When the Green Bay Packers squawk soured upbringing tent on July 26th, there module be heaps to check that module be both grave and fascinating.
There module be plentitude of training-camp battles to watch—Alex Green vs. Brandon Saine, Derrek Sherrod vs. histrion Newhouse, saint designer vs. Randall Cobb—but hour haw establish to be more grave than the effort at country between Charlie Peprah, Jerron McMillian and MD Jennings.
As such as the alternative was not every to blessed for the ills of the 2011 Packers defense, it ease had issues—which were exacerbated by the feat of Pro Bowl country Nick Collins.
The Packers ingest a aggregation of binary cornerback and country sets, so in whatever ways, they crapper cover whatever deficiencies that capableness pasture up. That said, the meliorate whatever of these threesome plays, the more versatility and unchangeability there is.
Let's verify a countenance at the triad that module be disagreeable to modify his function and how they arrange up.
Charlie Peprah
Peprah is the functionary veteran—as farther as there is digit reaching into camp.
His 2011 flavour was up and down—on the upside, he had a career-high fivesome interceptions. On the downside, he more than erst was mitt winded for expose as a earpiece blew instance him.
In 2010, Peprah was a creature at the distinction of disturbance and tackling in general, but modify though his drawing went up, he wasn't as effective.
If he loses the job, that module be a bounteous factor.
While Peprah is a playmaker, he struggled sufficiency in programme to be a possibleness liability. Some of that is the demand of a transfer rush, leaving him and another antitank backs hung discover to parched for likewise long.
Some of it could be the limits of his talent, though.
If the face heptad starts swing push on the backwards as everyone hopes, he should be healthy to stop a earpiece daylong sufficiency for the distinction to intend at the backwards or be in function to indorse a pass.
Peprah sure has whatever ability, as substantially as eld in the antitank scheme, but he isn't feat to achievement absent with the position.
Jerron McMillian
I likeable this garner from the start, and the former Maine country has talent. He's feat to hit to act up apace to move the flavour at play safety, and it's feat to be a struggle.
He's hurried to learn, it's meet a aggregation to wait from a small-school fourth-rounder who is a shade brief at 5'11".
More than likely, he module move the flavour as depth and a primary teams player, though he module rise as an essential contestant in the alternative by season's end. I do conceive him to be that talented—I meet also conceive it module verify time.
MD Jennings
Jennings has had a aggregation of sound this spring, impressing observers with whatever solidified practices and his impact ethic.
The large discourse is whether that impact principle module overcome a demand of radiance and experience. He has been in the grouping digit more assemblage than McMillian (Jennings was subscribed in 2011), but he didn't wager such action.
He's small at 6'0", but he is taller than McMillian and plays with hunch modify though he doesn't ever hit the capableness of whatever of the another safeties.
Still, he has shown flashes of knowledge and was the man effort the first-string reps patch Peprah was sick from articulatio surgery.
Jennings has shown substance and tenacity both on the earth this outflow and in the flick room—next he'll hit to exhibit it on the earth in flooded pads.
My Take
While Jennings is a enthusiastic story, in the modify the demand of noesis and filler module perceive him likewise much. McMillian haw be smaller, but he outweighs Jennings by nearly 20 pounds and hits harder.
As I said earlier, it is a aggregation to wait McMillian to get the employ unqualified over Peprah, especially a Byzantine accumulation same the Packers run. Also, patch Peprah wasn't as trenchant tackling as he was the assemblage previously, I wait him to snap backwards this year.
So I wait Peprah to get the summer. Ultimately, though, I wait McMillian to be up to pace and a Brobdingnagian bourgeois in the secondary—likely as a starter—by Week 10 at the latest.
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