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Originally Posted by All22
Most of your defensive players are super aggressive, for better or worse. The opposite of GB. Their safeties were so ****ing timid.
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And by and large, I'm fine with that. Mathieu and Ward have the athleticism to manage it. Sorensen is actually pretty calculating in his aggression - he's not actually someone that seeks to be
first to the pile, he just makes sure that when he gets there, he gets there with bad intentions.
Hitchens is actually doing a decent job this year understanding his roles. He's not a guy that will take himself out of plays that often. Ragland will, but ultimately if I have a choice between him playing downhill and taking himself completely out of a play or playing more passive and being a step too slow to make a play in space anyway, I'll take the aggression. Wilson's been quite good this year.
The DL - yeah, you think whatever you want about those guys. That's a ****ing stellar group and I'm looking forward to them going out there and giving some talking heads a mushroom tattoo. Those guys have played exceptionally smart football for about 10 weeks and they've done it while playing with a ferocity you rarely see. I have very few concerns about this DL - they'll do their jobs and then some.
The game may just come down to Breeland not being an idiot and Hitchens being locked in. If Hitchens can flow/react as he needs to to keep those stretch plays from breaking for 6-8 yards with regularity and force the 49ers into 3rd downs and then Breeland can manage to not allow them to convert those 3rd downs with regularity, I think we'll be okay on defense.
Not great, but okay. As I've said all along - the offense will have to win this sucker and if they don't answer the bell, we lose.