\n From @MicGerwing on X\/Twitter<\/p>\n
How are those CBs, especially Mike Hughes and Clark Philips, doing? The most talked about CB seems to be Natrone Brooks and I think I haven’t heard anything about those two so far. And who is the frontrunner for that nickel spot? Dee Alford, Billy Bowman and Philips in play there?<\/p>\n
Mike Hughes continues to be one of the more undervalued and under apprecaited pieces of this team, in my opinion. He is a solid compliment to A.J. Terrell, and continues to make his presence known, even when the defense isn’t going 100% (an example being when he had a couple punch outs and PBUs through the last two practices this past weekend).<\/p>\n
Despite the fact Raheem Morris said the Falcons are planning on moving Phillips more inside to play (and compete) at nickel, that hasn’t really manifested much in training camp. The last couple days, especially, Phillips has worked primarily on the outside with the second-team defense. And even that has been overshadowed by (to your point) Brooks’ play, which I do agree is notable and making an early case to keep him on this 53-man roster. If I am being honest, I worry about Phillips getting passed by.<\/p>\n
Which brings us to nickel: It’s obvious this is a two-man race with Alford in the lead. He’s getting majority of the starting looks, with Bowman taking the second-team reps. That’s not to say Bowman can’t make a push as camp goes along, but that’s how things are looking right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From @MicGerwing on X\/Twitter How are those CBs, especially Mike Hughes and Clark Philips, doing? The most talked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,11411,22250,9592,224,7,703,1879,27651,88,6,8896],"class_list":{"0":"post-254112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-clark-phillips-iii","12":"tag-david-sills","13":"tag-divine-deablo","14":"tag-falcons","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-james-pearce-jr","17":"tag-michael-penix-jr","18":"tag-natrone-brooks","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114955294428534613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}