but teams knew his coverage liabilities they'd try and exexploit that. When you look at games from that era, he was the Mark Barron-type LBer in the nickel and even dime or the Craig Dahl, if you will.

Rams wanted him close to LOS where he could make some plays, but when teams committed to passing they'd try and get him to have to cover 1/2 the field and there he was not doing things well. He was not a complete safety with good ball skills. He was box safety-type