Baldinger on Tyrice Knight

[Ozzy]

Macdonald is working some magic on defense. Getting Jones and Knight playing well together has been massive. This is why we hired a defensive guru, hopefully starting to pay off.

 

[CPHawk]

Has JS done it again at the LB position and successfully drafted Wagners replacement?

Wasn’t he a Mac find?

 

[sutz]

Gotta love how he doesn't just charge the line, but patiently reads the blocks and maintains gap integrity.

Hope he can keep it up. Double plus good!

 

[hawks85]

I really like this kid.

 

[nanomoz]

Wasn’t he a Mac find?

I believe I read that Macdonald lobbied for him, yeah.

 

[onanygivensunday]

I believe I read that Macdonald lobbied for him, yeah.

I heard that he POUNDED the table until it broke.

 

[AROS]

My Rookie Pet Project! This is a very good sign for the future of our D.

 

[Shane Falco]

He looked really good to me in that 49ers game. Very promising start these last couple of games for our two lb'ers. Hope they can keep it up and we can finally say we are set at that position outside of depth.

 

[Sperrydogg]

Bumping this after Tyrice's first start - he did great. Starter-caliber qualities and he made some solo plays to slam the door shut on the 9ers. Between him and IV, gaps are now getting fitted and tackles are getting made. Night and day difference.

Dodson and Baker weren't good moves. Mike figured that out and turned it around, midseason, into IV and Tyrice at the cost of a fourth-rounder. Fixed the run defense in the span of three games. Frankly, I find Mike's offseason mistakes less significant than his ability to pivot like that.

Knight and day difference

 

[GetNjigbaWithIt]

Knight and day difference

 

[Sperrydogg]

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I was just repeating what Montana said… he just spelled it wrong

 

[OrangeGravy]

The thing i love about him is that he has great anticipation of moment of contact and does a good job of getting there a splitvsecond before. This gives him outstanding leverage against o lineman to whom he's giving up significant mass. Its a trait you see in great RBs quite often and pops on the elite defenders. Chancellor and Beastmode are to prime examples. Lynch and Cam would regularly knock the snot out of guys outweighing them by a ton because the knew precisely the moment to engage them.

Knight shows that trait in almost every clip in the way he engages lineman and hits his man for the take down.

Great addition for sure.

Nice find.

It's an underrated skill/instinct in RBs/WRs with the ball in their hands. Too me, it's most notable when they need to get 2 or 3 extra yards for a first down. The guys that have it, cut upfield and go through the defender before he has a chance to square his shoulders and brace for contact. Essentially you make the guy catch you. Impossible for them to drive you backwards. The really good ones move laterally to make the defender open his hips then drive upfield through them.
It's kind of hard to explain unless you've experienced it on both ends. It stands out dramatically in youth football and why not going fullspeed or playing tentatively gets you hurt

 

[MontanaHawk05]

Knight and day difference

TBH, I really can't believe I miss this one. I feel duly ashamed.

 

[keasley45]

It's an underrated skill/instinct in RBs/WRs with the ball in their hands. Too me, it's most notable when they need to get 2 or 3 extra yards for a first down. The guys that have it, cut upfield and go through the defender before he has a chance to square his shoulders and brace for contact. Essentially you make the guy catch you. Impossible for them to drive you backwards. The really good ones move laterally to make the defender open his hips then drive upfield through them.
It's kind of hard to explain unless you've experienced it on both ends. It stands out dramatically in youth football and why not going fullspeed or playing tentatively gets you hurt

Yup.

Spoon. Lynch. Chancellor

Deebo, Kittle

Bolden

Carson

Atwater v Okoye.

Chancellor v Winston.

Its why a smaller guy can pancake a guy considerably larger.

Its why i loved rbs like Earl Campbell, Sweetness - not that Earl was small. They knew the art of hitting.

 

[SeaWolv]

Looks like he played even better against SF than he did against Detroit:



Atlanta is a little concerning.

 

[Aircrew]

Wasn’t he a Mac find?

Yes, and JS was scolded by the media vomit talking piss flaps that Tyrice was a big time reach. Time will tell but it's looking promising.

If Macdonald wants the "right guy" more than the "best guy", then we have a damn good coach.

 

[MontanaHawk05]

Here's more. Starting to look, dare I say, elite.

 

[GetNjigbaWithIt]

Here's more. Starting to look, dare I say, elite.

If anyone here, for some reason, still needs proof that MM knows what a good LB looks like, look no further than #48.

 

[HAWKN'83]

Here's more. Starting to look, dare I say, elite.

That's Bam Bam in a new uni number! WOW!

 

[chris98251]

That's Bam Bam in a new uni number! WOW!

A little ways to go before he can be anointed the stealer of souls, but he is improving to the point where teams have to account for him now.