Dime packages: Defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt is following through on his pre-spring statement that he’ll use more dime packages, which was basically absent in last year’s Georgia’s defense. What’s interesting is how it’s being incorporated right now.
Damian Swann, the senior cornerback, is playing inside at what the team calls the “Money” spot in the dime. It’s basically an inside linebacker spot.
“It’s like playing the star (position),” Swann said after practice. “It’s just on the other side. I mean you’re pretty much doing the same thing you probably would do if you were playing the star. And I actually played a little bit of that my freshman year when we played dime against South Carolina here. I enjoyed that. It’s just another opportunity for me to make plays, doing something else.”
Ramik Wilson and Amarlo Herrera, the two starting inside linebackers in the base defense, are alternating as the lone inside linebacker on the dime package.
They may actually try to have someone on the field who can cover an inside crossing route on obvious passing downs? Jeremy Pruitt, I think I love you.