From the Raiders game on, our opponents have slowly figured out ways to attack our defense. The Cardinals finally put the whole puzzle together yesterday.
The short passing game. Tha slants. The backs catching the ball out of backfield.
Our DBs have speed to hang with most receivers. If you go max protect and sending out two to three ball catchers, our DBs can stick with them with enough time to allow the D-Line with the combination of Linebacker blitzes to force bad throws or sacks. If you run the ball, our D-Line with the linebackers generally do a good job stopping you on your track.
So comes the multiple targets, short passing game. And it puts us in a bad position. Our D-Line is not that great to break them down for a QB in a 3 - 4 steps drop. Our DBs are not that physical to beat up on receivers in the first 5 - 7 yards (save for Youboty). And our linebackers are not that good in coverage, especially Poz - as good as he has played so far, his position calls for a big coverage area and he's not up to the task yet.
We scored 17 points by the middle of 3rd quarter. The Redskins scored 17 points to win against the same Cardinals with all of their receivers healthy. The difference: The Redskins CBs can play physical man-to man coverage. They did it against the Cards, they did against the Cowboys, and they did it again yesterday. That freed up linebackers and safeties to do other things.
I can see why we drafted McKelvin and Corner because the current talent there won't allow us to do that. Warner did the best Tom Brady impression in that game to us, picking us apart.
In hindsight, and maybe in the future, we might as well take some chances and play more man and just send people after the QB. We'll lose some battles, but we may get some turnovers in return.
The short passing game. Tha slants. The backs catching the ball out of backfield.
Our DBs have speed to hang with most receivers. If you go max protect and sending out two to three ball catchers, our DBs can stick with them with enough time to allow the D-Line with the combination of Linebacker blitzes to force bad throws or sacks. If you run the ball, our D-Line with the linebackers generally do a good job stopping you on your track.
So comes the multiple targets, short passing game. And it puts us in a bad position. Our D-Line is not that great to break them down for a QB in a 3 - 4 steps drop. Our DBs are not that physical to beat up on receivers in the first 5 - 7 yards (save for Youboty). And our linebackers are not that good in coverage, especially Poz - as good as he has played so far, his position calls for a big coverage area and he's not up to the task yet.
We scored 17 points by the middle of 3rd quarter. The Redskins scored 17 points to win against the same Cardinals with all of their receivers healthy. The difference: The Redskins CBs can play physical man-to man coverage. They did it against the Cards, they did against the Cowboys, and they did it again yesterday. That freed up linebackers and safeties to do other things.
I can see why we drafted McKelvin and Corner because the current talent there won't allow us to do that. Warner did the best Tom Brady impression in that game to us, picking us apart.
In hindsight, and maybe in the future, we might as well take some chances and play more man and just send people after the QB. We'll lose some battles, but we may get some turnovers in return.
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