there. Maybe that's wrong, I dunno, but it seems right to me.