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[quote author=VFRing98 link=topic=17353.msg199976#msg199976 date=1505016689]
What defensive line?

And the guys behind them at ILB are for the most part undersized. Too many times they were moved out of position too easily. Palma was the only exception, and his pass coverage is mediocre at best. Alfieri might "still be learning the position" but you might as well throw him out there because the guys taking snaps in his place are - just like last year - not good enough
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I tend to agree. If we are going to play with only 2 DL, because we don't have enough good "big" ones, the ILBs have to play well. We haven't seen that against good teams. We may be in a situation where we just don't have the personnel no matter how we deploy them. It isn't "just one bad game". Granted, the ILBs may have had a bad game, but when have we see them have a "good" one? None that I recall.

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[quote author=VFRing98 link=topic=17353.msg199976#msg199976 date=1505016689]
What defensive line?

And the guys behind them at ILB are for the most part undersized. Too many times they were moved out of position too easily. Palma was the only exception, and his pass coverage is mediocre at best. Alfieri might "still be learning the position" but you might as well throw him out there because the guys taking snaps in his place are - just like last year - not good enough
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I tend to agree. If we are going to play with only 2 DL, because we don't have enough good "big" ones, the ILBs have to play well. We haven't seen that against good teams. We may be in a situation where we just don't have the personnel no matter how we deploy them. It isn't "just one bad game". Granted, the ILBs may have had a bad game, but when have we see them have a "good" one? None that I recall.