Xavier Woods
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Oct 8, 2026
Lorin CoxGUEST
And then I'll add in that Dennis Allen's blitzing has been even more effective this season, and I, I think a lot of it has to do with the safeties that they have.
Lorin CoxGUEST
They're able to disguise coverages a lot more 'cause they can trust Thieneman and Xavier Woods now to kind of rotate and be anywhere in the defense in a way where before, like, you knew kind of where Jaquan Brisker was gonna be, and you knew what he could and couldn't do well, and that was kind of a tell for a lot of what he wanted to do.
Lorin CoxGUEST
Now he's got a couple versatile guys that can do a lot of different things, and so he can blitz in a lot of different ways or disguise in a lot of different ways, even when he isn't bringing that pass rush.
Lorin CoxGUEST
But I'm more wondering how this Packers offensive line lineup might change going into this week, just given that the injuries they're dealing with and then the veterans they signed, but not everybody was ready to go.
Lorin CoxGUEST
And then I'll add in that Dennis Allen's blitzing has been even more effective this season, and I, I think a lot of it has to do with the safeties that they have.
Lorin CoxGUEST
They're able to disguise coverages a lot more 'cause they can trust Thieneman and Xavier Woods now to kind of rotate and be anywhere in the defense in a way where before, like, you knew kind of where Jaquan Brisker was gonna be, and you knew what he could and couldn't do well, and that was kind of a tell for a lot of what he wanted to do.
Lorin CoxGUEST
Now he's got a couple versatile guys that can do a lot of different things, and so he can blitz in a lot of different ways or disguise in a lot of different ways, even when he isn't bringing that pass rush.
Lorin CoxGUEST
But I'm more wondering how this Packers offensive line lineup might change going into this week, just given that the injuries they're dealing with and then the veterans they signed, but not everybody was ready to go, so it could-
Phil OttochianHOST
Yep.
Phil OttochianHOST
Xavier Woods, Darnell Wright.
Phil OttochianHOST
Our reserve injured list, Shane.
Phil OttochianHOST
Britton Brown-
Lorin CoxHOST
There was a particular play that stood out to me with this in the Jets game where it wasn't even like the most complicated disguise in the world, but it was almost like a fake disguise that then disguised something else and you kind of stayed two steps ahead.
Lorin CoxHOST
There was a particular play against the Jets where, you know, I think it was third down and the Bears had everybody up on the line of scrimmage, right? Your four defensive linemen, your two linebackers are in the middle of those defensive linemen, and then you have Malik Muhammad on the edge outside of a defensive tackle, and then you had Xavier Woods up on the line of scrimmage as well.
Lorin CoxHOST
So you had essentially Dylan Thienemann was the single deep safety.
Lorin CoxHOST
You had Stevenson and Jalen Johnson alone on the outside and then everybody else up on the line of scrimmage.
Lorin CoxHOST
He loves to show that looks like we're going to send a blitz type of look, but he dropped out of that blitz into a standard cover three, three deep players, four underneath players.
Lorin CoxHOST
Usually when you drop into a cover three, your outside cornerbacks and your free safety are the deep players and then your linebackers, your slot cornerback, and your strong safety are kind of the underneath players, right? All the guys that were near the line of scrimmage do the underneath zones and everybody who wasn't at the line of scrimmage, they do the deep zones.
Lorin CoxHOST
But Dennis Allen called this a little bit differently and had Xavier Woods go from the line of scrimmage and run all the way back into a deep zone.
Lorin CoxHOST
And when Xavier Woods is going backwards, it looks like you're rotating your safeties from a single deep coverage with Dylan Thienemann just as the only safety back there, but now Woods is going back there.
Lorin CoxPANELIST
I think we're really seeing the fruits of their efforts to get more versatile safeties on the back end.
Lorin CoxPANELIST
There were a number of plays where you can either have Thienemann or Xavier Woods right near the line of scrimmage and rotate them all the way back to being a deep safety and split.
Lorin CoxPANELIST
You can go from a single deep safety coverage to a two deep safety coverage or you can rotate a safety back but still have it be have both safeties deep and have it be cover three like a cloud coverage on one side and single coverage the other so it's harder for the quarterback to see what's going on with each side of the field looks differently and I was just struck by sitting there watching it and feeling like If that was Jaquan Brisker, I don't know that they could have him turn and run back.
Lorin CoxPANELIST
I mean, they would ask him to do that occasionally, but I don't know that he would do a good job of it or that you'd trust it to call it all that much.
Matt AbbatacolaHOST
He said that he was bored during the game.
Matt AbbatacolaHOST
Xavier Woods.
Matt AbbatacolaHOST
I'm not sore at all.
Matt AbbatacolaHOST
I get it.
Ricky RoderickHOST
... only two are solo.
Ricky RoderickHOST
Dylan Thieneman and Xavier Woods were your 100% safeties.
Ricky RoderickHOST
Malik Muhammad was your slot cornerback because Kam Lewis was out.
Ricky RoderickHOST
Kyler Garden's 21-day practice window was also opened last week, so don't get too excited about Malik Muhammad.
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Ricky RoderickHOST
So when he says he went and, you know, it helped him in a bunch of leagues, that gives you a little bit of context as well.
Ricky RoderickHOST
He plays in a lot.
Ricky RoderickHOST
Okay, um, Jesse Bates and Xavier Woods.
Ricky RoderickHOST
Bates in particular came out a little bit early 'cause of the blowout, and he is older than Woods and all, and he only played 80% of the snaps.
Jared PaytonHOST
But they're starting to kind of play into figuring out the, what guys do well, and DA puts his guys in situations to be successful.
Olin KreutzGUEST
Yeah, it's a great point, Jared, because when you turn the film on this morning, the all-22 is out, and you get to see the secondary play their coverages and communicate with each other, and Jaylon Johnson passing off a receiver to Dylan Thieneman, you know, Xavier Woods, right? Malik Muhammad.
Olin KreutzGUEST
These are names we didn't think we were gonna say-
Jared PaytonHOST
[chuckles]
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