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Originally Posted by crispystl
I’m not a Spags hater. I’m middle of the road on him. I was just making an observation.
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There's nothing vanilla going on.
Vanilla would be rush four, play zone with two deep. That's vanilla.
Spags has blitzed LB'ers, safeties, corners, zone blitzed (that's when you see like Karlaftis drop while like Sneed blitzes) jailbreak blitzes, you name it. Rush 5, 6, from anywhere.
It's risky as ****.
Sometimes it gets your burned, and looks bad when it does.
I don't think that's what anyone, especially Spags would prefer. I bet he'd LOVE to be able to sit back in two deep most of the time. But if we did that now, we would NOT be 10-3 and this close to the #1 seed, I'll tell you that with no question.
We can't get home with 4. This is our biggest weakness. That, or our OT play. Either one of those might be enough to derail us from a SB trophy.
But as we're talking about defense, let's talk defense.
We have a player talent/production problem on the defensive line. We have Jones, who is doubled as much or more than anyone in football, a rookie who's trying to figure it out in Karlaftis, and a bunch of JAGS who can get some pressure here and there, maybe even a sack every once in awhile but cannot win one on one consistently.
This is where the Clark trade still hurts us. He's lousy. He's been lousy most of the time except the 2019 post season. We vastly overpaid in hindsight and it's handicapped us in terms of available resources. It was a fair bet that Veach made, there was no reason to expect the production to fall off of the cliff, but it sure did.
And the problem is, you can't get double digit sack production picking #30 or worse every year.
So we're going to have to try to buy a pass rusher (or multiple) again.
That's it. That's the only thing that makes for a top ten type defense.