Matt Spiegel

What does his film look like relative to Kevin Byard?

I guess what I'm really asking you is, is Kobe Bryant better than Kevin Byard?

Mm-hmm.

At this stage in his career, I think he has more range than Bayard.

I think Bayard, you know, obviously his instincts were incredible, you know, was in the right place at the right time a lot throughout his career.

But I think they wanted somebody who could be more of a post player when they do play single high safety structures, which Dennis Allen does like to do.

He likes to be in single high, whether it's cover one or cover three, and have somebody with the range to go from numbers to numbers in the back end.

And Kobe Bryant can do that at this point in his career better than Kevin Byard can.

As for.

the style of defense they played towards the end of the season, you saw Dennis Allen start to come out of his shell a little bit.

He blitzed a lot more later in the year.

He did play a lot more quarters later in the year.

He did stuff that we don't normally see.

But I think that was really more out of necessity than him actually wanting to do it, even though it worked really well.

So I think that the signings they made, particularly on the back end, signaled that, like, nope, this is going to be a cover three team.

And if they had the people to do it, that's what they're going to be.

I mean, obviously, I think it would have been a great fit for the Bears.

He would have been the best edge rusher on the team.

But at the same time, every single ball club is looking at the 2027 draft.

Like, everything is orbiting around 2027.