by Little Shrimp » Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:35 am
Gibson had a torrid 25 minutes that was even more noticeable given how solid he's been since he signed. But what was pleasing was that he seemed to recover a bit and find his feet, and played ok for the rest of the game.
Cooney can play LB pretty well as we've seen on quite a number of occasions, although I'm happy enough sticking with Gibson as we've seen enough good stuff from him to know that those first 25 mins were an exception. Will be interesting to see if SR opts to stick with McLaughlin at RB or goes back to Cooney on Tuesday.
I'd expect McCalmont to replace McLoughlin and am very much looking forward to having him and Phillips working in tandem a bit. It's a combo I'm interested in as I think they might dovetail nicely with Phillips being more about getting forward and McCalmont having more a tendency to drop a little deeper and pull strings. I would have liked to have seen it before now, but you can't really argue against McLoughlin having been a starter as he's had a good season so far.