(S4) - Weekend PT #2 - Old School Football

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Cameron Taylor has the size and the speed to play current day safety or linebacker. Both positions require strength and speed in today’s game. Even on today’s game, we see college safeties transition to linebacker for their speed and coverage ability. Travel back in time to the late 80’s and 90’s, and we find an era where the linebackers of the league were built like brick houses. Taylor would be definitely too small to play such a strength focussed position. Guys like Brian Urlacher and Derrick Brooks were physically superior to almost anyone else on the field. They were still fast, but they used brute force to dominate. Cameron Taylor in that era would fit in more as a John Lynch, Steve Atwater type of safety. The game was much slower back then so it allowed safeties to not have to be so speedy and allow them to play closer in the box and lay some massive hits down. Taylor roaming through the middle of the field would fit his play style and the era’s style. So while Taylor would be a small linebacker or a slow safety in today’s game, he would fit right into a hard hitting strong safety stereotype that the 90s were so known for. 210 words