“The safety position used to be a run support position,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. “Now it’s not near as much of that… The in the box safeties really are not in the box anymore. They are becoming dinosaurs.” The traditional designations of strong safety and free safety are a thing of the past, like a printed road map. Safeties have to be able to do all in most schemes. There are a few defenses, like the one in Seattle, that still do it the old way. But the Seahawks, with Earl Thomas at free and Kam Chancellor at strong, are the exception rather than the rule.