Rocky Returns

pretty low risk move here. we bring back a guy who has been with the franchise for a while on a 1 year deal who will at least provide depth and has started for us for the last several years. i like the move.

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Rocky like many players in this defense last year made a lot of mistakes. A LOT. I wanted an upgrade as well, maybe Barnett, oh well.

Lets not act like he is camp fodder though, he made 155 tackles last season. Played his best games in weeks 12-16. If he is healthy he will start beside London IMO.

I don't know why you guys are so down on Rocky. He's nothing spectacular, but he's a solid starter and we basically signed him for no money. We definitely gave up too much for him to draft him, but we made a lot of horrible moves back then.

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Rocky was serviceable. I never thought he was terrible. We are in sore need of LBs across the board. I bet we draft 2 LBs next year.

I think everyone is on the same page (or a few pages away) on Rocky. Alexander is in the mix as well right? I heard he was learning ILB too.

I think it was a good move for depth. I remember Rocky having a hard time getting playing time when he first got here because he couldn't seem to grasp the defense. He definitely has the physical tools. WTH...one year. Might as well.

Maybe one of the folks here who has retained tapes of Redskins' games from last year might have this stat on hand - - or might try to go and get it:


I wonder what percentage of the time on defense that the Redskins lined up in a 3-4 defense last year My guess is less than 60% of the time because I saw them in a 4-3 or a 4-2-5 more than just once in a while.


I do not think that the Redskins were playing 3-4 an overwhelming number of defensive snaps last year.


So - - if you think Rocky might not be ideal for ILB in a 3-4, perhaps that is not what they want to have him do this year. Maybe he is their OLB in the 4-3...???

Maybe one of the folks here who has retained tapes of Redskins' games from last year might have this stat on hand - - or might try to go and get it:


I wonder what percentage of the time on defense that the Redskins lined up in a 3-4 defense last year My guess is less than 60% of the time because I saw them in a 4-3 or a 4-2-5 more than just once in a while.


I do not think that the Redskins were playing 3-4 an overwhelming number of defensive snaps last year.


So - - if you think Rocky might not be ideal for ILB in a 3-4, perhaps that is not what they want to have him do this year. Maybe he is their OLB in the 4-3...???
we're not going back to the 4-3, and Rocky may not even be on the team come week 1, this signing could be a back up/camp body signing.

Maybe one of the folks here who has retained tapes of Redskins' games from last year might have this stat on hand - - or might try to go and get it:


I wonder what percentage of the time on defense that the Redskins lined up in a 3-4 defense last year My guess is less than 60% of the time because I saw them in a 4-3 or a 4-2-5 more than just once in a while.


I do not think that the Redskins were playing 3-4 an overwhelming number of defensive snaps last year.


So - - if you think Rocky might not be ideal for ILB in a 3-4, perhaps that is not what they want to have him do this year. Maybe he is their OLB in the 4-3...???

Four most recent games I've seen (Dallas week 1, Green Bay, Minnesota, Jacksonville) all saw the team play about 80% of their defensive snaps with a 3-4 alignment. The only times they went away from it was on obvious passing downs with different 4 man fronts (sometimes 2 man seeing as how they had two or three guys standing up).

I know with Indy they tried some sort of amoeba defense but other then that I'd say they were true to the 3-4 most of the year. Biggest difference though between the first half of the season and the last half came in the amount of blitzing. First half they were extremely aggressive, second half was more bend don't break.

Chicago might have had more 4 man fronts but I'm guessing that based on how that game served as Haynesworth marquee game in 2010.