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He obviously saw limited action, for good reason prolly. But as a straight ahead edge rusher he looked unstoppable. A tank that couldn't be handled outside in space with a full head of steam. He is a low to the ground cannon ball. With our linemen maybe it's a fit. Him, or Babin, or maybe Mauldin can maybe do some damage with the the guys we have up front. Sheldon, Mo, Coples , and Williams are gonna get their share too.
I actually want to see the defense with Leonard Williams, Sheldon Richardson, Muhammad Wilkerson, Damon Harrison, and Quinton Coples on the line AT THE SAME TIME.
I wasn't to see that front against proven cheater T*m Br*dy on first down with press on the receivers
I think we actually could do this as a special package. Kinda like that Nascar package the Giants ran a few years ago... Williams - Wilkerson - Harrison - Richardson - Coples Revis-----Milner Skrine-----Cro -----------------------Harris------------------- -----------------------Pryor-------------------- Unleash that front 5 and press the outside with Revis and Cro! Put Milner on the TE down the seam and Skrine on the slot receiver. Let Harris patrol the 2nd level and Pryor to help over the top! Not a package we can run all the time but certainly a package we could run on 3rd down from time to time.
I see three major flaws in that lineup. Cro pressing at corner (requiring physicality)? Surely you jest. Harris patrolling the 2nd level by himself? Please. If someone ran right at him, it would be fine, but if the RB or QB ran away from him, he'd never get to them. Unless Pryor has learned to take better angles, he would be a disaster as the last line of defense. I don't care how fast he is. IMO replace Harris with Pryor or Demario Davis and things are already infinitely better. Put Gilchrist in Milner's spot to cover the TE, and put Milner in Pryor's deep safety role, and it's even better. That still leaves Cro, a non physical corner playing press coverage, which is a problem. If you insist on playing press coverage, then you might have to move Skrine or Milner into Cro's spot, and maybe McDougle into Skrine's spot covering the slot. Perhaps an even better way might be to put Antonio Allen or Jaiquawn Jarrett into Milner's spot to cover TEs, Davis or Pryor in Harris' spot, Milner in Cro's spot, and Gilchrist as the deep safety in Pryor's spot.
None of that changes the fact that we dont have an edge rusher(unless Mauldin becomes that guy). Can we still get pressure from our defensive front? Yes. Can we still blitz and get pressure off the edge? Yes. but none of that has to do with us not having an edge rusher. and edge rusher allows you to get pressure from the QBs abckside WITHOUT HAVING TO COMIT EXTRA RUSHERS. It is alot easier to defend when your DE/OLB can ebat the opposing left tackle off the edge instead of having to send extra bodies at the QB.
Really? Every defense has edge rushers. They are called outside linebackers in a 3-4. OLBs set the edge on running plays and, generally, rush the passer on passing downs. Last year these guys were named Coples, Pace, Babin, to name three.
Nope, I didn't know what he meant. I thought he was literally expressing an ignorance of the position. But do we really need one? we were 5th in the league in sacks last year with what we had and virtually no secondary...two years ago Pace alone had 10 sacks. I think an edge rush can be effective without an "elite" edge rusher, especially if you have a dynamite D-line, which we do.
