11-08-2011, 03:45 PM
(11-08-2011, 03:38 PM)Roberton3 link Wrote:I'd agree, but with one big caveat: because defenses adjust, it's always hard to tell how much an individual player contributes. Did other teams play their safeties deeper because of Owusu, thus giving more room to run the ball? Did they shade the safeties toward his side of the field, opening up space for other receivers? I suspect that at least some of the time, they did.
Maybe they've tilted safeties towards Owusu, but safeties have (in general) been playing extraordinarily close to the LOS. Not quite up to Gerhart standards, but pretty close.
