They played more sub last year against the Colts and I expect that to be the case again this weekend, so it’s got to be Hightower and Collins most likely, with some Fletcher sprinkled in.
Collins is the storyline as I see it. They could protect him a bit with Spikes in the fold, but now he and Fletcher are going to see their snaps increase.
If/when they do go to base you’re looking at Hightower (SLB), Fletcher (MLB), Collins (WLB). 34 personnel becomes interesting as well, Spikes is a prototypical SILB in the 34, and without him they’d like have to put Hightower there.
I don’t know, they’ll just have to figure it out for a max of three games. The big problem would be against the Chargers in AFCCG or Seahawks/Panthers/49ers in the Super Bowl, but we’ll analyze those problems if/when we get there. They’d be high class problems to have anyway.