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Ken Lucas

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Lucas gets burnt just as easily as everyone else in the secondary. Unless it is a quick throw to Gamble (where he got his recent hype), Gamble gets abused just as easily. The DL and pass rush was a concern going in this year.......and it is showing in our secondary play. The scheme also doesn't help. A huge cushion given to WR w/ plenty of time to run and get open........how do you expect anybody to cover them.

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Lucas has a neck injury that is hurting his abilty to tackle. As far as coverage goes, the problem is more a lack of pressure from our d-line, than Lucas. Lewis can't push into the middle of the pocket for poo, that's why QB's just step up to avoid pressure from Peppers. The problem is Lewis. God I wish Jenkins would have kept his big mouth shut.

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lucas isn't playing well but we don't get very much pressure which really does not help our secondary at all

Lucas will not be replaced by marshall, i say this over and over again but nobody gets it, marshall plays the slot, he'll play that no matter what is going on

Lucas has not played up to his contract this year, but he will not be cut, i hope he gets a deal restructured if we keep him because we have alot of other guys who deserve the money more than he does

if we draft a CB then it will need to be another bigger guy who can help in run support and cover the larger recievers, marshall is too small to be an everydown player in this defense, he's good for his size but alot of bigger recievers can get the best of him

I don't know how this problem will be fixed other than lucas just playing better, if we get more pressure though this problem will be alot less obvious

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