It seems like several NFL teams have had trouble defending the no-huddle offense. When you are facing teams like the Pats, Rams, and the Colts sans Collins, you have to prepare for it. Besides just playing better defense, calling timeouts, or faking injury, no one seems to have found any techniques to slow it down this year. I'll be interested to see how the Jets try to handle it with the Patsies. A well-run no huddle has made some defenses look like a chinese fire drill.
I'll be interested in how the Raiders handle it with the Jets which I believe they will employ this week.
I don't like the Jets odds against no huddle. With the man coverage and blitzes on a fair shake of downs the D will get gassed. I feel like you need to drop into cover 2 or cover 3 zone and drop the backers to guard the short passing. Then again.. I'll let Rex Ryan worry about this.
The problem with that is that Brady will pick a zone apart all day. But you are right about them getting gassed with man coverage. I'm like you, that's Rex's problem. Whatever is done, you have to pressure Brady somehow.
Hey Bo I feel bad for derailing your one serious thread of 2011.........sorry. Will this gif make it better?
This is why I hate Schottenheimer, and Rex's inability to fix him. Rex GETS it. More Corners. We have 3 first rd picks playing corner. Most teams go big dollars on DLinemen, Rex likes corners. If the ball is gone in 3 seconds, those DLinemen don't mean shit. Why Rex has not stuck a cleat up Schottenheimers ass is beyond me.
So Schottenheimer can't cover so well............ Gotcha, I was wondering how the hatred for him came up, in a "How Do You Stop the Oppostions No-Huddle" thread. Makes perfect sense..........
You have to cover, but you have to get in his face early too and make him uncomfortable. He's too good at finding the open guy quickly, and there will always be someone that's a little open no matter how well you cover. Its a little bit of both. I'm just glad we have one of the best defensive minds as our coach.
Hobbes managed to get schotty bashing into a thread about stopping the no huddle offense? I'm actually impressed.
Pressure the QB and they wont bother with a hurry up or if they do, it would be more of a problem for them than a help (last Patriots game against the Jets for example).
With the new rules that you can't touch a receiver or look at a QB funny, it's a lot harder to stop the no huddle offense. As others have speculated, the best solution is getting pressure on the QB (which is pretty much the best solution to any defensive problem.) It's also important that a coach not be afraid to burn a timeout if he has to--there's no sense saving it for a hypothetical two minute drill if you're almost guaranteed to give up a score because your defense is gassed/disorganized as a result of a long no huddle drive.
This is tough.......getting on point....for me. It reads like the basics to stop a high powered offense. I don't think it is anything ground breaking. On the fringe of legality, you have to play rougher. Meaning you hit someone you stay on top of them. You have to chip and re route TE's and in general make the O work for everything they get. When you get them on the ground you stay on top till the ref comes in. Obviously you have to get to the QB, put a couple of hits on him and make him get to the huddle slower. Make their entire team get to the line slower. The big thing is the timing, you have to disrupt it both on the plays and the trip back to the huddle. The illegal- Other ways to stop the no huddle is have a designated player to feign injury and what not. That has been done since the no huddle was invented. Basically imo is you have to toughen the game up, if that means school yarding the game, then that is what you have to do. For the most part the teams running no huddle, pass oriented attacks are not the tougher teams. Play them tough, vis-a-vis what the Jets did last year in the playoffs. I think the Jets are one of the few teams that can stop it because of their coverage skills. Anyway that's my .02............
if we cannot fake injuries, just knock someone out on the other team so they take an injury timeout. Send eric smith at woodhead or welker for week 5.
the no huddle offense can sometimes defeat itself ... the key is having the right people on the field
