When the Bears saw Jonathan Bullard sitting there for them to take in the third round of the 2016 NFL draft they had to be rubbing their hands with a “cat ate the canary grin” plastered on their collective faces in the Bears’ war room.
Why wouldn’t they? I’m sure they had visions of he and Leonard Floyd growing together and developing into the leagues next great young pass rushing tandem. Ryan Pace could imagine them terrorizing starting quarterbacks and keeping NFL offensive coordinators up at night trying to develop a game plan trying to stop their starting quarterback from spending Sunday afternoon on the turf.
I used Malik Jackson as an example, but you can also add in Derek Wolfe or Justin Smith and Ray McDonald of the 49ers too. They all play a similar role. In my last article/blog I wrote about how Floyd could be used like the 49ers used Aldon Smith and through stills showed how they can get him clean through stunts and twists.
Now there will be times where these guys will have to win one-on-one match-ups, but when a play is really needed at the right times expect the Bears to unleash these schematic ways of exploiting their players talents to confuse the offense’s blocking schemes, and creating just that fraction of a second necessary to get home and make that play.
Just as in the other article I will be using stills from video taken from DraftBeakdown.com and NFL.com’s Game pass to show how Bullard can help execute similar plays both Vic Fangio and John Fox have used in the past with their former teams.
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