mybills
10-04-2006, 08:09 AM
The Bills start two ex-Bears, left tackle Mike Gandy and right guard Chris Villarrial, but Villarrial is injured and Levy admits, "Our offensive line is still a work in progress."
It points to what rapidly is becoming the Bears' biggest matchup advantage: their defensive line against whoever is trying to block them.
"Tommie Harris has five sacks already?" Levy asked. "That's great when you have tackles who can do that in that style of defense. The Bears' ends and ours are tremendously mobile. Our defensive ends are not well known yet, but [Aaron] Schobel and [Chris] Kelsay and [Ryan] Denney, we rotate them. But we don't get the same type of pressure from our interior guys that Tommie Harris is providing."
Rotating the defensive line is imperative, especially in the Cover-2.
"If you want them to play the style of defense the Bears play, and I hope we play, if you want guys to swarm, you can't ask a guy to run at 100-yard-dash pace for a mile," Levy said.
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/cs-0610040146oct04,1,7544633.story?coll=cs-football-print
It points to what rapidly is becoming the Bears' biggest matchup advantage: their defensive line against whoever is trying to block them.
"Tommie Harris has five sacks already?" Levy asked. "That's great when you have tackles who can do that in that style of defense. The Bears' ends and ours are tremendously mobile. Our defensive ends are not well known yet, but [Aaron] Schobel and [Chris] Kelsay and [Ryan] Denney, we rotate them. But we don't get the same type of pressure from our interior guys that Tommie Harris is providing."
Rotating the defensive line is imperative, especially in the Cover-2.
"If you want them to play the style of defense the Bears play, and I hope we play, if you want guys to swarm, you can't ask a guy to run at 100-yard-dash pace for a mile," Levy said.
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/cs-0610040146oct04,1,7544633.story?coll=cs-football-print