Trevon Diggs Tears ACL - Out For Season

[boozeman]

Were they playing hunger games or something today?

Thursdays are supposed to be walk throughs.

 

[boozeman]

This is the real issue, that it likely takes the defense down from potentially generational to just one of the best or the best in the league at the moment. Calling it a "mortal wound" is preposterous, especially when the defense rolled the Bucs and 49ers in the playoffs last year with Diggs/Bland/Mukuamu at CB.

Well if you think we were going to kick everyone’s ass, it is a mortal blow.

 

[dpf1123]

 

[Simpleton]

Yea, Bland started a bunch of games last year outside, Igbinoghene is probably depth at outside CB but if I had to guess Mukaumu would play before him in the slot.

 

[Genghis Khan]

They play a ton of nickel and dime, and they have Lewis on a snap count right now, so let's not kid ourselves that we can wave this away with our depth. I'm guessing we're going to need to see what Igbinoghene can do.

On a positive note, the timing isn't horrible, with Arizona and New England up the next two weeks. Plenty of time to get things sorted out.

 

[Simpleton]

Well if you think we were going to kick everyone’s ass, it is a mortal blow.

Sure, although I still expect this team to compete for the Super Bowl, I'm just less confident than I was previously. But I still think we're on par with the 49ers and better than the Eagles.

 

[Simpleton]

They play a ton of nickel and dime, and they have Lewis on a snap count right now, so let's not kid ourselves that we can wave this away with our depth. I'm guessing we're going to need to see what Igbinoghene can do.

On a positive note, the timing isn't horrible, with Arizona and New England up the next two weeks. Plenty of time to get things sorted out.

We barely ever play 4 CB's though, all the 6 DB packages are 3 CB's and 3 safeties.

Lewis being on a snap count and/or rusty is a good point, and while he looked fine Sunday they have to be careful with him.

 

[boozeman]

Fuck you, Nooch.

We don't need this shit from the likes of you.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Rev]

Fuck you, Nooch.

We don't need this shit from the likes of you.

No shit. A Never was is talking shit?

 

[boozeman]

 

[Simpleton]

I'd do it, depth both inside and outside.

 

[boozeman]

 

[boozeman]

I'd do it, depth both inside and outside.

Not certain both the Steelers and 49ers giving up on him in a couple of weeks probably does not mean he's a viable player any longer.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Time for Eric Scott to step up as a player now. I'm assuming he becomes the fifth corner for the time being.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Surely there's a better option.

 

[Cujo]

I think it's survivable. Simp is right, it's a deep position for us plus we have the best pass rush in the league.

 

[Cujo]

Surely there's a better option.

I would look around for some depth that might be had for a late round pick.

 

[bbgun]

I see we're in the "bargaining" stage of grief.

 

[Simpleton]

The best way I can put it in terms of our depth is last year we basically played Diggs/Brown/Lewis exclusively for about the first half of the season until Brown/Lewis got hurt. We still had an elite defense with that CB group, but is that trio better than Gilmore/Bland/Lewis?

Assuming Lewis is healthy, I'm probably going with the second group since Bland is significantly better than Brown.

Another interesting thing is that in the playoffs we only played a 3rd CB (Mukuamu) for 45% and 32% of the snaps against Tampa and SF respectively. I'd have to go back to see the all-22 but I think we used Kearse and Wilson a bit more in the slot there.