Pass rush

gtgilbert · Nov 30, 2017

JTBama said:
The defensive ends though have a lot more to do with sacks than the numbers recorded. Pressure on the ends forcing the qb or breakdown of the play allows the linebackers to have a field day in the middle, if you're using blitz packages, then that is especially designed for linebacker sacks. We even use our linebackers as defensive end hybrids , so it really has a lot to do.with how you are using your defensive schemes. When I played college football, our coach would always award nonsacks to the guys who forced the play into a resulting sack. It was kind of an unofficial acknowledgment of a play or player.

You're right on both, which is why we have both more sacks and pressures from the OLBs than from DL.

We have two nickel personnel groupings. One where we play an OLB on the line with 3 DL, and the other we play two OLBs on the line with only 2 DL. In dime we play with 2 OLBs on the line almost all the time except some of the more exotic ones we ran this year - in those we still often brought 2 OLBs just from different spots or would drop an OLB for an ILB to blitz. We even had a dime package in 2016 where we used 3 OLBs and only one true DL. That's why the OLB group has typically led the team in pressure and sacks even if the ILB sacks are excluded. Add in the handful of ILB sacks and the LB group increases the gap even more.

RT27 · Nov 30, 2017

Whomever we play and where ever we play them, we must put their QB on his tail multiple times or we will not be enjoying the game. The close games and the loss to me had so much to do with no pressure on the QB in those games. When you play good teams you have to pressure the QB and stop the passing attack. Until we do that decent to good QB's will find open guys and kill us.

gtgilbert · Nov 30, 2017

RT27 said:
Whomever we play and where ever we play them, we must put their QB on his tail multiple times or we will not be enjoying the game. The close games and the loss to me had so much to do with no pressure on the QB in those games. When you play good teams you have to pressure the QB and stop the passing attack. Until we do that decent to good QB's will find open guys and kill us.

Agreed - we're averaging one sack per game less than last year so other areas have picked up the slack somewhat, but the OLB group that got 25 sacks last year has ONE this year. Might give that grouping credit for a couple more since moses and Evans lined up as OLBs sometimes, but even if that position had 4 or 5 total, it's a HUGE drop off.

TheRealPokeChop · Nov 30, 2017

Talent drain to the NFL. Had two years of amazing pass rushers. Losing bo davis and taking a beating in dline recruiting the last two years did not help,

I really miss Bo davis, id love of we hired his identical twin Mo Davis who has a large mustache and a thick head of hair that is definitely not a wig

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